Solomon Islands plans due diligence tour on Taiwan ties
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 24 June 2019 (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands, one of Taiwan’s remaining allies in the Pacific, will send a delegation to study Chinese aid in neighboring countries as it considers a potential diplomatic switch to Beijing. |
The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
| | LONDON, UK, 24 June 2019 (BBC) - Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American. |
Huge migrant influx scares off Greek island tourists
| | VATHY, Greece, 23 June 2019 (DW) - Tourists are avoiding the Greek island of Samos due to the shocking situation at the Vathy migrant camp, which has grown into a sprawling settlement. Locals and asylum-seekers feel authorities have abandoned them. |
Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom
| | NADI, Fiji, 23 June 2019 (Guardian) - It is the drug route you’ve never heard of: a multi-billion dollar operation involving cocaine and methamphetamines being packed into the hulls of sailing boats in the US and Latin America and transported to Australia via south Pacific islands more often thought of as holiday destinations than narcotics hubs. |
Vanuatu to ban disposable nappies in plastics crackdown
| | LONDON, UK, 22 June 2019 (Guardian) - It is but a tiny speck in the Pacific Ocean, but the island state of Vanuatu is leading the global fight against plastic waste. The nation, which has already introduced one of the toughest single-use plastic bans in the world, is believed to be the first to propose a ban on disposable nappies, to be phased in at the end of this year. |
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GREENING THE ISLANDS |
 | | Observatory Island meeting 23-24 April, 2019, Helgoland, Germany |
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ISLAND UND HALLIG KONFERENZ |
| | First German Green Island conference 25-26 April, 2019, Helgoland, Germany |
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RETI |
| | Symposium promoting intercultural dialogue and social cohesion on islands 29 April-2 May 2019, Canary Islands |
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PRP |
| | Pacific Resilience Meeting 1-3 May, 2019, Suva, Fiji |
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CLEAN ENERGY FOR EU ISLANDS |
| | 3rd Clean Energy for EU Islands Forum 14-16 May, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden |
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SOCIETY FOR ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | Third Island Biology conference 8-13 July, 2019, Reunion |
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SICRI |
| | 15th ISIC conference Island Festivals & Music Tourism 9-13 July, 2019, Kingston, Jamaica |
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SCB |
| | 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology 21-25 July, 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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CEST |
| | 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 4-7 Sept, 2019, Rhodes, Greece |
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NAF & CRRF |
| | Sustainable Communities conference 1-4 Oct, 2019, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Islands in the Belt and Road Initiative conference 9-10 Nov, 2019, Fuzhou, China |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 10-21 June, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 22-26 June, 2020, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS conference 30 Nov-3 Dec, 2020, Nuuk, Greenland |
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