Lambourne said the appointment had been uncontroversial until his wife, Tessie Lambourne, a native of Kiribati, became the country’s opposition leader in 2020. After that, ...

Matthieu Rytz is a filmmaker and visual storyteller. The Republic of Kiribati — a nation of islands and atolls in the central Pacific — is facing annihilation. The rising ocean has broken ...

SYDNEY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a ...

People in Kiribati went to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government’s stronger ties ...

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When Kiribati broke ties with Taipei in 2019, it was a blow to Taiwan, despite the Pacific island nation’s small stature on the international stage. Taiwan had already lost six diplomatic allies ...

Not everyone in Kiribati is grateful to Mr Tong. Many residents of the sprawling nation — one of the poorest in the world — refuse to accept that Kiribati is gone. "When we talk about ...

South Tarawa, August 3, 2012 – A new World Bank report says that three quarters of the world’s population now have a mobile phone. But in the Pacific, one of the world’s most remote regions, many ...

People in Kiribati went to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government’s stronger ties ...

SYDNEY, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is moving towards authoritarianism, its former president said in an interview on Wednesday, after the government suspended all ...

Kiribati (pronounced Keer-uh-boss) is a country unique for many reasons. It's isolated, it consists of 33 low-lying islands and it holds the biggest water-to-land ratio in the world.. Though ...