New Zealand will fund a multi-million dollar programme aimed at getting more children in Pacific island countries to play sport.

Authorities in Fiji are assessing the damage after the most powerful cyclone in the Pacific nation's history, which left one person dead.

Scientists say they have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.

Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg begins his bid to cross the Pacific, from China to Hawaii, in the zero-fuel Solar Impulse aeroplane.

Aid is beginning to arrive in Vanuatu after the Pacific island nation was hit by a cyclone which President Baldwin Lonsdale described as a "monster".

SUNSILK celebrated the launching of its new shampoo, Sunsilk Black Shine, in four major cities of the country (Bogra, Rajshahi, Khulna and Narayanganj) from 22 December to 28 December, 2014.