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The refurbishment included 16 buildings, which include 16 science labs, 24 classrooms, one library, a computer lab, dormitories, staff house and eight teachers' facilities.

A new ADB brief offers a series of recommendations to help make this growth sustainable.

CLIMATE change is making people hungry – with nearly 100 million people across the world needing humanitarian food aid because of climate shocks last year – and a growing number of people are malnourished...

Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry specifically tailored and facilitated the training according to the identified organizational needs.

A government spokesman said a second push of dry rations has been delivered to Maewo last week.

PM Ardern said the security declaration addresses new challenges for the region, including cybercrime and trans-national crime.

The Boe Declaration expands the concept of security to include human security, environmental and resource security, as well as transnational crime and cyber security.

THE government has banned sand mining at Mele Beach and Teouma Bay. The total ban was imposed earlier this month by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister Alfred Maoh. It has now been gazetted. The total, indefinite ban is to be enforced by police who now have the power to arrest anyone removing sand from those two locations.

It is now an offence to swim in the designated areas which could incur a fine of VT one million or two years imprisonment.

The Vanuatu Independent news has received reports of many landslides and building destruction as a result of this earthquake, which struck about 9.30am.