All Stories: Pacific

MEXICO CITY: The Mexican navy announced Friday it had seized more than 8.3 tonnes of drugs in the Pacific Ocean, a record for a...

SEOUL: North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, as the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un warned...

An 83-year-old yachtsman arrived in Japan early Saturday morning after a solo, non-stop trip across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person ever to achieve...

An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, triggering a tsunami warning for several South Pacific island nations, with footage on social media showing...

Tens of thousands of people remain homeless in Vanuatu a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold pummelled the impoverished Pacific nation, smashing houses and destroying crops.

A British solo around-the-world sailor whose yacht was crippled in a ferocious storm as she crossed the Pacific has stabilized her battered vessel and...

MEXICO CITY: A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico late Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, with seismologists warning of a tsunami of...

BEIJING: China's navy plans a training exercise in the Pacific that would include for the first time its sole aircraft carrier, state media reported --...

WELLINGTON: Polynesian activists have accused entertainment giant Disney of promoting "brown face" with a Halloween costume allowing children to dress up as the tattooed Pacific demi-god Maui.

SHANGHAI: China is looking to exploit the Northwest Passage, the fabled short-cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic, state-run media said Wednesday, with the world's biggest trader in goods publishing a shipping guide to the route.

WASHINGTON: Twelve Pacific rim countries sealed the deal Monday on creating the world's largest free trade area, delivering President Barack Obama a major policy triumph, a US Official said.

KARACHI: Cathay Pacific has announced to cease its operations in Karachi, after the audacious militants’ attack on city airport which killed over two dozen people...