COVID-19 cases have increased in a number of Pacific countries, whilst Fiji looks to revive its tourism industry. Hugh McClure writes.

The ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh has been hard hit by COVID-19, and companies and government must do more to protect its four million workers from being left behind, Shahidur Rahman and Sifat Islam Ishty write.

Contact-tracing apps, testing, and lockdowns have been used in different contexts to fight COVID-19, but without building the social capital needed to implement policy, containing the virus would be impossible, Stuti Rawat and Alfred Wu Muluan write.

Are the government’s changes to university degree funding about getting graduates job-ready, or hostility towards the humanities?

Australia Pacific Security College (PSC) Director Meg Keen reports on security concerns arising from discussions with some of the regional leaders of the Pacific and the Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, the Hon Alex Hawke.

Australia risks losing billions in revenue, as well as its international reputation, if it continues to ignore the plight of 500,000 international students, Tahmina Rashid writes.