A national election will go ahead this week despite a devastating earthquake in the capital Port Vila last month.

The earthquake has exposed the consequences of the mass poverty and lack of basic infrastructure endemic throughout the ...

Voting began on Thursday to elect a new government in Vanuatu, a month after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific ...

Vanuatu holds snap election a month after destructive earthquake - Vanuatu has voted in a snap election amidst the upheaval ...

New Zealand’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant post-quake hazard. A tropical low in the Coral Sea is expected to move into ...

Experts from the China Earthquake Administration check a house on Wednesday that was damaged in a recent earthquake in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The administration sent four engineering experts to ...

PORT VILA: A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday (Dec 22) but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked ...

Bill Hoffman and his wife Wendy, who had just retired after 43 years as an early childhood educator, were in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre ... Island Resort just off Port Vila and were left stranded ...

Kiwi Stu McKewen who has lived in Vanuatu for almost 20 years says Port Vila looks like "a bit of a bomb site ... summer pruning to contact their families back home. Its people and culture manager ...

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