Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Stephen Coates PORT VILA (Reuters) - The sprinkling of fairy lights on the roadside was the only sign of life as darkness ...

A different kind of bar: Can an alcohol-free bar be relaxing? It’s the effort of the Vanuatu Kava Bar to prove just that. Photos by Max Cooper The Vanuatu Kava Bar has moved to a new location at 15 ...

It may look unappetizing and taste terrible, but many ni-Vanuatu regard kava’s warm, soporific embrace as a gift from the gods. Long a staple of South Pacific island rituals, the narcotic wrung from ...

The Vanuatu Kava Bar has moved to a new location on Eagle Street next to Limones and will soon offer lunch, says owner Andrew Procyk. A grand-opening celebration is planned for Friday, Feb. 10. “We ...

I recently drank some of the interesting root-based drink kava on the Pacific island of Vanuatu. I’m happy to report that it had some odd effects. What exactly did it do to my brain? • Because your ...

At a kava symposium held in Fiji last week, a main concern was Vanuatu’s export of a specific variation of the intoxicating pepper root called tudei (or as commonly spelled, “two-day”) kava. Experts ...

Kiribati was the world's largest consumer of Vanuatu kava in 2024. The Vanuatu Daily Post reported that last year the country imported 280 metric tonnes of kava from Vanuatu. Michael Louze, former ...

But while Tonga and Vanuatu have moved to commercialise and mechanise their kava farming, Fiji is still largely relying on ...

PORT VILA (Reuters) - The sprinkling of fairy lights on the roadside was the only sign of life as darkness descended and a curfew began in Vanuatu's shattered capital, Port Vila, in the aftermath of ...