Monthly Archives: November 2024

Less than 48 hours before election day, Donald Trump told a rally of his supporters that he wouldn’t mind if someone shot the journalists in front of him

ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...
Post-mortems on the US presidential election

RNZ Pacific The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, 78, returned to the...
Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross received the Nuclear-free Future Award in New York on 28 November 2023

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today...
This "Pied Piper" cartoon illustrating this commentary was drawn by Rod Emmerson.

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis This morning, I am afraid. I am very afraid. I fear that by the time I go to bed democracy in the...
The moment former US president Donald Trump declared victory at Palm Beach

Asia Pacific Report As Americans voted for their next president, Israel has continued its attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Republican presidential...
Te Ipukarea Society's Kelvin Passfield

By Losirene Lacanivalu of the Cook Islands News The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections...
US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump

PMN Pacific Mornings With Election Day for one of the most consequential United States presidential races in recent history underway, Pasifika communities on both sides...
Republican Kimberlyn-King-Hinds

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Kimberlyn King-Hind, from the CNMI Republican Party, won the race for the CNMI's lone...
US Vice-President Kamala Harris

Pacific Media Watch The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...
Despite saying multiple times that she and Biden “have been working around the clock” for a ceasefire in Gaza, the truth is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have not secured a ceasefire simply because they do not want one

COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins She made it clear in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, again at her televised debate...
Fijian journalists undertake a two-day digital media workshop in Suva

By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring...
Papuan People’s Solidarity members protest in Sorong last month against President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to resume a transmigration programme

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia,...
New Zealand protesters in support of Palestine, Lebanon and Sudan at Te Komititanga Square

Asia Pacific Report The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...
The People's Daily delegation being welcomed in Fiji

By Charlene Lanyon in Suva A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...
US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with...
The Al Jazeera Six journalists

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel’s deadly siege on northern Gaza has entered a 30th day. Early week, the World Health Organisation managed to deliver some...
Island Times publisher Leilani Reklai

Pacific Media Watch The Palau Media Council has condemned a political lawsuit against the publisher of the Island Times as an "assault on press freedom"...
Palau’s Minister of Finance Kaleb Udui Jr

By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Palau’s largest newspaper is being sued for defamation by the company of President Surangel Whipps Jr's father, just days ahead...
Cook Islands PM Mark Brown

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple "black and...
A photo being shared on social media of a Lebanese journalist with his blood-type listed on his safety jacket

Pacific Media Watch Another Palestinian journalist, Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, has been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, confirms...
The Philippine Supreme Court in Padre Faura, Manila

By Jairo Bolledo in Manila The Philippine Supreme Court has granted temporary protection to an environmental activist abducted in Pangasinan earlier this year. In its resolution...