Yearly Archives: 2024

Designer Del Abcede at the media crush in last month's 30th anniversary celebration of Pacific Journalism Review

COMMENTARY: By David Robie in Devpolicy Blog Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable...
Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut...
Tuvalu delegates Monise Laafai and Demi Afasene

SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica The obscure UN organisation attempting to set rules for the exploitation of deep-sea metals is facing a...
By killing the top Palestinian negotiator, Israel delivered a final and decisive message that Israel remains invested in violence, and in nothing else.

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s...
Publisher NZME admits the editorials fell short of "standards"

RNZ News Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and...
Kanak great chief Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Kanak great chief has announced his resignation from New Caledonia's customary Senate. Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu once...
Momentum is growing against the "destructive" deep sea mining industry

Asia Pacific Report Tuvalu has added its voice to the growing tide in the Pacific against deep sea mining, highlighting the momentum against this destructive...
Killed Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul

Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the Gaza...
Assassinated Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh

The Palestine Chronicle Ismail Haniyeh,  a prominent Palestinian political leader and the head of Hamas’ political bureau, has been assassinated today in an Israeli airstrike...
More than 70 people died in tribal fighting in the PNG Highlands in February 2024

Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The nauseating stench of...
Housing structures on FSM's remote atoll Kapingamarangi

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Journalist The Chief Administrator of the Federated States of Micronesia's most remote island is calling on senators in the Congress...
An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the...
A police patrol in the PNG capital of Port Moresby

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea police have arrested five people in connection with the brutal attacks in Angoram district that left...
Those killed by the Golan Heights blast last Saturday are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens

Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to...
All smiles . . . Kara Ravulo in action at a Fijian Drua rugby union match

By Paige Schouw, Queensland University of Technology Kara Ravulo was halfway through her university studies when her father became sick, ultimately leading her to defer...
An aerial view of New Caledonia's Koniambo (KNS) mine site

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's mothballed nickel plant in Koniambo (north of the main island of Grande Terre) has...
Fijiana lost 14-17 to Canada

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist The Fijiana women's sevens rugby team have lost both pool matches at the Paris Olympics today and...
Names on the Wall of Shame

The fifth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last...
Opposition Labour Party MP David Parker

By David Robie Former New Zealand attorney-general David Parker spoke on day 295 of Israel' genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today, condemning the National-led...
President Dr Hilda Heine . . . the region "must draw on the resourcefulness of Pacific women"

The fourth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this week. SPECIAL...
France’s Antoine Dupont races away from the Fiji defence

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist in Paris France has claimed their first Olympic Games sevens rugby gold medal with a 28-7 win...
The Aranui, Tahiti's floating Olympic village and hotel for the surfing event

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As French Polynesia's Olympic surfing competition began this weekend, it will be the only event to...