CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia
      Asia Report

      Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

      Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan
      Asia Report

      PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor…

      Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138
      Asia Report

      Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

      The International Court of Justice in The Hague
      Asia Report

      Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on…

      The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm
      Business

      NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Analysis

Analysis

Random
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free
Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its own ‘freedom of seas’ doctrine

APR editor -
July 15, 2026
Hawai'i protest
Analysis

RIMPAC 2020 maritime exercises ‘all at sea’ as virus, protests put squeeze on

"We are all learning lessons about the FijiFirst party (FFP)."
Analysis

Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough

Impact of political and media discourse in their everyday lives
Analysis

‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11

Epidemic Response Committee
Analysis

NZ lockdown – Day 9: How many Covid-19 cases does nation really have?

Noam Chomskyvideo
Analysis

Noam Chomsky: Decades of ‘neoliberal plague’ left US unprepared for coronavirus...

APR editor -
August 2, 2020
0
The Pacific Newsroom
Analysis

Social media ‘bullshit’ threatens coping with covid-19 outbreak in PNG

APR editor -
March 23, 2021
0
The Epstein Files
Analysis

Maher Nazzal: The Epstein Files – the real scandal is the...

APR editor -
February 15, 2026
0
Analysis

The digital media revolution, a free press and student journalism

David Robie -
November 4, 2015
0
Analysis

Indonesia’s tug-of-war: The age of pseudo-military leaders rolls on

APR editor -
April 1, 2017
0
"Chaos in Washington"
Analysis

‘This is a banana republic?’ – the Caribbean reacts to the...

Pacific Media Watch -
January 11, 2021
0
Papuan Governor, Lukas Enembe
Analysis

Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua

APR editor -
March 31, 2022
1
The world spent 40 years building an oil reserves shock absorber for exactly this war
Analysis

The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic...

APR editor -
July 23, 2026
0
1 News Clomar-Brunton poll 220920
Analysis

Bryan Bruce: Poll dancing in NZ election – the choice is...

APR editor -
September 23, 2020
0
Amnesty International’s report comes as multiple conflicts rage across the world
Analysis

Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’

APR editor -
April 22, 2026
0
Police clearing away the protesters in Parliament grounds
Analysis

The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance...

APR editor -
February 23, 2022
0
President Trump's obsession with Kharg island
Analysis

Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster

APR editor -
April 1, 2026
0
Former Fiji Times editor-in-chief Netani Rika
Analysis

Lice Movono: Hopes for the return of press freedom in Fiji

Pacific Media Watch -
February 10, 2023
0
Striking Victoria University of Wellington staff and supporters protest over wages and conditions last October
Analysis

Starved of funds and vision, struggling universities put NZ’s entire research...

APR editor -
June 22, 2023
1
New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
Analysis

Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face...

APR editor -
November 18, 2025
0
Repression is a characteristic of Iranian government policy, but not the only characteristic
Analysis

Ian Powell: Iran, US imperialism and the New Zealand lapdog

APR editor -
March 20, 2026
0
Analysis

Beijing’s ‘invisible hand’ felt as Hong Kong press freedom declines

Dominic Pink -
June 16, 2016
1
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu "erased" Palestine
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Trump and foolish old men who redraw maps

APR editor -
February 10, 2025
0
Climate action
Analysis

New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining...

APR editor -
November 9, 2020
0
"Genocide in Gaza" . . . New Zealand is swimming against the tide of world opinion
Analysis

Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide...

APR editor -
February 3, 2024
0
Analysis

2018 Fiji elections – the ‘fake news’ catchphrase of this poll...

Sri Krishnamurthi -
November 19, 2018
1
Pacific shipping corridors
Analysis

China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

APR editor -
September 4, 2023
0
123...49Page 1 of 49

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan
Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)
Democracy

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque
Asia Report

Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque,...

The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm
Business

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

EDITOR'S PICKS

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia
Asia Report

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan
Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138
Asia Report

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

The International Court of Justice in The Hague
Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia
Asia Report

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan
Asia Report

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138
Asia Report

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

The International Court of Justice in The Hague
Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

Editor's Picks

US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?

July 27, 2026
Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor...

July 27, 2026
Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026
The International Court of Justice in The Hague

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on...

July 26, 2026
The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

July 25, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

A Nile crocodile, the creature to be deployed in Israel's Ketziot Prison moat

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

July 22, 2026
The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years

July 25, 2026
Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque,...

July 24, 2026
Dr Anna Naupa

Vanuatu govt blasts chiefs’ demand to replace first female MSG head...

July 24, 2026
The Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership

July 23, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8432
  • Politics6248
  • Human Rights4879
  • Syndicate4770
  • Global4186
  • New Zealand3675
  • Indigenous3099
  • RNZ Pacific2663
  • Media2362
  • Pacific Media Watch2151
  • Asia Report2137
  • Democracy2065
  • Security1984
  • Military1894
  • Justice1829
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz