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
Sunday, October 18, 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
    • MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives
      Australia

      Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

      Fiji's Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Mara
      Culture

      Fijian chief warns coup immunity debate must address inequality and social…

      "The intifada is global now"
      Asia Report

      Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard…

      A protester ahead of the Global March for Palestine up Auckland's Queen Street
      Asia Report

      Free Palestine Party slams ‘shameful’ NZ stance at UN, calls for…

      Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province
      Crime

      Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police…

  • 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
Chinese oil supplies from Iran in Washington's sights
Analysis

Trump’s naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz actually targets China

APR editor -
April 16, 2026
Analysis

Crisis? What crisis? A new PNG prime minister might not signal much change

A ni-Vanuatu family at the Blacksands community in Port Vila on Efate Island in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Kevin
Analysis

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now

Pictures of slain IRGC commanders and the Islamic Republic’s founder
Analysis

Why the Middle East fears a US-Israel attack on Iran

Analysis

Obama’s legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs in the balance

Analysis

West Papua: Five facts about Indonesia’s ‘dark, dirty secret’

APR editor -
September 21, 2017
1
Analysis

Autocracy strikes back: Media freedom under siege in Arabia

APR editor -
July 11, 2017
0
Once you recognise this manipulated media environment
Analysis

Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right

Pacific Media Watch -
February 27, 2025
0
Manila lockdown
Analysis

State must fund urgent Filipino health, social needs now, say economists

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -
March 23, 2020
0
Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe
Analysis

Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta...

APR editor -
January 13, 2023
1
Pacific Islands climate justice protesters among those demonstrating at The Hague
Analysis

Deep freeze: Pacific ‘alarm’ as Trump leaves US diplomats with little...

APR editor -
January 29, 2025
0
"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades
Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

APR editor -
May 23, 2026
0
Analysis

NZ Herald launches premium paywall – how will it impact on...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 1, 2019
0
President Donald Trump
Analysis

Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire

APR editor -
January 22, 2025
0
Rallies spread around the world in support of Occupied Palestine's cause for freedom
Analysis

Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for...

APR editor -
October 15, 2023
0
Maher Nazzal
Analysis

Maher Nazzal: I walked through Palestine

APR editor -
June 3, 2026
0
Analysis

Connecting the dots – Pacific disasters, cyclones, climate featured in latest...

Pacific Journalism Review -
July 20, 2018
0
Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

APR editor -
April 29, 2026
0
NZ climate action protest
Analysis

Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’

APR editor -
February 3, 2021
0
Analysis

Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result

David Robie -
November 8, 2018
0
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis
Analysis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 12, 2026
0
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers
Analysis

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

APR editor -
January 25, 2024
0
New Zealand's government and its sycophantic media need more time to argue about this very "complex" Gaza genocide
Analysis

Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...

Pacific Media Watch -
August 17, 2025
0
Analysis

Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms

APR editor -
October 25, 2018
0
Press TV journalist Hadi Hoteit reporting in southern Lebanon
Analysis

The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media...

Pacific Media Watch -
June 29, 2026
0
Red Crescent rescue workers recover bodies of the 15 Palestinian ambulance and first responder crews killed by Israeli forces
Analysis

The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows

APR editor -
April 7, 2025
0
Analysis

No progress on press freedom, impunity under Jokowi’s watch

Pacific Media Watch -
February 10, 2019
0
123...52Page 1 of 52

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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

Masked Kumul 23 elite police tactical force members
Crime

Eight dead in September violence at Papua New Guinea’s troubled Porgera

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court
Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

The Global March for Palestine in Auckland
Asia Report

What is happening to Palestine is the tip of the spear...

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province
Crime

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

EDITOR'S PICKS

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives
Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

Fiji's Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Mara
Culture

Fijian chief warns coup immunity debate must address inequality and social...

"The intifada is global now"
Asia Report

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

A protester ahead of the Global March for Palestine up Auckland's Queen Street
Asia Report

Free Palestine Party slams ‘shameful’ NZ stance at UN, calls for...

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

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives
Australia

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

"The intifada is global now"
Asia Report

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

A protester ahead of the Global March for Palestine up Auckland's Queen Street
Asia Report

Free Palestine Party slams ‘shameful’ NZ stance at UN, calls for...

Round 1 to the PNG Chiefs in NZ High Court
Australia

High Court declines NZ Rugby’s bid for interim injunction on PNG...

Editor's Picks

MEAA members at the ABC have overwhelmingly backed a motion defending the rights of elected union representatives

Australian journalist and unionist threatened with disciplinary action over opinion article

October 18, 2026
Fiji's Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Mara

Fijian chief warns coup immunity debate must address inequality and social...

October 18, 2026
"The intifada is global now"

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

October 17, 2026
A protester ahead of the Global March for Palestine up Auckland's Queen Street

Free Palestine Party slams ‘shameful’ NZ stance at UN, calls for...

October 17, 2026
Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

October 16, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province

Call for criminal groups to be declared ‘terrorists’, as PNG police...

October 16, 2026
"The intifada is global now"

Eight ways to spot toxic hasbara trolls and being a keyboard...

October 17, 2026
No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

October 14, 2026
The Global March for Palestine in Auckland

What is happening to Palestine is the tip of the spear...

October 12, 2026
The MV Awka

Stranded Solomon Islands ferry passengers adrift at sea brought on shore

October 12, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8667
  • Politics6500
  • Human Rights5096
  • Syndicate5031
  • Global4423
  • New Zealand3801
  • Indigenous3293
  • RNZ Pacific2766
  • Media2471
  • Pacific Media Watch2331
  • Asia Report2268
  • Democracy2233
  • Security2067
  • Military2013
  • Justice1994
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