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Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

Commentary

Saige England: People, environment win DP World showdown – but port predator fight goes on

July 30, 2026

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in Palestine’s West Bank

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 case

An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

Asia Report

Human Rights Watch report says Indonesia is silencing environmental activists in Papua

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

July 30, 2026

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?

July 27, 2026

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

Asia Report

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

July 22, 2026

Filipino National Bureau of Investigation Director Melvin Matibag takes an oath before testifying

Asia Report

Sara Duterte impeachment trial – Matibag says no hitman yet, but...

July 22, 2026

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

Asia Report

Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

July 31, 2026

Reverend James Bhagwan, general secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches

Asia Report

Nauru’s government announces plans for embassy in Israel

July 23, 2026

Papuan activist and former political prisoner Filep Karma

Human Rights

Filep Karma: A Papuan human rights hero and huge loss...

November 2, 2022

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Asia Report

Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal...

July 22, 2026

7amleh's Nadim Nashif

Asia Report

Meta censoring Palestinian content – and here’s proof of ‘platformicide’

Pacific Media Watch -

August 1, 2026

If long-besieged Iran -- the world's 51st-ranked economy -- was able to force the Americans to sue for peace

Asia Report

Eugene Doyle: Overmatch – why the US will lose a war...

July 10, 2026

Disappeared Pesta Babi star Yasinta Moiwend - Mama Sinta

Asia Report

Indonesia has ‘kidnapped’ Pesta Babi star to cover up ecocide, claims...

June 3, 2026

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel

July 25, 2026

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

July 20, 2026

The packed public meeting in opposition to the DP World

Asia Report

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people...

July 18, 2026

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Pacific Media Watch -

July 5, 2026

In her evidence before the Bondi Royal Commission, the antisemitism envoy Jillian Segel claimed

Asia Report

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 17, 2026

Indonesian military forces on patrol in the Oksop regency

Asia Report

Indonesia defends high number of military deployed in Papua

July 6, 2026

RIMPAC 2026

Asia Report

RIMPAC 2026: Part 1 – World’s biggest naval games a dress...

July 6, 2026

How global news channel Al Jazeera reported the death of Pope Francis at 88

Asia Report

Pope Francis dies one day after first post-hospital public appearance and...

April 21, 2025

PNAG's Joey Tau in Honiara

Analysis

Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?

July 17, 2026

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh who nationalised his country's oil

Asia Report

This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...

June 26, 2026

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral

Asia Report

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2026

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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

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

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

Asia Report

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...

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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

Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Business

Christchurch City Holdings rejects DP World-backed proposal to take over Lyttelton...

American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

Climate

Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

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?

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

Asia Report

Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

EDITOR'S PICKS

American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

Climate

Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

Asia Report

Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

Decolonisation

NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Editor's Picks

Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns

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

American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

Climate

Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

Asia Report

Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...

Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

Decolonisation

NZ tribunal finds Treaty reforms breach Te Tiriti principles, prejudice Māori,...

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Editor's Picks

Samoa face World Rugby ban over PM’s ‘political madness’, opposition warns