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New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need

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Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

July 24, 2024

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Ankit Panda says it is crucial smaller states and Pacific nations concerned about potential nuclear conflic

South Korea

Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate

Performers from the Diversity Stage at the Auckland Polyfest 2024

South Korea

Auckland Polyfest 2024: Vibrant showcase of cultural diversity, youth empowerment

Since becoming established in Fiji in 2014, the South Korean-founded cult Grace Road has expanded

South Korea

Korean doomsday sect Grace Road saga deepens with leader in Fiji custody

Fiji Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua (left) and Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim

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Fiji immigration officials detain Grace Road cult leader Daniel Kim

Grace Road cult court order

South Korea

Interpol ‘red notices’ against 7 Grace Road cult figures, but court...

September 8, 2023

It is important politically and economically for New Zealand to have trading relations with both G7 and developing countries

South Korea

Ian Powell: Context of the ‘New Washington Consensus’ and China ‘threat’...

August 29, 2023

Protesters against the Fukushima wastewater dump in Aiuckland yesterday

South Korea

‘The ocean is suffering’ – protesters fume over NZ silence on...

August 26, 2023

Husband and wife duo Lauren and Matt Barus perform under the stage name Terrible Sons

South Korea

First-ever recipients of ‘outstanding’ Asian music funding unveiled

July 3, 2023

Australian anti-nuclear activist Nat Lowrey (left) joined activists from Japan, Tonga and Fiji in Sapporo, Japan,

South Korea

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests

June 29, 2023

Police and forensic experts load the two bodies of children into a vehicle at a Clendon Park property

South Korea

Police arrest woman in South Korea over NZ child bodies in...

September 15, 2022

Peace Action cover detail

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New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 12, 2022

Shin Ok-ju, founder of Grace Road Church

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Senior figures question Fiji government’s close links with ‘doomsday’ cult

July 29, 2022

Australia’s aid to the Pacific has been "greenwashed"

South Korea

Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’

November 4, 2021

Goro stand-off

South Korea

Tension rises in New Caledonia over Brazilian miner Vale’s bail out...

December 11, 2020

South Korea

‘Outsider’ voice films open new storytelling spaces, says academic

February 26, 2020

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Fisherman kept in ‘abject’ conditions at sea repatriated from Fiji, says...

Rahul Bhattarai -

September 22, 2018

South Korea

Meet Sia, a Kiwi Korean culture and social media lover

Leilani Sitagata -

September 4, 2018

South Korea

‘Sick joke’, threats cited in Asia-Pacific declining media freedom summit

July 10, 2018

South Korea

Korea, Iran in with a shot to challenge Australia, NZ for...

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

August 17, 2017

South Korea

Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

August 16, 2017

South Korea

Media freedom: A nice RSF postcard from the Pacific, but not...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 20, 2016

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

BEARING WITNESS

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

It has been 40 years since the Rongelap people had to leave their homes due to nuclear fallout in May 1985

Civil Society

40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against...

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

Analysis

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) Mobile Yonif 1 Marine Task Force for Indonesian-PNG Border Security soldiers

Asia Report

Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan

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Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at...

EDITOR'S PICKS

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific

Decolonisation

While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for...

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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

A truck laden with humanitarian aid for Gaza

Asia Report

PSNA condemns NZ’s ‘indifference to mass murder’ as Israel blocks aid...

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan

Asia Report

Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at...