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A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Aviation

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

July 3, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron and Papua New Guinea PM James Marape meeting

Aviation

PNG prime minister visits France, plans to open Paris embassy

An ATR-72 aircraft from Air Calédonie

Aviation

New Caledonia’s domestic airline AirCal files for bankruptcy

Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile

Aviation

How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ and Australian economies

Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying motu of Tokelau

Aviation

Tokelau airport project scrapped despite multi-million dollar design

Fiji Airways Airbus A330 cabin

Aviation

Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for...

January 17, 2026

Air New Zealand back flying to New Caledonia

Aviation

Air New Zealand resumes Auckland-Nouméa flights after nearly 18-month suspension following...

November 3, 2025

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Aviation

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

July 1, 2025

Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service

Aviation

Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November

May 23, 2025

Solomon Islands passports

Aviation

Solomon Islands tops passport index for region’s global rankings

January 10, 2025

Virgin Australia

Aviation

Virgin Australia confirms ‘serious security incident’ with crew in Fiji

January 2, 2025

A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

Aviation

Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu

December 22, 2024

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Aviation

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

Some of the passengers on the special flight out of New Caledonia

Aviation

NZ’s first New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in Auckland

May 22, 2024

A NZ Defence Force operation begins to uplift New Zealand tourists and visitors stranded by the New Caledonia crisis

Aviation

Plane heading for New Caledonia to bring NZ visitors home

May 21, 2024

Flags of an independent Kanaky fly at a barricade near Nouméa

Aviation

Kiwis trapped in Nouméa: Air NZ won’t fly from New Caledonia...

May 20, 2024

Air New Zealand scheduled Saturday flight to Nouméa's Tontouta International Airport off

Aviation

New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand

May 17, 2024

Celebrating International Women's Day in Papua New Guinea today with an all-women flight crew to Cairns

Aviation

All female Air Niugini crew fly out to Cairns on International...

March 8, 2024

Pilot and author Silva McLeod

Aviation

Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’...

Sri Krishnamurthi -

May 10, 2023

Hostage NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens in new video 260423

Aviation

‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped...

April 26, 2023

NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens held hostage by West Papuan rebels

Aviation

Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says...

April 10, 2023

Ijivitari MP David Arore allegedly abused security guards and airport staff at Buka

Aviation

Bougainville president slams ‘mocking’ by drunken MP over independence

April 4, 2023

New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens, flying for Susi Air, appears in new video 100323

Aviation

Hostage NZ pilot appears in new Papuan rebel video amid ‘don’t...

March 10, 2023

United Liberation Movement for West Papua leader Benny Wenda

Aviation

Wenda calls on West Papuan rebels to release kidnapped NZ pilot

February 21, 2023

Hostage NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens pictured with his armed West Papuan rebel captors

Aviation

Indigenous Papuan negotiators walk to forest hideout to seek release of...

February 17, 2023

New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens taken captive by Papuan rebels

Aviation

Papuan cat-and-mouse over NZ pilot taken captive by ‘freedom’ rebels

February 16, 2023

The Jakarta Post 090223

Aviation

Rescue mission underway for NZ pilot held hostage in Papua, say...

February 9, 2023

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

“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...

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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

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PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

Asia Report

‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

This is a photo of me in the desert in Saudi Arabia 19 years ago

Commentary

Saige England: No judgments, freedom and about rocking the boat

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Asia Report

Palestine advocacy group criticises NZ failure over Gaza human rights test

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Australia

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

EDITOR'S PICKS

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

Asia Report

‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

Asia Report

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

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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 Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

Asia Report

‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits...

A makeshift West Papuan refugee camp in Puncak Regency after dozens of villagers were displaced from their community by armed conflict in February

Asia Report

‘They just have to get out’ – civilians pay the price...