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

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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

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

Flags of an independent Kanaky fly at a barricade near Nouméa

Aviation

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

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

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

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

February 9, 2023

Pro-independence fighters from the Highlands-based Defence Region Command of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). Image: TPNPB/RNZ Pacific

Aviation

Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ...

February 9, 2023

Senior Commander Benny Prabowo

Aviation

Indonesian security forces ‘have no idea’ where NZ pilot hostage is

February 9, 2023

A Susi Air Cessna similar to the one seized in Nduga pictured preparing for takeoff

Aviation

NZ Papua hostage: Pilots warned to take precautions in ‘danger’ zone

February 8, 2023

Pro-independence Papuan rebels fighters take a NZ pilot hostage

Aviation

Papuan rebels seize NZ pilot hostage, set local plane on fire,...

February 7, 2023

Association of South Pacific Airlines (ASPA) president George Faktaufon

Aviation

Fiji ‘bully of the region’ under former government, claims airlines chief

January 14, 2023

Stranded passengers at the capital Port Moresby's Jacksons Airport

Aviation

Stranded PNG air travellers angered at government’s lack of intervention

January 7, 2023

A "stop racial discrimination" banner at Magenta-Noumea Airport

Aviation

Ongoing union strikes disrupt more domestic flights in New Caledonia

August 16, 2022

Some of the Papuan students in New Zealand with the graduating pilots from Ardmore Flying School

Aviation

Papuan advocacy group calls for New Zealand scholarship to aid students

August 15, 2022

Missionary pilot Anton Lutz

Aviation

Break this cycle of sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea

August 3, 2022

PNG Post-Courier 8062022

Aviation

PNG police brand Mt Hagen airport sabotage as ‘act of terrorism’

June 8, 2022

Twenty years on for Boris Léontieff

Aviation

Commemoration held in Tahiti for politicians on a ‘vanished’ flight

May 24, 2022

Omicron outbreak

Aviation

US warns against travel to NZ due to rising level of...

March 8, 2022

CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

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

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IPI protests against Israeli targeting of Al Jazeera media freedom

Asia Report

Media watchdog condemns Israel’s ‘harassment’ move to strip Al Jazeera journalists...

Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

Asia Report

Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for...

Nickel Prony Resources mining site in New Caledonia

Business

SA company Sibaneye-Stillwater eyes New Caledonia nickel mining plant

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Decolonisation

Papua New Guinea celebrates 49 years of independence from Australia

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Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism

Analysis

Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...

The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

Decolonisation

French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’

Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

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Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for...

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Asia Report

Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels

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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

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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

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Under the old regime, press barons, from William Randolph Hearst to Rupert Murdoch, at least pretended they were committed to truth-telling journalism

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Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...

Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono

Crime

Discrimination faced by indigenous Papuans ‘isn’t something new’, says disturbing new...

2000 coup leader George Speight announcing at Parliament House in Suva on May 28 that he planned to rule Fiji by decree

Crime

Fiji 2000 coup leader George Speight granted presidential pardon

The two latest shootings in Kanaky New Caledonia bring the number of deaths in the Pacific territory to 13

Decolonisation

French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’