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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

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

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 Women’s Day

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

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

Chaos at Nadzab Airport in Lae, PNG

Aviation

Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off...

February 4, 2022

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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

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

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

Coronavirus

King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade

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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Resigned Tongan Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni

Democracy

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Climate

Vanuatu becomes first country to partner with new UN climate loss...

Gaza stands out as the "most dangerous" region

Asia Report

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Killed environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng

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EDITOR'S PICKS

Lawyer and senior law lecturer Dr Myra Williamson

Asia Report

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Hayat Al-Turki . . . I will show you the photo of my missing brother

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Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved...

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognises the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination

Culture

Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill

The entrance to Regional Processing Centre One

Australia

Nauru-Australia Treaty: Strategic gain or ‘corrupt arrangement’?

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

Fiji's Lautoka Hospital

Fiji

Seven foreigners in Fiji suspected alcohol poisoning case now in Lautoka...

Staff leave the Newshub studio in central Auckland

Australia

RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies

Australia has tightened scrutiny of Israeli soldiers making visa applications over their possible involvement in genocidal acts

Asia Report

Australia denies some Israeli soldiers visas over war crimes – PSNA...

Lawyer and senior law lecturer Dr Myra Williamson

Asia Report

Why is Israel bombing Syria? – ‘because it can get away...