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Air New Zealand back flying to New Caledonia

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

November 3, 2025

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

Hostage NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens in new video 260423

Aviation

‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped NZ pilot in new West Papua video

Pro-independence Papuan rebels fighters take a NZ pilot hostage

Aviation

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

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

Solomon Islands passports

Aviation

Solomon Islands tops passport index for region’s global rankings

January 10, 2025

United Liberation Movement for West Papua leader Benny Wenda

Aviation

Wenda calls on West Papuan rebels to release kidnapped NZ pilot

February 21, 2023

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

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

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

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

Aviation

The wanted man, the CIA, the Russians and a Tongan king’s...

March 29, 2019

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

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

Digital certificates

Aviation

How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people...

March 6, 2021

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

A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

Aviation

Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu

December 22, 2024

Aviation

Air NZ covid case not linked to New Zealand genomes –...

November 26, 2020

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

Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service

Aviation

Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November

May 23, 2025

Senior Commander Benny Prabowo

Aviation

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

February 9, 2023

MAF missionary plane

Aviation

Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 16, 2021

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 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

Papuan pilot Nickson Stevi Yikwa

Aviation

Papuan student accomplishes first commercial pilot licence in NZ

March 30, 2021

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

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

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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

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...

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?

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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

A 2017 constitutional amendment still guarantees individuals freedom of religion, belief and worship in Sāmoa

Culture

Mixed reactions over Samoan PM’s proposal to ban non-Christian religions

The Sydney Harbour Bridge "March for Humanity" on 3 August 2025

Analysis

Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t

Venezuelans mobilise in Caracas against US violent aggression and abductions this week

Analysis

Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications...

Sāmoan Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt

Global

Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy

EDITOR'S PICKS

French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

Decolonisation

FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New...

Adelaide Writers' Week Festival Board members who resigned

Australia

Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum

"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships"

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror

A potential pathway for transformative change in Indonesia, aiming to forge a new social contract for Papuans

Analysis

Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation

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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

French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

Decolonisation

FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New...

Iranian security forces keep watch on a rally in Tehran.

Asia Report

Israel tries to drag US into ‘fighting wars on its behalf,’...

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston

Global

Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson

ICE agents in Minneapolis after the shooting of Renee Good last week

Asia Report

From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent...