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A mob set fire to these vehicles during PNG Energy Minister Saki Soloma's visit

Crime

PNG’s energy minister, supporters flee for their lives in elections attack

June 1, 2022

A My Lai massacre display in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum

Crime

The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten

Crime

Philippine clergy appeal for justice over assassination of retired priest

The hotel room lab raided by PNG police

Crime

Undercover narcotics team seizes drugs, illegal guns in PNG hotel

PNG Prime Minister James Marape shared this photo on Facebook of Professor Bryce Barker and one of his research colleagues after their release

Crime

‘Thank God’ says PM Marape in social media post about 3 freed hostages

Fiji police officers Corporal Gerry McGoon (on left) and PC Sevania Manulevu on foot patrol along Victoria Parade in Suva

Crime

The Fiji Times: We need to work together in the war...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 10, 2023

Police Commissioner David Manning (right) escorts the the three last hostages to be released by the gunmen

Crime

Nightmare over for final 3 PNG freed hostages – police hunt...

February 27, 2023

Crime

FSM, Marshall Islands envoys seek details on police-involved shootings

July 3, 2017

Matu Tangi Matua Reid

Crime

Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu...

July 20, 2023

How the New Zealand Herald featured the assassination attempt on former President Donald

Crime

Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2024

Porgera tribal fighting at weekend

Crime

Fierce fighting continues in PNG’s Porgera with death toll reaching 17

May 9, 2022

PNG Defence Force soldiers keep watch after running riot in the Port Moresby suburb of Boroko

Crime

PNG soldiers shock with Boroko street takeover in security uproar

March 11, 2023

Threat to PNG justice

Crime

PNG police investigate bomb threat at Goroka courthouse in Highlands

March 12, 2024

Human Rights

Aus ban on refugees goes against international law, says NGO

November 1, 2016

PNG Police Commissioner David Manning

Crime

PNG police authorised to use lethal force with ‘domestic terrorist’ kidnappers...

May 14, 2025

Al Jazeera honouring its killed journalists in a news cast today

Crime

MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime

Pacific Media Watch -

August 13, 2025

Eyes of Fire

Crime

Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

Pacific Media Watch -

June 25, 2020

Joseph Auga Matamata aka Viliamu Samu in court

Crime

Hawke’s Bay enslaver and human trafficker Joseph Matamata granted parole

June 20, 2026

Pacific gender specialist Dr Fiona Hukula

Crime

Protect women accused of ‘sorcery’ and punish attackers, watchdog tells PNG

June 10, 2021

Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh

Crime

Israel passes extreme death penalty law targeting only Palestinians

March 31, 2026

A Port Moresby protester condemns the spate of GBV attacks

Crime

‘Enough is enough’, say PNG women over gender crimes by ‘callous...

January 11, 2022

Evelyn Kunda at her safe house

Crime

Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’

August 17, 2022

Women at the weekend Noumea GBV protest

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Noumea protesters demand action on domestic violence after woman is killed

August 8, 2022

Crime

Thousands of Filipinos demand end to killings in Duterte’s drug war

August 24, 2017

Crime

Journalists fighting oil palm plantation found stabbed to death in Sumatra

Pacific Media Watch -

November 6, 2019

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos

Crime

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

May 3, 2026

New Zealand's government and its sycophantic media need more time to argue about this very "complex" Gaza genocide

Crime

Gerard Otto on Palestine, genocide and the media: ‘Not if –...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 17, 2025

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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

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

Crime

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

Crime

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

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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

Pascal Sawa, head of the UC-FLNKS list in the Northern province, welcomes the results in the municipality of Houaïlou

Asia Report

Official results confirmed for New Caledonia’s provincial elections

Human rights lawyer Sarah Schwartz who is executive director of the Jewish Council of Australia

Analysis

Vile abuse and targeted by Murdoch media. The cost of speaking...

A Papuan casualty on Monday

Asia Report

Indonesian soldiers accused of wounding two Papuan teenagers in Titigi

A TPNPB resistance fighter stands guard on the charred aircraft remains

Asia Report

Fears of more conflict in West Papua after American pilot killed

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch

Culture

‘Pasifika’ All Blacks claim bloody and physical Nations rugby test against...

Beyond the Bubble

AI

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

Afghanistan

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide

Crime

Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

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

Beyond the Bubble

AI

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

Afghanistan

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide

Crime

Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

Northern provincial President Paul Néaoutine, first elected in 1999, has been reelected

Decolonisation

Horse-trading in New Caledonia over provincial presidency elections