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The village on Serua Island, Fiji

Development

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

January 10, 2023

Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping . . . under fire for lack of transparency over nine deals

Development

Solomons PM’s ‘I’m back home’ comment in Beijing ‘shameful’, says Wale

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

Development

Macron keen on Varirata forest lookout for bilateral talks with PNG

Development

Massive tourism development proposal for Port Vila poses urban challenge

New research argues the priority now should be addressing the real driver of multiple ecological crises

Development

Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Development

PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

July 20, 2024

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Development

‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

June 26, 2025

Today's open letter on Gaza in The Post to NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Development

Palestinian foreign minister tells ICJ of ‘besieged, bombed and killed’ Gazans

February 19, 2024

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Development

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate...

July 30, 2026

Papuan students, with their body and face painted with the colours of the banned Morning Star flag

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Indonesia’s new plans for Papua can’t hide its decades of failures

June 22, 2022

Exxon Mobil PNG's LNG plant near Port Moresby

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Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project

January 7, 2026

Development

Get rid of untrusted ‘public serpents’ in PNG, says Juffa

August 5, 2016

Elite 1 percenters

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We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts...

January 27, 2021

Protesters make a point to delegates at COP27 in Egypt

Development

COP27 finale: Leaders debate climate damage funding for Pacific nations

November 19, 2022

Pacific shipping corridors

Development

China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

September 4, 2023

PNG anti-corruption drive

Development

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

May 25, 2023

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

Development

Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (right), with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape

Development

NZ announces support package, new High Commission building in PNG

August 7, 2025

ISA's Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho

Development

Pacific nations shaping future of seabed mining rules, says ISA chief

May 27, 2026

Development

Governor Juffa, police crack down on PNG’s Collingwood Bay illegal logging

Pacific Media Centre -

March 20, 2018

The new draft PNG communication policy

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Media not a ‘tool for government’, says critic of new PNG...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 16, 2023

A "dove of peace" in Iran

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Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

April 14, 2026

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Development

Fiji advocacy group slams Indonesian role in MSG as a ‘disgrace’

June 25, 2025

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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NZ’s prime minister Luxon in Niue: ‘This is the Pacific family’

June 5, 2024

PNG Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu

Development

PNG Communications Minister calls for media to ‘protect, preserve Pacific identity’

July 8, 2024

The Pacific Media Conference 2024 lineup

Development

Award-winning academics, journos lined up for Pacific Media 2024

July 3, 2024

Development

Rabi landslide? Not a big problem, horseback and walking the answer

April 26, 2018

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Development

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

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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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Regionalism and consensus are the best safeguards

Asia Report

Foreign espionage increasing in Pacific, says NZ’s spy agency

This article will not only be about counting ships

Analysis

Strait of Hormuz: It’s not just the numbers – it’s the...

Former FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

Democracy

Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null...

Auckland's new metro rail station Karanga-a-hape

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‘Just lovely’: Karanga-a-Hape train station delights locals and visitors on open...

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Indonesian military forces in action in Intan Jaya regency in Central Papua province this week

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West Papua issue likely to be on agenda in Palau, says...

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

The Strait of Hormuz - closed

Asia Report

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

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‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

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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

Indonesian military forces in action in Intan Jaya regency in Central Papua province this week

Development

West Papua issue likely to be on agenda in Palau, says...

Reports from West Papua say parts of the highlands region have been blanketed by snow and ice in recent days

Development

Snowfall in West Papua, while severe drought hits other parts of...

Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts

Cook Islands

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...