CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Sunday, May 10, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Commissioner Virginia Bell
      Australia

      Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

      Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom
      Analysis

      Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

      The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year
      Development

      French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

      Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017
      Decolonisation

      Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt…

      Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara
      Democracy

      ‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Development

Development

Random
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Grubsheet blog 200920
Development

Graham Davis: Why Bainimarama has slammed me in the Fiji ‘state’ media

Pacific Media Watch -
September 20, 2020
video
Development

Media face blockade over human rights reporting in Myanmar

Who next, after the US kidnapping of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, incurs the Don’s displeasure?
Development

Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is

Development

Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care more

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

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

Development

Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

APR editor -
February 4, 2016
0
Former Cook Islands National Environment Service (NES) director Nga Puna
Development

Cook Islands deputy PM, 2 former officials found guilty of corruption

APR editor -
February 2, 2024
0
Porgera goldmine . . . in April, tribal violence led to the closure of schools and businesses
Development

‘Let your children live in peace’ plea by PNG’s Marape over...

APR editor -
July 24, 2023
0
Development

Papua, Pacific youth and climate change to mark NZ conference

Michael Andrew -
October 16, 2019
0
United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) vice-president Octo Mote
Development

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

APR editor -
September 13, 2024
0
Spawning kawaka
Development

Fijian policymaker calls for an ‘inspired’ defence of world oceans

APR editor -
June 8, 2022
0
Bougainville' President Ishmael Toroama
Development

‘What are you afraid of?’ Toroama asks PNG about independence vote

APR editor -
August 1, 2023
0
NZ Pacific People's Minister Aupito William Sio
Development

Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta

APR editor -
July 6, 2022
0
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Development

Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

APR editor -
February 9, 2025
0
Youssef Sammour, a veteran of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Development

How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza...

APR editor -
June 1, 2025
0
"Australia-owned Pacific telco likely exploited by private spies"
Development

‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder...

Pacific Media Watch -
February 8, 2025
0
Development

Early elections cannot become the norm in Timor-Leste, says Alkatiri

APR editor -
February 24, 2020
0
Development

Peter S. Kinjap: Development and injustice – expect the worst in...

KINJAP Peter S. -
December 15, 2016
0
Kontras coordinator Fatia Maulidiyanti
Development

Kontras criticises military officers being made regional heads as ‘return to...

APR editor -
June 3, 2022
0
China's regional Pacific ambitions
Development

Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist

APR editor -
May 27, 2022
0
Development

Ralph Regenvanu: Pacific regionalism, climate finance and women in politics

APR editor -
August 15, 2018
0
Recent aid arrangements are emblematic of the geopolitical tussle playing out in the Pacific between China and the US and its allies
Development

Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...

APR editor -
December 17, 2024
0
video
Development

Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’

David Robie -
November 18, 2017
0
Fiji troops celebrating International Peacekeepers Day
Development

Bainimarama slams Fiji’s support for Israeli occupation of Palestine as ‘disturbing’

APR editor -
February 21, 2024
0
Prime Minister James Marape at Thursday's pre-Independence Day celebration
Development

Marape calls for policies for a ‘better PNG’ in independence message

APR editor -
September 16, 2023
0
Development

Fiji and Pacific countries must ‘band together’ over Trump uncertainty, says...

APR editor -
July 29, 2025
0
Pacific Report

Newest PIF members historic – but not without concerns, say reports

PMC Reporter -
September 15, 2016
0
123...50Page 1 of 50

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Development

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

Load more

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

Load more

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
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...

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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila
Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila
Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later
Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"
Analysis

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Commissioner Virginia Bell
Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom
Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year
Development

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017
Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Load more

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

A Canadian boy tourist holds a Palestinian flag aloft signalling to "no war" protesters on Devonport wharf
Analysis

Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...

Commissioner Virginia Bell
Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

Video footage obtained by human rights researchers shows a crowd of angry Papuans throwing stones towards police infrastructure in Kobakma
Asia Report

West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning...

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom
Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

Editor's Picks

Commissioner Virginia Bell

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

May 10, 2026
Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

May 9, 2026
The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

May 9, 2026
Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

May 9, 2026
Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

May 8, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

May 4, 2026
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

May 8, 2026
Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

May 9, 2026
Commissioner Virginia Bell

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

May 10, 2026
"Everyone was taken by surprise [with the Israeli military attack]"

‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global...

May 7, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8240
  • Politics6024
  • Human Rights4699
  • Syndicate4547
  • Global3961
  • New Zealand3544
  • Indigenous2931
  • RNZ Pacific2572
  • Media2277
  • Pacific Media Watch1999
  • Asia Report1976
  • Democracy1909
  • Security1892
  • Military1740
  • Justice1682
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz