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The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

"New Zealand has an opportunity to get ahead of the global backlash"

Development

Bryce Edwards: What the Epstein scandal means for NZ politics

A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik

Development

Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’

Development

New Chinese-built Koura Way road construction on target in PNG

Development

Chinese banks provide 40 percent of Fiji’s foreign loans

Development

Experts warn over Indonesian plan for fast track environmental deregulation

February 15, 2020

Development

Panguna women landowners say BCL didn’t consult and ‘isn’t welcome’

Pacific Media Watch -

June 12, 2017

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda with Vanuatu and Papuan officials

Development

Wenda calls on Melanesian ‘Good Samaritans’ to help free West Papua

January 23, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama

Development

Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint

July 14, 2022

Indigenous Papuans in Merauke district protest to protect their customary lands

Development

Indigenous Papuans accuse Indonesian government of ‘land grabbing’ for food security...

May 16, 2025

Palika's Charles Washetine

Development

Two pro-independence parties in New Caledonia vow to continue fight

March 15, 2022

The late Francis Ona and Panguna mine

Development

Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war

July 27, 2022

Flying high . . . the Morning Star ensign -- banned in Indonesia -- flying alongside the Vanuatu national flag in Port Vila

Development

‘The world is watching’ – it’s a test for Melanesian leaders...

August 24, 2023

Development

‘Shocking’ levels of child violence found in Pacific, says new report

August 2, 2019

A demonstration placard last weekend against Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's weakness over Palestine and condemning Israeli oppression against Gazan journalists

Development

Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 22, 2025

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

Development

Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

April 18, 2026

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka speaks to the Fijian community in Sydney

Development

Rabuka calls for Pacific peace zone – ‘We don’t want to...

October 20, 2023

Papua New Guinea

PNG landowners shut down the LNG project with ‘no hope’ to...

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 8, 2016

What lies ahead at Baku?

Development

COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed

November 10, 2024

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

Development

Kiribati ‘cooking something with China’, says ex-Kiribati president

July 14, 2022

NZ aid worker Hector Sharp

Development

UN refugee agency a neutral Gaza ‘lifeline for millions’, says aid...

January 29, 2024

Professor Steven Ratuva

Development

‘Call it what it is – climate crisis, not just change,’...

May 8, 2022

Development

Pacific’s brightest minds gather for Oceans and Islands research summit

November 29, 2018

Tunnels have been present in the besieged Gaza Strip for decades

Development

Israel destroys only a quarter of Gaza tunnels in 18 months...

April 13, 2025

Between 26 to 30 Gazan journalists have been targeted in this Israeli campaign of assassination. And Anas wanted the UN rapporteur to go public, he wanted others to go public, to stop what Israel was doing

Development

Israel has ‘deliberate strategy’ of killing Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif,...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 13, 2025

Development

Timor-Leste president to make first official visit to Indonesia

June 25, 2018

Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe

Development

‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...

October 27, 2024

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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

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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

Yahukimo tribal chief Alpius Yallak makes a statement on the massacre

Asia Report

Wenda calls on ‘brave’ Pacific to raise West Papua at UNGA...

Vanuatu's MV Matui tragedy on September 11

Climate

Seasonal weather chaos just part of picture of Pacific maritime tragedies,...

Fiji's Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara

Development

Fijian chief calls for scrutiny of Fiji-Australia security treaties

Author Nicky Hager at the launch of his latest book Dirty Work

Civil Society

Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Work ‘exposé’ of Taxpayers’ Union

EDITOR'S PICKS

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Analysis

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

Development

‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

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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

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Analysis

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech