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Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin

Development

China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

February 15, 2025

The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Development

Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’

Hele Christopher-Ikimotu

Development

Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live

PJR 26(1) cover detail

Development

Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne

Development

French PM meets New Caledonia’s anti-independence leaders in Paris

Development

Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’

Pacific Media Watch -

April 24, 2019

Development

High risks for Fiji divers in Pacific documentary ‘disturbing’

March 6, 2016

Development

Hides landowners sign MOU with PNG government to end blockade

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 19, 2016

Development

Caribbean researcher tells of her work with NZ migrant community

June 19, 2018

A PNG Post-Courier newsboy on the streets in Port Moresby

Development

Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 16, 2023

Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"

Development

Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development

July 23, 2025

Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

Development

West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

October 5, 2023

Aotearoa Tongan Response Group's Anahila Kanongata'a (from left), Pakilau Manase Lua and Karlo Mila

Development

Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation

February 28, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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Fiji PM Rabuka downplays ‘loyalist’ nepotism allegations

June 15, 2023

New Caledonia's Congress President Roch Wamytan

Development

Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult

May 24, 2023

Marshall Islands Journal editor and founder of the Pacific Media Institute Giff Johnson

Development

Trump’s USAID freeze ‘undermines relationships in Pacific’, says editor

Pacific Media Watch -

February 10, 2025

Development

Pioneering Samoan academic wins key social sciences role at UNESCO

August 22, 2018

Davao City’s Chinatown is a popular shopping street

Development

China railway for Davao dream dashed as Marcos tilts towards the...

March 27, 2024

A group of Papuan women and children wave Melanesian state flags

Development

West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership

June 17, 2023

New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku

Development

Time for France to grant New Caledonia independence, says Wamytan

July 13, 2023

MSG leaders sign the two declarations - on climate crisis and subregional security

Development

MSG leaders defer Papua membership decision to Pacific Islands Forum

August 25, 2023

Natalius Pigai

Development

State-sanctioned racism against West Papuans ‘shows Jakarta’s true agenda’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 27, 2021

NCD Governor Powes Parkop

Development

Port Moresby public’s cry for safe public transport finally answered

April 20, 2022

A New Caledonian resident places a vote at a ballot box in Nouméa

Development

New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election

June 29, 2024

Chinese diplomacy in the Pacific

Development

Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?

June 27, 2022

Physicist and peace advocate Dr Peter Wills

Development

NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack...

February 28, 2026

Development

Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media

Pacific Media Watch -

April 16, 2019

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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

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

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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

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

Fiji Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

Democracy

FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom

Australia

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

EDITOR'S PICKS

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

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

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

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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

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

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

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