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Fiji police chief warns parents to ‘be sensible’ over child safety

February 23, 2016

Slips from Vanuatu's earthquake today

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Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila

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WJEC16: Media failing in reporting climate change, say educators

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Destruction and construction – Tukuraki’s lonely story of survival

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70 PNG soldiers deployed in quake zone as death toll hits 100

Recovering the bodies of the 14 first responders from the shallow graves where they were executed by Israeli forces in Rafah, southern Gaza

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Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over

April 2, 2025

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located

February 22, 2023

Nuku'alofa port before and after the volcano eruption and tsunami

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Safety at Tonga port being checked for arrival of more humanitarian...

January 21, 2022

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Devastating Cyclone Keni moves out of Fijian waters, clean up begins

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2018

The huge landslide engulfed the Engan village of Yambali in the Papua New Guinea highlands early today

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Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea

May 24, 2024

Ponsonby mosque child

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Christchurch terrorism attacks: NZ’s darkest hour – Friday, March 15, 2019

March 19, 2019

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Fiji family mourns death of mechanic killed in NZ tornado

June 21, 2021

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Vanuatu declares state of emergency over erupting volcano

September 26, 2017

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Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists

October 2, 2017

Farmers near Tolaga Bay face forestry slash damage

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Tolaga Bay farmer seething over forestry slash floods

February 17, 2023

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Fiji’s devastated Tukuraki village moves to new site after landslide

October 29, 2017

HMAS Adelaide ... en route for Tonga

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Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga

January 25, 2022

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PNG declares state of emergency in wake of quake devastation

March 2, 2018

All smiles FTimes

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Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering

March 1, 2021

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70 PNG soldiers deployed in quake zone as death toll hits...

March 8, 2018

A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

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Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu

December 22, 2024

Fiji police

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Fiji lifts movement restrictions in wake of TC Harold destruction

April 9, 2020

NZ Pacific People's Minister Aupito William Sio

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Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta

July 6, 2022

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Death toll in Indonesia’s Lombok quake rises to 91

August 6, 2018

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Vanuatu switches to recovery mode after Donna — Ella now stronger

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2017

Crime reports as the post-cyclone Gabrielle clean-up operations continue

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Police report number of uncontactable people down to single...

February 26, 2023

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How mining and militarisation led to an HIV epidemic in Indonesia’s...

November 26, 2016

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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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik

Development

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

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

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Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

EDITOR'S PICKS

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

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

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

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Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Analysis

Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections