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
Friday, June 12, 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
    • Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections
      Civil Society

      New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

      Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
      Asia Report

      Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

      World Cup BDS graphic
      Asia Report

      Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’…

      Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel
      Culture

      Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

      Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin
      Civil Society

      Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia

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

Disasters

Random
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
NBC Five Mile fire
Disasters

Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units

APR editor -
August 28, 2021
Disasters

‘We prayed with them until they died’ – stories of Kiribati ferry survival

Disasters

How Jack Mawe died trying to save his wife and child in PNG earthquake

Coronavirus graphic
Disasters

Pacific coronavirus: Cyclone Harold leaves death, destruction

Tsunami flooding in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa
Disasters

New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves hit Tonga’s capital

Disasters

37 deaths in Southern Highlands, 16 in Hela as PNG relief...

Pacific Media Watch -
March 5, 2018
0
Disasters

Vanuatu rescuers face tough challenges over Ambae volcano evacuation

APR editor -
September 27, 2017
0
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Disasters

No reports of deaths in Tongan volcano tsunami, says NZ prime...

APR editor -
January 16, 2022
0
Survivor Tevita 'Amaka
Disasters

Tonga eruption: ‘The tsunami came, taking down electric poles, trees’

APR editor -
January 15, 2023
0
Disasters

Ardern mission for post-Gita visit to Tonga, Samoa, Niue and Cook...

APR editor -
February 19, 2018
3
Disasters

Vanuatu switches to recovery mode after Donna — Ella now stronger

Pacific Media Watch -
May 10, 2017
0
NBC Five Mile fire
Disasters

Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units

APR editor -
August 28, 2021
0
Johnson and Jaqueline Yandam
Disasters

PNG landslide: Couple pulled alive from rubble as 690 feared dead

APR editor -
May 27, 2024
0
Disasters

Cyclone Winston claims 10 lives, destroys century-old iconic tree

APR editor -
February 22, 2016
1
video
Disasters

Kilauea volcano ash rains down on Hawai’i with more blasts predicted

APR editor -
May 18, 2018
0
RSE worker Taylor Crichton and church volunteer Fuimaono Nathan Pulega at Napier
Disasters

Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers

APR editor -
February 22, 2023
0
Disasters

Vanuatu’s mass exodus from volcano island Ambae under way

APR editor -
September 29, 2017
0
video
Disasters

Australian doctors to be flown into PNG’s quake-stricken areas

APR editor -
March 14, 2018
0
Disasters

Village on the broken mountain – the plight of PNG’s quake-hit...

APR editor -
August 21, 2018
0
Cleaning up Tonga's volcano ashfall
Disasters

Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston

APR editor -
February 5, 2022
0
video
Disasters

West Papuans launch quake appeal for survivors in PNG Highlands

Pacific Media Centre -
March 15, 2018
0
East Sepik's double disaster
Disasters

Disaster minister Joseph briefs PNG on quake and crises hitting nation

APR editor -
March 25, 2024
0
RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui
Disasters

‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage...

APR editor -
October 19, 2025
0
People dig through mud and rocks today after a major landslide at Yambali
Disasters

PNG landslide: Thousands on standby for evacuation amid fears of new...

APR editor -
May 28, 2024
0
TC Harold
Disasters

Restricted movement on Viti Levu as TC Harold hammers Fiji

APR editor -
April 8, 2020
0
UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution
Disasters

What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater...

APR editor -
April 18, 2025
0
Starlink green light . . . good news for many Papua New Guineans
Disasters

Starlink set to return to PNG after court quashes ban, clearing...

APR editor -
April 27, 2026
0
1...345...17Page 4 of 17

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

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
Disasters

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

A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests
Arts

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Asia Report

Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for...

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote
Analysis

Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections
Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic
Asia Report

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel
Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

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

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections
Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic
Asia Report

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel
Culture

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

Editor's Picks

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

June 12, 2026
Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

June 12, 2026
World Cup BDS graphic

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’...

June 12, 2026
Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

June 11, 2026
Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin

Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia

June 10, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Kanaky, Palestinian and West Papua flags flying at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre last week during a protest against the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Suva

Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign...

June 9, 2026
Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

June 12, 2026
Government field officers assess the condition of communities and collapsed structures in General Santos City

Tsunami advisories issued in Pacific after 7.8 Philippines earthquake

June 8, 2026
An Iran-China freight train

The train that changes everything – the Silk Road railway beats...

June 9, 2026
A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

June 7, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8322
  • Politics6118
  • Human Rights4770
  • Syndicate4638
  • Global4051
  • New Zealand3597
  • Indigenous2999
  • RNZ Pacific2603
  • Media2317
  • Pacific Media Watch2061
  • Asia Report2044
  • Democracy1974
  • Security1933
  • Military1802
  • Justice1741
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