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Vanuatu local authorities have been working around the clock since Tuesday to try to locate and rescue people trapped in the Port Vila rubble left by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake this week

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Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors

December 19, 2024

King Tupou VI

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Tongan King calls for unity as he vows to rebuild amid Hunga’s volcanic ash

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Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island

Hunga-Ha’apai and Hunga-Tonga erupting in Tonga

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Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disaster

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

The Esk Valley in Hawke's Bay on Tuesday

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Cyclone Gabrielle: New weather warnings for flood-hit NZ regions

February 23, 2023

American Samoan storms

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American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms

July 16, 2022

All smiles FTimes

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

March 1, 2021

HMNZS Aotearoa (docked) and HMNZS Wellington in Nuku’alofa

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Australia and New Zealand compete with China for Tongan influence

January 24, 2022

Auckland flash flood debris

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NZ flash floods: Residents slam council inaction over rubbish disposal

February 2, 2023

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Howling dogs all that’s left in volcano island Ambae’s empty villages

October 5, 2017

Marshall Islands firefighters try to contain the Nitijela (Parliament) fire

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‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex

August 26, 2025

Bay View cyclone survivor Maureen Dorr holds her dog Pancho

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Cyclone Gabrielle zone: ‘I’d call it an apocalypse’ says survivor –...

February 18, 2023

Mt Roskill flood-damaged belongings

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Auckland’s Great Flood: ‘If you think it was bad before, it’s...

February 10, 2023

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NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific

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March 4, 2018

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NZ sending more Defence Force engineers to assist Fiji

February 28, 2016

Sriwijaya Air wreckage

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Body parts found at Sriwijaya Air crash site in Indonesia –...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 10, 2021

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K150m released to PNG’s earthquake-ravaged districts in more relief efforts

March 6, 2018

Matilda Koma

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PNG authorities slammed over ‘lack of control’ on alluvial mining

January 2, 2021

UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution

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

April 18, 2025

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Eight die in Papua plane crash – teenager boy lone survivor

August 13, 2018

A Tongan grandmother shares her tsunami story

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Tonga’s tsunami: ‘Nana! There’s a wave coming … Nana! It’s...

January 25, 2022

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

A local business sign in Port Vila reads “Stay strong and carry on Vanuatu”

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Vanuatu one month on: aftershocks, a no-go zone and anxiety

January 17, 2025

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Fiji death toll rises to 5 as Winston leaves devastation

February 21, 2016

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Koro’s nightmare – no chance for the people against Winston’s fury

February 24, 2016

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Stop politicising relief help, warns Seruiratu – 62,000 homeless

February 27, 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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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"

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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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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...

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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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7amleh's Nadim Nashif

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An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

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112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

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Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

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NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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112 members of two Palestinian families - Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia - have been buried in Gaza

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Gaza genocide: Mourning the 112 victims of two families of Israeli...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

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NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

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Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo