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King Tupou VI

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

January 29, 2022

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

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Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and needs to be stopped

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Prepared? Yes, but devastation of Winston was overwhelming

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Fiji’s provident fund frees up $5.3m for natural disaster assistance

Pacific cyclones

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Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2018

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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Fallen hero saves trapped 5 – but dies trying to rescue...

February 23, 2016

The flag of Hawai'i waves beside a sign reading "Tourist(s) Keep Out" in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires

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Anger in Hawai’i over threat of land grabs after wildfire disaster

August 22, 2023

HMAS Adelaide ... en route for Tonga

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Covid-19 cases confirmed aboard HMAS Adelaide bound for Tonga

January 25, 2022

The global Nakba Day protest with marchers today in Queen Street in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

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‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says...

May 17, 2025

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Free lunch for some Fiji schools, cyclone classroom damage $42m

March 1, 2016

Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau announcing the declaration of a state of emergency 020323

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PM Kalsakau in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu declares emergency as new storm bears...

March 3, 2023

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Rakiraki town hopes to get business going again next week

February 27, 2016

New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military

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Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

August 24, 2025

Tongan geologists view the Hunga eruption

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Tongan volcanic eruption reveals the vulnerabilities in global telecommunications

January 18, 2022

Aid for Tonga

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Second day of NZ’s Tonga tsunami emergency fundraiser today

January 22, 2022

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Fiji’s provident fund frees up $5.3m for natural disaster assistance

April 22, 2018

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The man I never knew – a tribute to a PNG...

January 6, 2018

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Typhoon Mangkhut devastates north of Philippines with at least 64 dead

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

September 16, 2018

Flooding in Napier NZ

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Death toll rises to 11, Civil Defence targets isolated...

February 19, 2023

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

Fiji's Viliame Gavoka and AG Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

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SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’

July 6, 2021

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Infrawatch blames Philippine dam operators for Cagayan, Isabela floods

November 15, 2020

Starlink green light . . . good news for many Papua New Guineans

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

April 27, 2026

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

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West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

April 29, 2026

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...

May 28, 2025

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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

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

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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...

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

Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

Analysis

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

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’...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The lack of proportionality is the key

Asia Report

They’re saying the attack on Iran was proportional – here are...

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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

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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

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

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’...