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Hawai'i Governor Josh Green talks to Face the Nation

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Struggling Maui residents now ‘pleading’ for tourists to return

August 25, 2023

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Palu disaster: Why Indonesia’s tsunamis are so deadly

Survivor Tevita 'Amaka

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

Auckland's Mt Eden shot tower

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk

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Danger lurks but tales of heroism are emerging, says Fiji Times editor

Solidarity from another decolonisation struggle - West Papua

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Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...

June 1, 2025

Flooding in Napier NZ

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

February 19, 2023

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

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Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis...

December 6, 2024

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

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2018

RFMF Territorial Brigade soldiers taking part in the three-day Operation Genesis exercises in Fiji

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Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels...

March 21, 2025

Flooding in Dili 1

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Severe floods hit Timor-Leste capital Dili in Easter disaster

April 4, 2021

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

Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: The science behind its massive power

February 13, 2023

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

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

October 19, 2025

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

April 22, 2018

Workers load the HMAS Adelaide with supplies for Tonga

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‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official

January 23, 2022

Auckland's flash floods 2023

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Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying...

February 2, 2023

Vanuatu rescuers search for trapped people after yesterday's 7.3 earthquake struck Port Vila

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Vanuatu quake: Services still down nearly 24 hours after Port Vila...

December 18, 2024

The majestic 150-year-old banyan tree in front of the historic courthouse in Lahaina still stands following destructive wildfires on Maui

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‘Everyone was in panic mode’: Lāhainā resident tells of wildfire escape

August 12, 2023

The container ship Dali

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Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says...

April 2, 2024

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Counting the cost of PNG’s devastating earthquake – many uncertainties

March 10, 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

TC Harold

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Restricted movement on Viti Levu as TC Harold hammers Fiji

April 8, 2020

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located

February 22, 2023

Port Vila-based journalist Dan McGarry has a big clean up on his hands

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Vanuatu residents ‘exhausted’ after two wild cyclones in three days

March 4, 2023

Disaster news coverage

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Gavin Ellis: Thank God for news media in a storm

Pacific Media Watch -

February 16, 2023

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Stretched by coronavirus pandemic, Vanuatu faces cyclone, Mt Yasur ash

April 7, 2020

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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

Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

Resigned TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman

Democracy

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into...

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

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

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

Papua's Tom Beanal

Analysis

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’