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Vanuatu President seeks calm, PM says ‘we’re not ready for disasters’

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October 2, 2017

Paramedic teams from ProMedical Vanuatu treat victims of the earthquake in Port Vila on Tuesday

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Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows

RSE worker Taylor Crichton and church volunteer Fuimaono Nathan Pulega at Napier

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

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Ovalau survivors tell their horror stories as $15m aid flows to Fiji

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Solomon Islands students help out Fiji victims of TC Harold restore lives

Auckland's flash floods 2023

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

February 2, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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

January 16, 2022

Digicel Tonga’s technical team working on satellite link equipment

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Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications

Pacific Media Watch -

February 3, 2022

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Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...

July 9, 2025

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Damage to Fiji’s water system repair costs will hit millions

March 4, 2016

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Mounting death toll tops 102 after strong quake hits Aceh buildings

December 8, 2016

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Vanuatu disaster officials dump tonnes of expired relief supplies

March 8, 2016

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100 homes damaged, people from Korovou village cry for help

February 25, 2016

American Samoan storms

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American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms

July 16, 2022

Filipino rescuers at work in Mangcayo barangay near Vinzons, Bicol

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Remote Mangcayo school among areas hit by Typhoon Kristine floods

October 28, 2024

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

October 29, 2017

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Vanuatu switches to recovery mode after Donna — Ella now stronger

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2017

Slips from Vanuatu's earthquake today

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Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila

December 17, 2024

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Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable

February 19, 2018

Another shelter day for the Tangata Tuārangi RSE workers

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay

February 18, 2023

Victims of the Papua New Guinea earthquake on Sunday from Wauko village being treated in Angau Hospital after being airlifted to Lae

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Quake buries three alive in Wau as PNG reports death toll...

September 13, 2022

Lord of the Flies . . . by Mr Fish

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Chris Hedges: The last chapter of the Gaza Strip genocide

March 25, 2025

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Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2018

Cyclone Gabrielle

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Cyclone Gabrielle: The science behind its massive power

February 13, 2023

TC Harold

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Restricted movement on Viti Levu as TC Harold hammers Fiji

April 8, 2020

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Vanuatu evacuates 8000 villagers on Ambae as volcano erupts

September 24, 2017

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PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation

August 26, 2018

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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

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Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

Analysis

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

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

Asia Report

Paying the price for US-Israeli wars – and NZ’s shameful stance...

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert

Asia Report

Doctor Israel banned after 40 years in Gaza’s hospitals speaks out

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

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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

Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert

Asia Report

Doctor Israel banned after 40 years in Gaza’s hospitals speaks out

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