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More than 30 feared dead after quake hits PNG’s Hela, Southern Highlands

February 27, 2018

Marshall Islands Red Cross staff administering Moderna vaccine in Majuro

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WHO declares public health emergency for Marshall Islands

Red Tsounga with the volunteer team from the Whānau Hub

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Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time

True cost of covid pandemic

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Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years

Independent writer Eugene Doyle

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Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide

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

Pacific Media Watch -

March 5, 2018

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31 deaths so far in PNG quake, but ‘hit-and-miss’ on rural...

March 1, 2018

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Typhoon Mangkhut devastates north of Philippines with at least 64 dead

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

September 16, 2018

Fresh fish at a wet market

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How Fukushima wastewater into Pacific will disrupt seafood trade

April 15, 2023

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Vanuatu evacuates 8000 villagers on Ambae as volcano erupts

September 24, 2017

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NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

March 4, 2018

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100 homes damaged, people from Korovou village cry for help

February 25, 2016

Cleaning up Tonga's volcano ashfall

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Why no warning sirens before Tonga’s deadly tsunami hit? Minister unclear

January 27, 2022

Flooding in Sorong

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Two die in heavy floods in West Papuan city Sorong

August 25, 2022

The container ship Dali

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

April 2, 2024

Tonga Communications Corporation

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Eruption renews debate on lack of backup for Tongan communications

January 18, 2022

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14 confirmed dead in PNG Highlands quake, aftershocks

February 28, 2018

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Gallery: Stay away from flooded areas, Samoan police warn after Cyclone...

February 10, 2018

Floods in Waitomo

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NZ floods: Heavy rain hits Waikato, Waitomo and derails train

January 29, 2023

At least two GP clinics and a pharmacy are among the casualties of the flooding in Lismore, northeast NSW

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After Australia’s floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat

March 14, 2022

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located

February 22, 2023

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Challenges on the ground in PNG Highlands – what people really...

March 10, 2018

Cityscape

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Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics – target: rebuild...

May 26, 2020

Dramatic increases in food prices always mean there is a famine, even though not every famine is accompanied by rising food costs

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Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and...

August 6, 2025

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Tourists flee Lombok as Indonesian quake death toll hits 98

August 7, 2018

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

March 6, 2018

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Eight die in Papua plane crash – teenager boy lone survivor

August 13, 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

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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

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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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A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade

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Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance...

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white

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Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

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Trump is blustering as usual but in reality praying for Iran...

Alternative Jewish Voices radio at Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM

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Alternative Jewish Voices launches new access radio programme

"Israel’s supporters in the West have launched the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism"

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Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...

A young Gazan journalist describes her setting up for story telling about Al Shifa Hospital

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Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes

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Australia

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

Global

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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Trump is blustering as usual but in reality praying for Iran...

Alternative Jewish Voices radio at Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM

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Alternative Jewish Voices launches new access radio programme

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

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Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

"Israel’s supporters in the West have launched the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism"

Analysis

Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...