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China's regional Pacific ambitions

Economics

Kiribati ‘forced’ to allow China visit on Pacific mission, says journalist

May 27, 2022

Pacific Islands Forum flags

Economics

More Pacific Islands Forum summit leaders pull out as crisis grows

The New Caledonia Congress in session in November 2024

Economics

New Caledonia political crisis costs one third of multi-million French package

Just over half of New Zealanders surveyed - including Pacific Islanders - reported they were financially stressed

Economics

More than half of New Zealanders struggling financially, says survey

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil

Economics

Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face the facts

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Economics

Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

February 9, 2025

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Economics

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

Solar panels on the rooftop of the Greenpeace Aotearoa office

Economics

Greenpeace backs Greens’ ‘solar homes’ policy, but warns over NZ post-election...

August 13, 2023

Professor Kishore Mahbubani

Economics

Drop Western ‘mental maps’ for Asian new order, says Mahbubani

August 27, 2020

PNG shipping of oil and hydrocarbons

Economics

PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste...

July 16, 2024

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Economics

NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau govt minister says ‘impacts to be felt by...

January 28, 2025

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape greeted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta

Economics

Marape flags Pertamina fuel deal amid trade, bilateral talks in Indonesia

April 1, 2022

NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

Economics

NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...

September 12, 2023

The UN General Assembly

Economics

Call for UN sanctions on Israel to implement ICJ ruling on...

September 17, 2024

New Zealand's super city Auckland

Economics

Super city Auckland’s council financial results signal tough times ahead

August 31, 2022

Economics

American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

Chinese diplomacy in the Pacific

Economics

Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?

June 27, 2022

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate...

January 23, 2025

Three flags in Tahiti

Economics

French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute

May 9, 2023

Economics

Media suffer ‘devastating’ blows on both sides of the Tasman

Sri Krishnamurthi -

April 3, 2020

SPREP’s Director-General Sefanaia Nawadra

Economics

High Seas Treaty welcome news for SPREP in uncertain times

January 21, 2026

Economics

Loss of Australian Associated Press (AAP) a tragedy for entire Pacific

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March 4, 2020

The University of Papua New Guinea

Economics

Mass eviction back on again near UPNG as police give green...

January 28, 2022

Economics

Freeport’s $3.8b divestment mine deal – what it actually means

July 15, 2018

President Donald Trump

Economics

Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire

January 22, 2025

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Economics

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

May 16, 2026

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday

Economics

COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

November 11, 2025

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Economics

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Economics

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

Asia Report

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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PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Culture

New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies

Asia Report

Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’

Israeli embassy controversy in Wellington

Asia Report

Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA

$"And now the world acts shocked because foreign activists were finally subjected to a fraction of what Palestinians have endured for decades$

Analysis

Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Climate activist Violet Coco

Asia Report

‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

Analysis

Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga sings and dances along to a cultural song after Saturday's Super Rugby Pacific Round 15 match

Editor's Picks

‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Economics

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

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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

Climate activist Violet Coco

Asia Report

‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...

New Zealand Gaza flotilla supporters welcome home two Kiwi activists from brutal Israeli detention at the weekend

Analysis

Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s...

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Economics

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko (second from right) has been leading advocacy for island US military veterans

Economics

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive