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A sunset in the Mamanucas, Fiji

Economics

‘Tourists buzzing’ in resorts and islands as Fiji welcomes back visitors

December 3, 2022

Union Calédonienne’s President Emmanuel Tjibaou (centre)

Economics

Tjibaou’s party unveils plan for New Caledonia’s future ‘independence’

Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Sashi Kiran (second from left) with Fiji Women's Rights Movement staff during the launch of the research report "Beyond 33 percent"

Economics

Females do 73 percent of unpaid housework in Fiji, says new report

Pacific election promises in NZ

Economics

NZ election 2023: Growing Pasifika population equals greater electoral power

Pacific verdict on COP29

Economics

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

Economics

Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation

August 16, 2019

Al Jazeera's senior political and media analyst Marwan Bishara

Economics

Media analyst criticises Trump for applying ‘strategic coercion, economic blackmail’ policy

Pacific Media Watch -

February 22, 2025

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Economics

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026

A big gathering of West Papuans in support of full West Papuan membership of the MSG took place peacefully this afternoon in the capital Jayapura

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Senior MSG official calls for Melanesia to remain neutral in geopolitical...

August 22, 2023

Economics

Chinese president bound for PNG as controversy mounts over APEC 2018

November 15, 2018

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Economics

Caitlin Johnstone: The US keeps openly admitting it deliberately caused the...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 7, 2026

Economics

PNG deep sea mining project another ‘failed investment’, says ex-minister

November 14, 2018

Panguna mine . . . the flooding

Economics

Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

June 7, 2023

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Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says...

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January 30, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Economics

The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...

June 27, 2026

Chinese diplomacy in the Pacific

Economics

Steven Ratuva: Pacific agency: A devalued political capital?

June 27, 2022

PIF Zoom

Economics

Micronesian leaders boycott Forum, stand firm on plan to leave bloc

August 7, 2021

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Dr Prasad unveils $4.8b budget as deficit widens

June 30, 2025

Economics

Trans-Tasman bubble – Ardern hopeful of eased travel ‘when safe’

May 5, 2020

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Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task...

January 15, 2017

NZ's major print media and radio company NZME

Economics

Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence

Pacific Media Watch -

March 6, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron

Economics

Decoding PNG leader Marape’s talks with French President Macron

June 17, 2025

"Housing is a human right"

Economics

John Minto: Where are the journalists to tackle NZ’s prime ministerial...

September 9, 2022

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Economics

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

February 3, 2026

Pandora Papers - Samoa

Economics

Samoa Observer: Pandora Papers show tax reform vital, but not just...

October 11, 2021

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Economics

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

August 9, 2026

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Economics

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

July 1, 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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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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Samoa government urged at UN to address declining media freedom

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‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

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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

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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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‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US...

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

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PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Crime

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu