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Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

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Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

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Chinese president bound for PNG as controversy mounts over APEC 2018

Māori entities have grown from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP

Economics

Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

Davao City’s Chinatown is a popular shopping street

Economics

China railway for Davao dream dashed as Marcos tilts towards the US

NZ's climate National Adaptation Plan

Economics

NZ’s new climate crisis plan: ‘Blueprint for more resilient communities’

Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Economics

Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting...

July 19, 2020

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Economics

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

September 1, 2026

$Neoliberalism caused two fractures in the world – why Iran’s resistance is so vital$

Economics

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

April 17, 2026

Economics

Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure

November 15, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron and Papua New Guinea PM James Marape meeting

Economics

PNG prime minister visits France, plans to open Paris embassy

May 26, 2026

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ’s prime minister Luxon in Niue: ‘This is the Pacific family’

June 5, 2024

Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Biman Prasad: Is our Fiji democracy really working?

February 2, 2016

Economics

PM Luxon talks doubling RSE in PNG – plane breakdown almost...

June 17, 2024

Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year

Economics

Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

June 12, 2025

Mining giant RioTinto

Economics

Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant

July 24, 2024

Prime Minister Mark Brown says the New Zealand-Cook Islands relationship is too strong

Economics

Mark Brown rejects talk of ‘strategic shift’ in Cook Islands-New Zealand...

August 6, 2025

Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson

Economics

‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

June 8, 2023

A two-year investigation by Inland Revenue

Economics

Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh...

April 27, 2023

Bryan Bruce

Economics

Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal...

July 17, 2020

Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Economics

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the...

August 27, 2026

Economics

Reconciling New Caledonia: A vote to clear the air on independence?

July 29, 2018

PNG former prime minister Peter O'Neill speaks to media

Economics

PNG chief secretary’s complaint prompted arrest of former PM O’Neill

June 13, 2023

French police fire teargas during clashes with Union Calédonienne pro-independence protesters in central Nouméa

Economics

Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia

February 22, 2024

John Taukave (left) from the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport and Miss Samoa Litara Ieremia-Allan (second from left) at COP29

Economics

COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

November 30, 2024

A home destroyed in tribal fighting in PNG's Highlands

Economics

NZ pulls plug on $6.7m power project in Papua New Guinea...

February 2, 2026

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

Economics

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

November 25, 2024

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

Economics

Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

February 18, 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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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

Asia Report

Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

Analysis

‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

Culture

From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of...

Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh

Asia Report

Palestinian-led parties in Israel face ‘institutional discrimination’, says lawyer

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The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

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‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

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Media demand answers after Samoan PM’s security reportedly deletes journalist’s photos

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

Asia Report

Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

The Fijian Health Ministry predicts more than 3000 new cases will be reported this year

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Fiji approves ‘lifeline’ needle exchange law to combat HIV emergency

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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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The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

Analysis

‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

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Media demand answers after Samoan PM’s security reportedly deletes journalist’s photos

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

Asia Report

Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit

The Fijian Health Ministry predicts more than 3000 new cases will be reported this year

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Fiji approves ‘lifeline’ needle exchange law to combat HIV emergency