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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Economics

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Economics

Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy

Guam Governor Leon Guerrero welcomes Taiwan's President Lai to Guam

Economics

Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

Economics

New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with US hit hardest

The gas and diesel price sign at Ace's One Stop fuel station in Majuro

Economics

Marshall Islands govt slashes income tax as living costs skyrocket

True cost of covid pandemic

Economics

Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters...

April 20, 2021

Economics

Abrupt increase in minimum wage may hit Fiji economy, warns academic

May 17, 2017

Protesters in New Zealand's "mega strike" today

Economics

Thousands of nurses, teachers and doctors take part in NZ’s ‘mega...

October 23, 2025

The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Economics

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 2024

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

Economics

Kiribati ‘cooking something with China’, says ex-Kiribati president

July 14, 2022

Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade

Economics

New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...

April 3, 2025

Economics

Officials fail to resolve issues with PNG LNG landowners, gas flow...

KINJAP Peter S. -

August 14, 2016

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Attorney-General Siromi Turaga

Economics

Rabuka’s ‘wasteful spending’ spotlight now turns onto FBC, Fiji Sun

Pacific Media Watch -

January 9, 2023

National Federation Party leader Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Biman Prasad calls out ‘dire straits’ Bainimarama government

April 16, 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Economics

New Zealand and European Union secure historic free trade deal

July 1, 2022

Panguna gold and copper mine

Economics

PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine

February 18, 2022

Economics

Climate change costs at-risk countries $525 billion in damage, says report

June 13, 2022

Economics

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

May 30, 2019

PNG Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister Wera Mori

Economics

Almost K6m COP26 bill for PNG climate delegation shocks nation

November 6, 2021

Economics

Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal

January 27, 2016

Manila lockdown

Economics

State must fund urgent Filipino health, social needs now, say economists

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

March 23, 2020

Some of the European MPs supporting West Papua

Economics

Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West...

January 25, 2024

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Economics

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

March 29, 2023

Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022

Economics

‘Political chaos’ – Fiji PM Rabuka confirms Biman Prasad’s resignation

October 29, 2025

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

Unity will be crucial if the Labour Party is to sell its proposed capital gains tax

Economics

Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch

October 28, 2025

The Marshalls Energy Company and its power plant has faced a near doubling of its diesel fuel costs since the US/Israel attacked Iran on February 28

Economics

Marshall Islands government shuts down at 3pm daily amid fuel crisis

April 17, 2026

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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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A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

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

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

Activist Mike Smith

Climate

‘Affront to democracy’ – NZ law change halts landmark climate crisis...

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A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Economics

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

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

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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

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Economics

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

Fiji media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...