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

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Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive

May 25, 2026

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

Economics

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

Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

Economics

The price of international citizenship – Switzerland showing NZ the climate way

James Shaw 010221

Economics

Climate Change Commission plan ‘big challenge’ for New Zealand

Economics

Murray Horton: Hey, Jacinda, let’s do this – be truly independent

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

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

Economics

500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security

November 15, 2018

Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’

June 3, 2021

PNG's K1 billion Provincial and District Services Improvement Programme

Economics

PNG rural agency condemns ‘ghost projects’ in K1 billion delivery cash...

January 29, 2023

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ’s Luxon briefly stopping over to see Marape in Port Moresby

June 16, 2024

New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou

Economics

French ‘nickel pact’ to bail out New Caledonia’s industry delayed

April 1, 2024

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson

Economics

French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

March 11, 2026

Economics

Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus...

June 13, 2017

The new New Zealand investment bill is convoluted and would significantly reduce effective scrutiny of foreign investments

Economics

Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had...

July 22, 2025

Tuvalu delegates Monise Laafai and Demi Afasene

Economics

Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator

August 2, 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

"We are all learning lessons about the FijiFirst party (FFP)."

Economics

Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still...

June 17, 2023

Economics

Chinese president meets PNG’s O’Neill, pledging ‘deepening cooperation’

June 22, 2018

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Economics

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

July 15, 2026

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

Economics

Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

March 14, 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

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

The world spent 40 years building an oil reserves shock absorber for exactly this war

Economics

The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic...

July 23, 2026

Ponsonby Post Office in Three Lamps

Economics

Ponsonby community up in arms over impending post office closure

June 7, 2025

Professor Kishore Mahbubani

Economics

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

August 27, 2020

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...

November 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

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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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The number of Fijians who are HIV positive has risen to at least 9000

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Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

Education Minister Aseri Radrodro

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Chinese language to be taught in Fiji schools to strengthen educational...

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

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Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide

Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

Commentary

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...