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NZ Finance Minister Nicola Willis

Economics

Budget 2025: Pacific Ministry faces major cuts, yet new initiatives aim for development

May 22, 2025

Belden Namah

Economics

PNG opposition’s Namah calls for end to ‘martial law-like’ restrictions

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 relationship

A two-year investigation by Inland Revenue

Economics

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

SPREP’s Director-General Sefanaia Nawadra

Economics

High Seas Treaty welcome news for SPREP in uncertain times

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

Economics

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

December 5, 2024

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

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

Economics

New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities

April 19, 2022

Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon

Economics

NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in...

July 27, 2022

Fiji's first coup leader and former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka with RNZ

Economics

Sitiveni Rabuka takes Fiji campaign trail to Aotearoa New Zealand

June 26, 2022

Sugar Minister Charan Jeath Singh

Economics

Fiji’s sugar minister condemns ‘disappearance’ of FICAC abuse allegation files

January 14, 2023

PNG's deputy opposition leader James Nomane

Economics

‘Reckless’ kina devaluation spells disaster for PNG, says Nomane

May 8, 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

Economics

Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of...

September 13, 2017

PNG's Trade Minister Richard Maru

Economics

PNG’s trade minister pledges China, Indon free trade deals are ‘in...

October 18, 2023

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

Economics

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

July 14, 2022

Economics

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

June 13, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Economics

‘Let’s talk’ – Rabuka hints at ‘national unity’ government for Fiji

June 13, 2024

Recent aid arrangements are emblematic of the geopolitical tussle playing out in the Pacific between China and the US and its allies

Economics

Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...

December 17, 2024

Protesters in New Zealand's "mega strike" today

Economics

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

October 23, 2025

Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin

Economics

China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

February 15, 2025

Economics

Investments minister ‘rules out’ more palm oil plantations in Papua

March 3, 2020

China's regional Pacific ambitions

Economics

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

May 27, 2022

The Kiribati Parliament House

Economics

What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?

August 5, 2024

Economics

Lack of confidence in US leadership adds to coronavirus panic

March 17, 2020

NZ's climate National Adaptation Plan

Economics

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

August 4, 2022

During the visit of the USS Cincinnati to Majuro in July, Marshallese veterans were honoured with a dinner and programme on board the US Navy vessel

Economics

Pacific Islands military veterans hope for US action over benefits

July 28, 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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Fiji Minister for Defence Pio Tikoduadua

Crime

Injured Fiji police officer in checkpoint incident ‘is my daughter’, says...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

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Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

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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

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Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel