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Making sense of the scary Philippines election – 10 seconds into the future?

May 12, 2022

The policemen's wives spoke for their families

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Warning signs have been flashing, PNG police housing needs ignored

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Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says digital expert

Professor Biman Prasad addressing the Pacific Update conference

Economics

‘Other people’s wars’, climate crisis – South Pacific not in good shape, warns Fiji leader

Economics

PNG bid to buy Rio Tinto’s shares in mine company ‘unacceptable’ – Momis

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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

June 27, 2026

Fiji's Fiscal Review Committee chair Richard Naidu

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Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed,...

April 27, 2023

NZ climate action protest

Economics

Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’

February 3, 2021

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Economics

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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‘We’re victims of global power play’ – Pacific backs India, says...

May 22, 2023

News Corp Google inquiry

Economics

Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate

Pacific Media Watch -

February 2, 2021

PNG's Trade Minister Richard Maru

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

October 18, 2023

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500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security

November 15, 2018

Economics

Tax havens among biggest foreign owners of NZ, says CAFCA

April 9, 2016

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Economics

MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

All smiles FTimes

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Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering

March 1, 2021

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama

Economics

Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint

July 14, 2022

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Climate Change Commission plan ‘big challenge’ for New Zealand

February 1, 2021

Dr Ashley Bloomfield

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Eight new cases of coronavirus in NZ – $12.1b rescue package...

March 18, 2020

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Agnes Masoe: Accounting and the Pacific advantage

April 30, 2016

Economics

Savu border unsolved, but Timor-Leste leader praises ‘amazing’ Indonesia link

May 29, 2018

Economics

Indonesia risks ending up with a doomed ‘can’t-do’ climate plan

July 17, 2018

Papua New Guinea's fuel crisis

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Puma Energy shuts down PNG nationwide – seeks US$100m to resume...

February 20, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Attorney-General Siromi Turaga

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

Pacific Media Watch -

January 9, 2023

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese

Economics

UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...

July 4, 2025

Chinese oil supplies from Iran in Washington's sights

Economics

Trump’s naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz actually targets China

April 16, 2026

Protesters at Molodoï, Strasbourg, demanding the release of Kanak indigenous political prisoners being detained in France

Economics

UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding...

October 26, 2024

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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"

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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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Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

The Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March (left) and Labour's Phil Twyford

Asia Report

PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements...

The Realm of New Zealand's four leaders

Cook Islands

New Zealand says its ties with its Realm countries remain strong...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

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US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

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Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

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Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

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US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

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Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

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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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Secular Jewish socialist and peace activist Tony Greenstein

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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs...

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

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US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...