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NZ election 2023: Growing Pasifika population equals greater electoral power

September 14, 2023

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

Economics

Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough

Economics

New Caledonia celebrates Bastille Day and thinks about independence

Dr Ashley Bloomfield

Economics

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

Propped up economy

Economics

Brendon Blue: Non-homeowners are paying the cost of the covid-19 recovery

Fiji's port in the capital of Suva

Economics

Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries

April 3, 2025

Attitudes such as ignoring the suffering of Gaza yield the same harvest everywhere: dehumanisation, insecurity, and the corrosion of civic trust

Economics

Academics call for divestment from NZ pensions fund implicated in Gaza

February 3, 2026

Economics

PNG deep sea mining project another ‘failed investment’, says ex-minister

November 14, 2018

Some Americans are fighting every day to save the babies of Cuba

Economics

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

August 9, 2026

Economics

COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit

December 9, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Economics

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

June 27, 2026

Economics

#COP21: The Paris climate agreement: The real work starts now

December 14, 2015

Economics

Labor’s climate policy too little, too late – we must run...

February 25, 2020

Vulupindi Haus, Port Moresby

Economics

Hackers hit PNG financial hub, fail in bid to hold state...

October 30, 2021

Economics

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

June 17, 2024

US President Trump wrote in his social media post

Economics

‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2026

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday

Economics

COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

November 11, 2025

Fiji Parliament . . . big salary increases for the President, Speaker, Ministers, Assistant Ministers, and MPs

Economics

The Fiji Times: Public outcry over Fijians’ MPs pay rise

May 26, 2024

Papua New Guinea's fuel crisis

Economics

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

February 20, 2023

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Economics

NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New...

June 1, 2024

Fiji Finance Minister and DPM Dr Biman Prasad

Economics

Fiji’s Dr Prasad unveils $4.8b budget as deficit widens

June 30, 2025

Beyond the Bubble

Economics

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

July 5, 2026

Economics

US President Obama Insists TPP means America will write the rules...

Evening Report -

November 6, 2015

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)

Economics

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

August 17, 2026

Economics

Despite Trump, 2017 should be another top year for global wind

January 19, 2017

Economics

China plans ‘greener, cleaner’ industry but faces complex challenges

June 20, 2016

New Zealand's new energy fund initiative underpins the government’s aspirational goal of having 100 percent of electricity generated by renewable sources by 2035

Economics

10 smart ways NZ can be strategic about addressing climate change...

August 11, 2023

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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

POPULAR POSTS

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

Civil Society

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

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

West Papuan advocate Paula Makabory

Asia Report

West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...

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

Economics

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

The coastline on Futuna Island in southern Vanuatu

Analysis

Two small Pacific islands creating one big stink with France over...

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

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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 Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Economics

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...