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US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

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Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

Fisheries

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen

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Trump’s fishing decision threatens Pacific communities, NGO warns

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

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

Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa

Fisheries

American Samoa environmental group sues US govt over deep sea mining...

October 1, 2026

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

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Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...

August 26, 2026

The Gambier Islands

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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

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Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit

July 30, 2024

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Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

January 28, 2026

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

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Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

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‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage...

October 19, 2025

PNG Jackson Kiakari

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Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...

April 3, 2021

The Indonesian fishing boats reportedly seized by the PNG Defence Force

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Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2022

Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant

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Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

August 8, 2023

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

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Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Fisheries

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

Spawning kawaka

Fisheries

Fijian policymaker calls for an ‘inspired’ defence of world oceans

June 8, 2022

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

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Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

Fisheries

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

Fisheries

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

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

March 29, 2023

The CIVICUS Monitor report

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Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report

November 10, 2021

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Fisheries

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

August 7, 2025

Tuvalu from the air

Fisheries

World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

January 29, 2024

Rescue of Tiro II crewman

Fisheries

Fiji police question rescued fishing boat crew over alleged beheading

May 22, 2021

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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 Military commander Major-General Jone Kalouniwai

Democracy

Fiji military chief urges accountability to the people amid coup immunity...

The Solomon Islands coat of arms on Parliament buildings in Honiara

Democracy

Solomon Islands government moves to end ‘unstable coalitions, party defections’

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (centre) has promised to press on with tabling the bill

Democracy

Fiji PM Rabuka under pressure ahead of crucial vote on constitutional...

A press conference at the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua) office in Jayapura on 2 November 2026 discussing the shooting of three civilians in Nduga Regency on 23 October 2026

Decolonisation

Nduga shooting victims’ families ask Papua Legal Aid Institute to oversee...

EDITOR'S PICKS

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make electoral gains across US Pacific territories

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Crime

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

Gold medal weightlifter George Speight

Editor's Picks

Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Analysis

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

MOST COMMENTS

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

US midterm elections in the Pacific

American Samoa

Republicans make electoral gains across US Pacific territories

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Crime

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

Gold medal weightlifter George Speight

Editor's Picks

Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Analysis

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished