CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz
      Analysis

      Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar…

      A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism
      Asia Report

      Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

      Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned
      Crime

      Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn…

      Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend
      Editor’s Picks

      All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga…

      Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan
      Analysis

      Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted…

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Interview

Interview

Latest
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya
Interview

NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead of Fiji election

APR editor -
July 17, 2026
Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry
Interview

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged to reveal backers

Protesters from Americans Abroad Against the War (AAAW) taking part in a recent Auckland march against the US war on Iran
Interview

‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in war with US

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr
Interview

Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after China missile test

A "Stop RIMPAC forever" poster.
Interview

RIMPAC 2026: Part 2 – Hawai’ian activist torpedoes lies about US ‘security and respect’

The leftwing heart of the Labour Party were upset by Starmer's support for Israel.
Interview

Palestine Action ‘terror’ sentencing, Starmer resignation but Labour change unlikely over...

APR editor -
June 24, 2026
0
Pro-Palestine protesters set off a blood-red flare outside the US Consulate in the peaceful March for Peace demonstration in Auckland
Interview

Paul Hopkinson: Why NZ’s ‘Free Palestine’ party seeks to put Gaza...

APR editor -
June 23, 2026
0
Iranian American international affairs professor Vali Nasr
Interview

Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a...

APR editor -
June 20, 2026
0
Norwegian physician Dr Mads Gilbert
Interview

Doctor Israel banned after 40 years in Gaza’s hospitals speaks out

Pacific Media Watch -
June 14, 2026
0
Mousa Taher
Interview

Cry, my beloved New Zealand. Another Kiwi abandoned to the IDF

APR editor -
May 31, 2026
0
"The face of courage vs the face of evil"
Interview

‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...

APR editor -
May 29, 2026
0
Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails
Interview

Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin...

Pacific Media Watch -
May 29, 2026
0
Author Shana Chandra
Interview

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

APR editor -
April 28, 2026
0
Associate law professor Maryam Jamshidi
Interview

Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...

APR editor -
April 21, 2026
0
Dr Rami Khouri
Interview

US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power...

APR editor -
April 19, 2026
0
Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28
Interview

Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade

APR editor -
April 14, 2026
0
This 18-month-old child’s father, Osama Abu Nassar, was detained near the al-Maghazi refugee camp
Interview

‘Torture and genocide’ – UN expert Francesca Albanese denounces Israeli abuse...

APR editor -
March 28, 2026
0
Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy
Interview

‘Israel First’ – ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy on why Netanyahu led...

APR editor -
March 25, 2026
0
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman interviewing economist Dr Laleh Khalili
Interview

End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global...

APR editor -
March 22, 2026
0
Iranian missile damage in central Israel at an undisclosed location
Interview

Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace...

APR editor -
March 18, 2026
0
Iranian Israeli political activist and editor Orly Noy
Interview

As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West...

APR editor -
March 17, 2026
0
Interview

Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States...

APR editor -
March 15, 2026
0
Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Interview

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...

APR editor -
March 13, 2026
0
TVNZ 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Interview

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver

APR editor -
March 13, 2026
0
New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
Interview

‘I know she’d be really proud’ – NZ’s first Pasifika heritage...

APR editor -
March 5, 2026
0
Solidarity author Eugene Doyle with Cuban Ambassador Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez
Interview

Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law

APR editor -
February 28, 2026
0
Executive director of B’Tselem Yuli Novak
Interview

Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head

APR editor -
January 17, 2026
0
Load more

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

Load more

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

Load more

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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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 Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry
Interview

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025
Development

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya as he looked three years ago
Asia Report

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed...

The spectacle and symbolism of assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral
Analysis

How Tehran turned Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral into a media event

EDITOR'S PICKS

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz
Analysis

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism
Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned
Crime

Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn...

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend
Editor's Picks

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

Load more

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

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz
Analysis

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism
Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend
Editor's Picks

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan
Analysis

Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...

Editor's Picks

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

July 20, 2026
A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

July 20, 2026
Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned

Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn...

July 20, 2026
Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

July 20, 2026
Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...

July 20, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

July 16, 2026
Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

July 17, 2026
Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

July 16, 2026
Heavy police presence as Jewish Australians protest against Israel outside the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Antisemitic, really? Jewish leader speaks out on Australia’s Royal Commission hypocrisy

July 14, 2026
Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

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

July 15, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8413
  • Politics6227
  • Human Rights4861
  • Syndicate4749
  • Global4162
  • New Zealand3663
  • Indigenous3084
  • RNZ Pacific2657
  • Media2355
  • Pacific Media Watch2130
  • Asia Report2118
  • Democracy2053
  • Security1980
  • Military1878
  • Justice1815
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz