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
Thursday, November 5, 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
    • The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
      Asia Report

      PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate…

      US midterm elections in the Pacific
      American Samoa

      Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave…

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

      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

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

Military

Featured posts
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders
Military

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

APR editor -
November 4, 2026
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
Military

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

Fiji Military commander Major-General Jone Kalouniwai
Military

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

Journalist Mohamed Hassan
Military

Al Jazeera – its vital place in the global media landscape is more important than ever

A section of the cover of New Zealand author Peter Macky's new book, Gaza: Anatomy of a Genocide
Military

NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai
Military

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

APR editor -
November 1, 2026
0
Activist Achmat Eesau
Military

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

APR editor -
October 31, 2026
0
"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else
Military

‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

APR editor -
October 31, 2026
0
Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong
Military

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

APR editor -
October 30, 2026
0
A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists
Military

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

APR editor -
October 29, 2026
0
Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires
Military

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

APR editor -
October 29, 2026
0
Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,
Military

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

APR editor -
October 28, 2026
0
Another four years of far-right rule would pose an immediate threat to Palestinian communities and their rights inside Israel
Military

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...

APR editor -
October 27, 2026
0
PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi with her 95-year-old grandfather in Hebron
Military

PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...

APR editor -
October 27, 2026
0
I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide
Military

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

APR editor -
October 26, 2026
0
“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.
Military

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

David Robie -
October 25, 2026
0
"It takes an enormous amount of courage and a reservoir of humility (to think less of oneself and more of others) to say the things needed to be said about violence, injustice and hypocrisy"
Military

Aisake Casimira: How Christian Zionism has become hitched to the chariot...

APR editor -
October 25, 2026
0
Palestinians in Gaza face a daily struggle for food
Military

Palestine Forum calls on NZ to act against ‘weaponised, engineered’ Gaza...

APR editor -
October 24, 2026
0
As a second-tier PIF partner, Israel will support Pacific development priorities in areas such as water management, desalination, agriculture and climate change adaptation
Military

‘Test of regionalism’ – Pacific churches call for review of Israel’s...

David Robie -
October 23, 2026
0
PIF Secretary General Baron Divavesi Waqa welcomed Israel’s Ambassador to Fiji and Pacific Island Countries, Maya Yaron, and Head of MASHAV, Ambassador Eynat Shlein,
Military

Israel votes against decolonisation for Pacific at UN – then says...

APR editor -
October 23, 2026
0
Fiji Deputy PM Viliame Gavoka
Military

Israel’s relationship with Pacific is ‘biblical, ageless, real’, says Fiji deputy...

APR editor -
October 22, 2026
0
West Papuan researcher and human rights defender Rosa Moiwend
Military

West Papuan civil society calls for UN and Pacific access to...

APR editor -
October 22, 2026
0
Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see
Military

NZ’s foreign policy obligation to confront Israel’s Gaza genocide

APR editor -
October 22, 2026
0
Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald
Military

‘Please explain’, Palestine Forum tells NZ over Israeli-Pacific Islands Forum ‘partnership’

APR editor -
October 21, 2026
0
PIF Secretary-General Baron Divavesi Waqa with Israeli Ambassador Maya Yaron
Military

Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

APR editor -
October 21, 2026
0
Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement
Military

Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Wendy Bacon -
October 21, 2026
0
The joint Keris Woomera 26 exercise between the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and Australian Defence Force (ADF)
Military

Advocacy group condemns joint Australian military training with Indonesia and ‘silence...

APR editor -
October 19, 2026
0
123...92Page 1 of 92

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

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

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Military

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
Military

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
Military

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"
Military

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...

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)
Military

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

A Lakapi Samoa billboard in Apia
Global

National Olympic body to oversee arrangement for rugby in Samoa

Fiji Military commander Major-General Jone Kalouniwai
Military

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

Gold medal weightlifter George Speight
Editor's Picks

Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific
American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

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

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

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

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"
Asia Report

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

US midterm elections in the Pacific
American Samoa

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

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

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

Editor's Picks

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

November 4, 2026
US midterm elections in the Pacific

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

November 4, 2026
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

November 4, 2026
Gold medal weightlifter George Speight

Former coup leader George Speight wins Oceania powerlifting gold for Fiji

November 4, 2026
Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

November 3, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

November 1, 2026
US midterm elections in the Pacific

Republicans make early US Pacific electoral gains – but blue wave...

November 4, 2026
Activist Achmat Eesau

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

October 31, 2026
"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

October 31, 2026
Pasifika voters discuss what's important to them this NZ election

‘Our people don’t want handouts’ – Pasifika voters seek action on...

November 2, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8717
  • Politics6548
  • Human Rights5143
  • Syndicate5081
  • Global4475
  • New Zealand3825
  • Indigenous3339
  • RNZ Pacific2786
  • Media2490
  • Pacific Media Watch2377
  • Asia Report2291
  • Democracy2280
  • Security2075
  • Military2041
  • Justice2030
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