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
Wednesday, February 25, 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
    • Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler
      Asia Report

      The Palestine Chronicle: Roger Fowler’s legacy – a Palestinian tribute

      “Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
      Asia Report

      West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

      Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
      Civil Society

      Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at…

      Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
      Australia

      Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’…

      The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate
      Asia Report

      Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide…

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

Mining

7 days popular
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson
Mining

Green Party celebrates decision to decline ‘dead end’ Taranaki seabed mining

APR editor -
February 6, 2026
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga
Mining

Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, says Cook Is scientist

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena
Mining

Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

Pacific verdict on COP29
Mining

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

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"
Mining

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands delay, says Greenpeace

Big stick diplomacy – the willingness to use the military – was increasingly unleashed to assert US hegemony and business interests
Mining

Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West...

APR editor -
January 20, 2026
0
West Papuan villagers fleeing fighting between the Indonesian military and pro-independence militants to Sugapa, the capital of Intan Jaya regency
Mining

Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians

APR editor -
June 3, 2025
0
A PNG soldier guarding Bougainville's Panguna mine in 1989
Mining

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave...

APR editor -
June 7, 2025
0
Mining

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

APR editor -
January 28, 2026
0
Concern over the Pacific Ocean being hyper-militarised
Mining

Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on...

APR editor -
November 10, 2025
0
Nickel Prony Resources mining site in New Caledonia
Mining

SA company Sibaneye-Stillwater eyes New Caledonia nickel mining plant

APR editor -
September 17, 2024
0
Pacific Journalism Review researcher Justito Adipresto
Mining

Indonesian media ‘favours state voice’ on West Papua, PJR research finds

Pacific Media Watch -
August 11, 2023
0
Tax and contempt
Mining

News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change...

Pacific Media Watch -
January 26, 2025
0
Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville
Mining

Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

APR editor -
July 27, 2025
0
With the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of Nicolas Maduro, Washington has dug itself into a hole
Mining

Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did...

APR editor -
January 6, 2026
0
An aerial view of New Caledonia's Koniambo (KNS) mine site
Mining

New Caledonia’s mothballed nickel plant starts mass sackings process

APR editor -
July 29, 2024
0
More than 100 New Zealand police - half of them Samoan
Mining

‘Climate’ CHOGM success for Samoa but what’s in it for the...

APR editor -
October 29, 2024
0
The International Seabed Authority flag
Mining

Trump’s push on deep sea mining leaves Nauru’s commercial ambitions ‘out...

APR editor -
May 5, 2025
0
The aftermath of Indonesian forces burning temporary shelters in the Star Mountains, West Papua
Mining

Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...

APR editor -
March 2, 2025
0
French gendarmes on guard at Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers
Mining

France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political...

APR editor -
May 12, 2025
0
The Papuan Infantry Battalion in the Second World War
Mining

OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua

APR editor -
April 24, 2024
0
Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine
Mining

Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...

APR editor -
August 2, 2024
0
The Gambier Islands
Mining

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

APR editor -
June 11, 2025
0
Greenpeace activists from around the world have paddled and protested around MV Coco, a specialised offshore drilling vessel
Mining

Greenpeace slams deep sea mining bid as ‘rogue’ disregard for global...

APR editor -
April 30, 2025
0
Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump
Mining

Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis...

APR editor -
December 6, 2024
0
The Pacific 2025 year ahead
Mining

Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

APR editor -
January 4, 2025
0
Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021
Mining

How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval

APR editor -
March 12, 2025
0
123...11Page 1 of 11

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Mining

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

"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

Professor David Robievideo
Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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

A "Fake Ceasefire" banner at an Auckland protest against the Gaza genocide
Asia Report

PSNA calls on NZ government to punish Kiwi soldiers taking part...

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters
Democracy

Arrest and charges against British-Fijian national spark free speech concerns

Palestinian journalist Abdelhameed Hamdona
Asia Report

‘We returned from hell’ – CPJ’s report on Palestinian journalists tortured...

The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate
Asia Report

Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler
Asia Report

The Palestine Chronicle: Roger Fowler’s legacy – a Palestinian tribute

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
Asia Report

West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler
Civil Society

Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at...

Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels
Australia

Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’...

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

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
Asia Report

West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Fiji

Fiji PM Rabuka stands by anti-corruption body after arrest of critic

Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile
Analysis

How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ...

Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters
Democracy

Arrest and charges against British-Fijian national spark free speech concerns

Editor's Picks

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

The Palestine Chronicle: Roger Fowler’s legacy – a Palestinian tribute

February 25, 2026
“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

February 24, 2026
Activist, community strategist and musician Roger Fowler

Roger Fowler, a legend of the Aotearoa solidarity movement, dies at...

February 22, 2026
Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels

Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’...

February 22, 2026
The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

Activists tell of ‘apocalyptic’ ecocide on top of Israel’s Gaza genocide...

February 21, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

"Compulsory training in any particular ideology -- Zionism, fascism, liberalism -- is a body blow against university independence"

‘Antisemitism training’ at universities. Labor’s march to authoritarianism

February 19, 2026
NZ First leader Winston Peters (left) and Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Labour’s Chris Hipkins accuses Winston Peters of ‘pure racism’ in Parliament

February 19, 2026
Iran’s navy successfully launched the Sayyad-3G naval air defence missile

How a US-Israeli attack on Iran could crash UK, German, NZ...

February 23, 2026
“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

West Papuan filmmakers expose Merauke rainforest destruction in ‘siege’ doco

February 24, 2026
The Palau Senate

Palau court denies Senate bid to stop US deportee deal

February 21, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8076
  • Politics5798
  • Human Rights4525
  • Syndicate4325
  • Global3745
  • New Zealand3450
  • Indigenous2779
  • RNZ Pacific2503
  • Media2190
  • Pacific Media Watch1861
  • Asia Report1816
  • Democracy1787
  • Security1770
  • Fiji1633
  • Papua New Guinea1621
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