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Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

October 19, 2020

International Primary School Suva students cleaning up at the My Suva Picnic Park along the Nasese foreshore in the Fiji capital this week

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John Mitchell: Planet Ocean – tides are changing, but halt plastic horror

Author and columnist Fatima Bhutto

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Kamala Harris’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza ‘betrayal of true feminism’

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WJEC16: ‘That day I saw the power of media, and how it can be tragic’

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Timor-Leste turns 20: Colonial past feeds problems of neocolonial present

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A weeping mum from PNG and her long walk for a...

February 7, 2019

Volunteer rescuers from Auckland's Muriwai lifeguard squad

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Auckland floods a future sign – city needs stormwater systems fit...

January 29, 2023

Pro-Palestinian protesters carrying the Fiji and Tongan national flags

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War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is...

January 21, 2024

Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

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

March 13, 2026

Canadian billionaire James Grenon and NZME

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Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME –...

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March 14, 2025

Matu Tangi Matua Reid

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Martyn Bradbury: A sorrowful day for my beautiful city – Matu...

July 20, 2023

Carmen Parahi

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Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how...

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September 14, 2020

Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe

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Yamin Kogoya: The fate of Papua’s governor Enembe – where is...

February 6, 2023

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Chris Overland: O’Neill’s ‘monstrous’ plan trashes traditional land legacies

January 26, 2018

Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

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West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

October 5, 2023

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

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John Mitchell: Media freedom, public interest and The Fiji Times

Pacific Media Watch -

January 8, 2023

Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with Chinese President Xi Jinping

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Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic...

March 25, 2022

Hawai'i protest

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RIMPAC 2020 maritime exercises ‘all at sea’ as virus, protests put...

May 13, 2020

A Fiji news media conference

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Fiji Times: Fiji media freedom’s big win against ‘imperious rule’

Pacific Media Watch -

May 4, 2023

Newsroom subject to a NZ police inquiry

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The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the...

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May 18, 2021

Palestinian politician, MP and activist Khalida Jarrar

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‘All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell’...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 30, 2025

By killing the top Palestinian negotiator, Israel delivered a final and decisive message that Israel remains invested in violence, and in nothing else.

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Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure

August 1, 2024

Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe

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Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe – An exceptional Pacific life

August 1, 2022

China graphic

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Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but new threats to...

June 28, 2019

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A broken body and mind, but not a shattered spirit

Sri Krishnamurthi -

February 25, 2020

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Mackenzie Smith: Indonesia’s Pacific neglect highlights NZ media problem

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March 21, 2018

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Daily Post: Vanuatu is not China … questions over arbitrary powers

July 11, 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

Opinion

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"

Opinion

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

In the face of a denunciation by the Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte, the NUJP recalls that the Philippine media has borne the attacks of Duterte-era leadership

Asia Report

NUJP slams Sara Duterte for disparaging news groups, touting social media

Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987

Opinion

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

New Zealand Herald's editor-at-large Shayne Currie's "Media Insider" column

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‘I am now legally censored from even talking about being censored’...

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

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Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987

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Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

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

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Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

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The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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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

Opinion

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987

Opinion

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

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

Opinion

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles

ABC people get replaced by non-ABC people - and sooner rather than later we have Sinophobic news specials

Opinion

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible...

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...