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Oceanographers deploy a buoy inside the Rose Atoll in American Samoa waters

American Samoa

Environmental groups, chiefs file lawsuit as US pushes American Samoa deep sea mining plans

October 21, 2026

US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce

American Samoa

US envoy seeks ‘termination’ of UN decolonisation committee, slams Pacific ‘junkets’

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

American Samoa

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

Cook Islands says bulk-buying and stockpiling places pressure on supply for everyone and is not necessary

American Samoa

A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific

American Samoa

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

President Donald Trump

American Samoa

Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire

January 22, 2025

The late former US President Jimmy Carter in his younger years

American Samoa

Pacific leaders remember Jimmy Carter’s ‘pivotal role’ for CNMI

December 31, 2024

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump

American Samoa

How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations

November 4, 2024

American Samoa

Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership

August 12, 2024

Academic and historian Dr Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard

American Samoa

Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer

June 2, 2024

The US Supreme Court

American Samoa

‘A stain on our country’: Criticism of ‘racist’ Supreme Court rulings

April 29, 2024

Associate dean Pacific Sir Collin Tukuitonga

American Samoa

Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir...

March 4, 2024

Fans at the FIFA World Football Cup semifinal match between Spain and Sweden at Auckland's Eden Park last night

American Samoa

FIFA boss wraps up trailblazing Pacific tour with stop in New...

August 16, 2023

(left) and UNICEF team leader Luisa Popo

American Samoa

American Samoa confirms a case of measles – day care centres...

April 22, 2023

Protesting American Samoa nurses

American Samoa

American Samoan nurses strike over failure to honour promised pay rises

December 20, 2022

American Samoan storms

American Samoa

American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms

July 16, 2022

A covid-19 vaccination site in Northern Marianas

American Samoa

Covid trends around the Pacific – deaths, lockdown and easing rules

March 29, 2022

Jerry Tuwai

American Samoa

Tokyo 2020 Day Five: Pacific athletes – who to watch and...

July 28, 2021

Trump election cartoon

American Samoa

With US D-day, the outcome won’t be simply a matter of...

November 4, 2020

Trump and Biden

American Samoa

Nik Dirga: The one word that really matters for US election...

November 1, 2020

American Samoa

American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

Environment

Solar energy plans for American Samoa

October 11, 2016

American Samoa

US, Pacific countries resolve treaty deadlock – fleet fishing again

March 8, 2016

American Samoa

Pacific Islanders debate paradox of ‘Oceanianism’ and global citizens

Shailendra Singh -

January 29, 2016

American Samoa

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

January 21, 2016

American Samoa

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

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

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

The French and Kanak flags flying high

Business

New Caledonia pro-independence leaders boycott EU critical minerals deal

Gaza family tents as far as they eye can see

Analysis

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

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,

Analysis

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

Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald

Asia Report

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

EDITOR'S PICKS

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

"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"

Decolonisation

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

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Editor's Picks

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...

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

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

Analysis

Shameful move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

"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"

Decolonisation

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

Veteran Filipino investigative journalist Philip Lustre

Asia Report

Arrest of Philip Lustre Jr. a ‘sad day for journalism in...

Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini

Editor's Picks

Gaza media: ‘Why we document history – even if accountability feels...