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Cook Islands Christian Movement interim secretary William Framhein believes that the country should be declared a "Christian nation"

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Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation after mosque discovery

March 6, 2025

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

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Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says Brown – wins confidence vote

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

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Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaking at a media conference in Avarua after returning from China

Cook Islands

‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China...

February 17, 2025

Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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‘Clandestine’ Cook Islands-China deal ‘damaged’ NZ relationship, says Clark

February 16, 2025

Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin

Cook Islands

China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

February 15, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (centre) during his trip to China

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China confirms ‘in-depth exchange’ with Cook Islands as New Zealand faces...

February 14, 2025

Opposition Cook Islands United Party leader Teariki Heather

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Cook Islands opposition files no-confidence motion against PM

February 13, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown with China's Ambassador to the Pacific Qian Bo

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China: Cook Islands’ relationship with Beijing ‘should not be restrained’

February 11, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Cook Islands crisis: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the...

February 10, 2025

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

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Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

Pacific Media Watch -

February 9, 2025

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

February 9, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Cook Islands ‘not qualified’ for UN membership, says prime minister

January 3, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

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Cook Islands govt fends off cyberattacks, passes bill to strengthen financial...

December 13, 2024

Fuimaono Dr Dylan Asafo

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Cook Islands seeks ‘decolonisation’ of international law at ICJ

December 9, 2024

"USP leadership in crisis" banner at an earlier staff protest against the regional Pacific university's management

Cook Islands

Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes

December 7, 2024

Post-mortems on the US presidential election

Cook Islands

Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump

November 7, 2024

Te Ipukarea Society's Kelvin Passfield

Cook Islands

US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if...

November 6, 2024

Cook Islands PM Mark Brown

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Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia

November 2, 2024

The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Cook Islands

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 2024

Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

Cook Islands

Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at...

October 30, 2024

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title

Cook Islands

‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

October 24, 2024

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

Cook Islands

Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

Cook Islands

Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership

August 12, 2024

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Cook Islands

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

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

Cook Islands

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

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 Robie

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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

Protesters in Auckland call for a permanent end to the war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and for justice

Analysis

New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable

Besma at the "Free Palestine" rally in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

Asia Report

NZ rally honours ‘voice of Palestine’ poet and marks Christchurch massacre

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

A crew member on board the RAN frigate HMAS Stuart monitors the Chinese Navy's missile destroyer Zunyi and the supply ship Weishanhu

Asia Report

Australia’s defence – navigating US-China tensions in changing world

EDITOR'S PICKS

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement

New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

Asia Report

Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself

Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

Culture

Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change

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

NZ's Foreign Minister Winston Peters now more optimistic

Asia Report

US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister

This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Climate

Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Asia Report

Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel

"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

Asia Report

‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement