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The Cook Islands has declared an outbreak of the viral infection dengue fever

Cook Islands

Pacific dengue cases surge but don’t cancel your holiday yet, says health expert

May 25, 2025

Former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

Cook Islands

Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm

Hundreds of people peacefully rallied at sea to protect the ocean from seabed activities in August 2024

Cook Islands

Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed mining order

Greenpeace International activists display a banner in front of the Maersk Launcher

Cook Islands

Trump signs ‘deeply dangerous’ order to fast-track deep sea mining

Pacific flags . . . advancing advance discussions on the the Blue Pacific

Cook Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

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

Cook Islands

Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation...

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

Cook Islands

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

March 5, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

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

February 28, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...

February 27, 2025

Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today

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Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

February 18, 2025

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

Cook Islands

‘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

Cook Islands

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

February 14, 2025

Opposition Cook Islands United Party leader Teariki Heather

Cook Islands

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

Cook Islands

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

February 11, 2025

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

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

February 10, 2025

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

Cook Islands

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

Cook Islands

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

December 13, 2024

Fuimaono Dr Dylan Asafo

Cook Islands

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

Cook Islands

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

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

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After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

Asia Report

Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

Samoa on election day in 2016

Democracy

Samoa parliament to be dissolved in June, election date to come

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini

Civil Society

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

Rassemblement National's Marie Le Pen

Decolonisation

French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot

EDITOR'S PICKS

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

Analysis

Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."

Decolonisation

Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

Analysis

Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

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

RSF has filed four complaints with the ICC over war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza and were at the Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to Fatma Hassoun

Asia Report

Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

Analysis

Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

After three months of forced starvation, desperate Palestinians were herded into caged food distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli governments

Asia Report

Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

Analysis

Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections