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Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves

Cook Islands

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

July 21, 2025

The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution celebrations

Cook Islands

Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations

Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand on August 4

Cook Islands

Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations

Under the Cook Islands constitution, New Zealand cannot pass laws for the Cook Islands

Cook Islands

Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says poll

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,

Cook Islands

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements

June 20, 2025

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

Cook Islands

Why New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over...

June 19, 2025

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

Cook Islands

Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone

June 2, 2025

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...

May 25, 2025

Former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna

Cook Islands

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

May 19, 2025

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...

May 6, 2025

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

April 25, 2025

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

Cook Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

March 28, 2025

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

Cook Islands

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

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

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 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?

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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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Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville

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Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence flies higm among dozens of climate activists - from both the Netherlands and abroad - gathered on a square outside the court

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An "Israel-USA - blood on your hands" banner at a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland last Saturday

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If successful, the ICJ ruling could have major ramifications for international law and how climate change disputes are litigated

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ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call...

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It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

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China's BeiDou communications satellite

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The Freedom Flotilla's Handala crew in emegency positions just before the Israeli military seizure of their humanitarian aid ship on Saturday

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‘We pose no threat – our aim is to break the...

New Zealand pro-Palestinian protesters march against genocide

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Debunking the theological gaslighting of Israel-supporting Imams

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

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights chair Shamima Ali

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Fiji ‘failing’ the Gaza genocide and humanity test, says rights group

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

Climate

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest...

China's BeiDou communications satellite

Analysis

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new...

The Freedom Flotilla's Handala crew in emegency positions just before the Israeli military seizure of their humanitarian aid ship on Saturday

Analysis

‘We pose no threat – our aim is to break the...