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

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

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

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 after mosque discovery

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih

Asia Report

Israeli attack on hospital to kill Gaza journalist condemned as ‘heinous’

Renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot by an Israeli sniper in the head on 11 May 2022

Asia Report

Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Film names Israeli soldier but Israel...

Gordon Campbell's Scoop column on the Pope and the Israeli Institute

Asia Report

Absurd attack on free speech by Israel Institute over social media...

Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages

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AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with...

EDITOR'S PICKS

How Palestine has been swallowed up by Greater Israel expansionism since the 1948 Nakba

Analysis

As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in...

Rongelap Islanders

Climate

Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French...

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots

Decolonisation

New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at...

New Caledonia's Congress in Nouméa

Decolonisation

Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining

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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

How Palestine has been swallowed up by Greater Israel expansionism since the 1948 Nakba

Analysis

As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in...

Rongelap Islanders

Climate

Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French...

A Girmit exhibition in Wellington

Culture

Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle

Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih

Asia Report

Israeli attack on hospital to kill Gaza journalist condemned as ‘heinous’