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US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

NZ govt ‘welcomes’ US diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, Niue

September 27, 2023

A Japanese critic of the Fukushima wastewater discharge

Cook Islands

‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into Pacific

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Cook Islands

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater

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

Cook Islands

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

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Cook Islands

Rabuka, PIF ‘undermine credibility’ of Pacific experts over Japan’s nuclear waste dumping plan

Pasifika broadcasters

Cook Islands

‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

Pacific Media Watch -

June 6, 2023

Teremoana Maua-Hodges

Cook Islands

Fifteen Pasifika people on NZ King’s Birthday Honours List

June 5, 2023

Cook Islander Sergeant Alexander Brown

Cook Islands

‘Tears always fall’ – Cook Islanders remember their fallen Anzac heroes

April 25, 2023

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

‘Historic’ Cook Islands parliament vote to decriminalise homosexuality

April 15, 2023

ABC's Tahlea Aualiitia

Cook Islands

ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and its storytellers

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2023

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader

March 28, 2023

Flags of the Pacific Islands Forum members

Cook Islands

Pacific leaders commit to Forum reforms and ‘family unity’

February 26, 2023

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Cook Islands

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

The late Queen Elizabeth on her first visit to Fiji in December 1953

Cook Islands

Flags at half mast across the Pacific as leaders pay tribute...

September 10, 2022

Cook Islands PM Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Mark Brown confirmed as Cook Islands PM with slim grip

August 13, 2022

Cook Islands News front page 11082022

Cook Islands

Ruling party in Cook Islands closer to power after gaining 2...

August 12, 2022

Alanna Smith

Cook Islands

Cook Islands: Navigating the rise of third party politics and a...

August 11, 2022

Cook Islands national flag

Cook Islands

Cooks’ newcomers United look set to take five seats in election

August 2, 2022

Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe

Cook Islands

Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe – An exceptional Pacific life

August 1, 2022

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Cook Islands

Cook Islanders get ready to go to the polls – choice...

July 31, 2022

K’aute Pasifika's Mareta Matenga

Cook Islands

Pasifika wāhine launching new Waikato Pan Pacific health hub

July 25, 2022

American Samoan storms

Cook Islands

American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms

July 16, 2022

Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo

Cook Islands

Long term vision clinches Pacific Islands Forum rift deal in Suva

June 8, 2022

Pacific leaders in Suva

Cook Islands

Pacific leaders talk Micronesia, China and regional stability, security

June 7, 2022

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

Cook Islands

Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Cook Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Cook Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

BEARING WITNESS

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

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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APJS NEWSFILE

APJS newsfile

While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

POPULAR POSTS

Te Pati Māori candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke

Elections

NZ election 2023: Police investigate after invasion of Te Pāti Māori...

Tortured 19-year-old Gira Gwijangge

Human Rights

Indonesian police raid church office, home in Nduga – arrest six,...

Latifah Anum Siregar, director of the Alliance for Democracy for Papua (right), speaks

Culture

West Papua’s human rights issues under spotlight for Jubi film launch

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Decolonisation

Sogavare hails ‘new approach’ on West Papua – Wale calls PM...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea

Climate

Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice ‘drops...

Willie Jackson, former broadcaster and Labour's Broadcasting and Media Minister in the current government

Analysis

NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media...

Dunedin climate activist Rosemary Penwarden

Climate

NZ climate satirist sentenced to 125 hours of community work for...

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has shown no sign he is capable of leading the rejuvenation policy the party needs

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Labour’s disconnect with the electorate – and with...

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

Ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea

Climate

Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice ‘drops...

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters speaking

Climate

NZ election 2023: ‘Too cavalier’ – scientists call out Peters over...

Willie Jackson, former broadcaster and Labour's Broadcasting and Media Minister in the current government

Analysis

NZ election 2023: How a better funding model can help media...

Dunedin climate activist Rosemary Penwarden

Climate

NZ climate satirist sentenced to 125 hours of community work for...