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Indonesia may appoint special envoy to South Pacific

April 1, 2016

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Fiji reports record 522 new cases of covid-19 – three more deaths

A graceful young Melanesian dancer shares her culture

Fiji

Melanesians gathering for ‘unique’ NZ cultural event to celebrate identity

Fiji

Attack on FBC reporter outside court stirs Fiji media protests

A decision on the waste-to-energy proposal can only be issued following the completion of the full technical and regulatory review

Fiji

Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project

University of the South Pacific Union president Reuben Colata and Professor Biman Prasad

Fiji

USP union warns of industrial action if fair pay is not...

November 28, 2023

Fiji

PMC students score well in AUT’s annual media awards

March 31, 2017

Fiji Rugby Union acting CEO Sale Sorovaki

Fiji

Fiji Rugby loses seat on World Council but will still be...

May 12, 2023

Fiji

NZ seeks ‘explanations’ over USP mismanagement allegations

May 24, 2019

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

Fiji

Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea...

May 29, 2023

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs Chairman Ratu Viliame Seruvakula and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji

Eroding trust in Fiji politics – lessons of 2025 and beyond

January 26, 2026

Fiji

New tech downgrades reading, harms critical thinking, says Fiji academic

May 26, 2016

Pasifika broadcasters

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

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June 6, 2023

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‘Healers, not harmers’ – Climate Warriors present COP23 declaration

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November 10, 2017

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Fiji

Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight...

October 29, 2025

To describe Beijing’s engagement as “neocolonial” is to invite comparisons with the activities of the Western coalition

Fiji

Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing...

March 11, 2023

FCOSS executive director Vani Catanasiga

Fiji

West Papua: ‘We’re proud Fijians today’ over Rabuka support

February 25, 2023

Fiji business people coming together for the common good

Fiji

NZ Fiji indigenous business leaders promote ‘solesolevaki’ boost for commerce

June 21, 2024

Communications Fiji Ltd news director Vijay Narayan talks to Acting Police Commissioner Juki Fong Chew

Fiji

News media ‘not an enemy or nuisance’, Fiji editor tells...

March 25, 2023

Fiji

Hot off the press – Wansolwara marks USP’s 50th anniversary

May 21, 2018

Fiji

Fiji sedition cases stir concern in Suva but life goes on

September 2, 2015

Wailea crime scene

Fiji

Fiji human rights activist concerned over ‘dead bodies, missing people’

December 22, 2021

Fiji journalists at the FMA's annual general meeting in March

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FMA praises Fiji media workers for press freedom climb but warns...

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May 4, 2026

Suva-based lawyer Sainiana Radrodro (left) and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement’s executive director Nalini Singh

Fiji

Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics

January 16, 2025

Fiji Journalists and media workers during the World Press Freedom day celebration

Fiji

Fiji criticised for legal ‘criminalisation’ of journalism in big drop in...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 8, 2022

Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) apologises to USP vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Fiji

‘We were orphaned since you left,’ Rabuka says in apology to...

February 17, 2023

Taeri MP and former journalist Ingrid Leary

Fiji

Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing

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June 4, 2025

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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

Fiji

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Fiji

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Fiji

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Fiji

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

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

Fiji

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

Fiji

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

Fiji

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

Fiji

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)

Fiji

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

Analysis

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Analysis

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom

Fiji

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

EDITOR'S PICKS

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

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

Fiji

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Video footage obtained by human rights researchers shows a crowd of angry Papuans throwing stones towards police infrastructure in Kobakma

Asia Report

West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning...

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...