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Samoa's Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Agafili Shem Leo

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Samoan journalists blast ‘ridiculous’ media restrictions at Commonwealth summit

Pacific Media Watch -

September 13, 2024

PNG Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu

Fiji

PNG Communications Minister calls for media to ‘protect, preserve Pacific identity’

Fiji

‘We’re stuck in the river – please come quickly’ cry before being swept away

Fiji

Motion Impossible: ‘Enforcer’ Bainimarama still Fiji’s PM

Pacific Islands Forum 2022 in Suva

Fiji

Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human rights

RSF's World Press Freedom Index 2023 launching today

Fiji

Pacific eyes on media as Blinken joins RSF’s 2023 World Press...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2023

TI Pacific corruption report

Fiji

Transparency watchdog seeks US help to tackle Pacific corruption

February 12, 2022

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence among a sea of Palestinian flags

Fiji

Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel in spite of UN...

June 26, 2025

Pacific Report

Fiji flag to remain unchanged for foreseeable future, says PM

August 18, 2016

Reporter Rakesh Kumar (from left) and chief editor Fred Wesley from The Fiji Times, and editor Samantha Magick of Islands Business

Fiji

Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped

Pacific Media Watch -

April 6, 2023

Bauer Media RNZ

Fiji

NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point

Sri Krishnamurthi -

April 6, 2020

Cousins Kapieri Samisoni and Tristan Petueli embrace their Rotuman culture through dance

Fiji

NZ celebrates Rotuman as part of Pacific Language Week series

May 14, 2025

The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network

Fiji

Fiji solidarity network welcomes Gaza ceasefire but calls for ‘justice, accountability’

January 24, 2025

Fiji

29 people dead, 89 injured as Fiji sets up cyclone Winston...

February 23, 2016

Fiji

Vakatawa approached by Les Bleus coach for Six Nations

January 13, 2016

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

Fiji

Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

Fiji's Health Secretary Dr James Fong

Fiji

Fiji covid death rate among unvaxxed 17 times higher than for...

February 22, 2022

Fijian troops being briefed

Fiji

50 Fiji troops join Australian, PNG forces boosting Honiara security

November 30, 2021

Fiji

Cyclone Winston damage in Fiji runs to $476m, says disaster office

March 8, 2016

Thousands of indigenous Papuans protest in Wamena March 2022

Fiji

Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua...

April 22, 2022

Fiji

Jakarta has something to hide over West Papua, says Wenda

May 26, 2016

Fiji

Shailendra Singh: How journalists can walk the Pacific climate change talk

Shailendra Singh -

October 18, 2017

Co-editors Vijay Naidu and Claire Slatter at the launch of ‘Remembering Epeli Hau’ofa'

Fiji

A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa

March 18, 2024

Fiji

Fiji may change mind over PACER Plus if labour mobility issues...

February 18, 2016

All Media and Democracy Workshop participants were required to submit stories each day

Fiji

Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy

Pacific Media Watch -

June 26, 2023

Fiji

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

May 26, 2016

Possible "kingmakers"? . . . Members of the opposition Sodelpa party executive

Fiji

Fiji elections: Bainimarama’s FijiFirst party fails to gain parliament majority

December 18, 2022

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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

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

Indonesian military forces conduct operations in Intan Jaya, Papua province

Asia Report

Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands

The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I

Analysis

Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win

Fiji Minister for Defence Pio Tikoduadua

Fiji

Injured Fiji police officer in checkpoint incident ‘is my daughter’, says...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Fiji

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

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

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Fiji

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel