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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters in Palau for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

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Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale

September 1, 2026

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

The Beachcomber Island resort off Nadi in Fiji

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Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco threat

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama (left) with Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna in Suva

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Pacific Islands Forum ‘on course’ as China issue casts shadow

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

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Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition

Pacific cyclones

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Fiji’s weather bureau predicts up to seven cyclones this season

October 24, 2022

Kiribati elections tomorrow

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Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote

August 14, 2024

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Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

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COP21: Forum’s Meg Taylor makes Pacific video plea to world leaders

December 5, 2015

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Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being...

April 21, 2017

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Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism

May 12, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

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June 3, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

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US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

Nauru's Baron Divavesi Waqa

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Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an...

February 28, 2023

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PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist

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March 15, 2018

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Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

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American Samoa tuna cannery closure prompts fisheries gifts to Tokelau

Mackenzie Smith -

May 29, 2017

Flags of the Pacific Islands Forum members

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Pacific leaders commit to Forum reforms and ‘family unity’

February 26, 2023

Rampant misinformation has undermined the covid-19 relief effort in Pacific countries such as Fiji

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Digital toolbox needed to counter Pacific ‘hotspot of misinformation’

July 19, 2022

US President Joe Biden (centre) participates in a trilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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‘Bringing war much closer to home’ – Pacific elders denounce AUKUS...

April 12, 2023

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Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum a major blow

July 11, 2022

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Pacific’s role and history of nuclear suffering boosted treaty success

October 25, 2017

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

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Top level Chinese delegation headed to Kiribati – questions over Kanton

May 25, 2022

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region

July 13, 2022

Former Kiribati President Anote Tong

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Kiribati ‘cooking something with China’, says ex-Kiribati president

July 14, 2022

Rival flags of China and Taiwan

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China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says...

January 16, 2024

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More frontline research ‘by Pacific for Pacific’ plea at climate summit

February 25, 2018

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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

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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

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

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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

Coronavirus

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

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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

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Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

Civil Society

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

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Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau

Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau

China

Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

EDITOR'S PICKS

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

The coastline on Futuna Island in southern Vanuatu

Analysis

Two small Pacific islands creating one big stink with France over...

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

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

A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July

Asia Report

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Analysis

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...