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Half of the Marshall Islands' 50,000-strong population live in the capital city of Majuro

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Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research

June 6, 2025

It has been 40 years since the Rongelap people had to leave their homes due to nuclear fallout in May 1985

Marshall Islands

40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against nuclear colonialism

Once a tropical paradise thick with coconut palms, Runit Island is capped by a massive concrete structure

Marshall Islands

Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner

Part of the "inclusiveness" wall at Marshall Islands High School

Marshall Islands

Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight

Loading demolished house materials from Rongelap on board the Rainbow Warrior

Marshall Islands

From Rongelap to Mejatto – how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees

Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands

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Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US

April 8, 2024

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

Marshall Islands

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

March 13, 2024

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Oslo, 2017

Marshall Islands

Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands

March 1, 2024

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Marshall Islands

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

A freak wave smashes through doors at the Roi-Namur space tracking facility

Marshall Islands

Freak waves cause damage at US army base at Roi-Namur, shut...

January 22, 2024

President Hilda Heine being sworn in

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift

January 19, 2024

Rival flags of China and Taiwan

Marshall Islands

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

January 16, 2024

Cary Yan (left) and his associate Gina Zhou

Marshall Islands

Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific...

October 4, 2023

Pacific women show off the colours of the Morning Star flag of West Papuan "independence" at MACFEST2023

Marshall Islands

Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR

Pacific Journalism Review -

August 1, 2023

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

Marshall Islands

UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’

July 8, 2023

Displaced Bikini Islanders march on the US Embassy in Majuro

Marshall Islands

Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been...

June 30, 2023

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

Marshall Islands

Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy

Pacific Media Watch -

June 26, 2023

Marshall Islands Journal Giff Johnson and Tia Belau publisher Moses Uludong

Marshall Islands

Pacific journos urged not to let geopolitics ‘skew their narratives’

Pacific Media Watch -

June 19, 2023

Vanuatu PM Ishmael Kalsakau

Marshall Islands

Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM

June 7, 2023

The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Fiji

Marshall Islands

Claims of ‘issues, concerns and breaches’ emerge at USP

May 31, 2023

FSM Chief Negotiator Leo Falcam Jr (left) and US Presidential Envoy Joseph Yun in Pohnpei

Marshall Islands

US envoy gets two of three north Pacific nations to sign...

May 19, 2023

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

Marshall Islands

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

April 12, 2023

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Marshall Islands

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

March 29, 2023

Flags of the Pacific Islands Forum members

Marshall Islands

Pacific leaders commit to Forum reforms and ‘family unity’

February 26, 2023

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Marshall Islands

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

February 21, 2023

While the Marshall Islands was under US trusteeship, the US government detonated 67 atmospheric and ground weapons over a 12 year period

Marshall Islands

Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests

January 23, 2023

Bikini Atoll descendant Sosylina Jibas-Maddison

Marshall Islands

Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

Pacific Media Watch -

December 29, 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

Analysis

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

Marshall Islands

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

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

POPULAR POSTS

Justice For Palestine

Asia Report

95 lawyers demand stronger NZ stand over Israel amid Middle East...

NZ Palestinian advocate Dr Adnan Ali (right) speaking at yesterday's Henderson peace rally

Asia Report

NZ’s Islamic Council calls on Luxon to condemn Israel over ‘unprovoked’...

Crime

Vehicle issued to Fiji assistant minister involved in fatal accident –...

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

Analysis

Iran war: from the Middle East to America, history shows you...

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Zealand Palestinian artist and activist Rana Hamida

Asia Report

Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,

Asia Report

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Asia Report

Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements

It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

Analysis

A war on diplomacy itself – Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran

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

New Zealand Palestinian artist and activist Rana Hamida

Asia Report

Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme

Wartime Israeli paranoia

Asia Report

Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,

Asia Report

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Asia Report

Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements