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The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Solomon Islands

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 2024

Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at ‘turning point’

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title

Solomon Islands

‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on New Caledonia mission

Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland

Solomon Islands

Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for swift end to Israeli occupation

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Solomon Islands

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports

Solomon Islands

Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet

Pacific Media Watch -

July 26, 2024

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

July 20, 2024

Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy

Solomon Islands

Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2024

Panelists on the "Gender and Media in the Pacific" panel

Solomon Islands

‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2024

Fiji Women's Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh

Solomon Islands

Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all...

July 13, 2024

Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

Solomon Islands

New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer

June 29, 2024

Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Baron Waqa ‘more than able’ to lead Pacific Islands Forum, says...

June 15, 2024

Freelance Gaza journalist Moussa Al Zaanoun

Solomon Islands

NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2024

New Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Jeremiah Manele is new Solomon Islands PM with ‘100 day plan’

May 2, 2024

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has issued a statement saying Parliament will be closed to the public for the election of the prime minister.

Solomon Islands

Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of...

May 2, 2024

Second PM candidate Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Ready, set, go in Solomons PM race – Jeremiah Manele vs...

May 1, 2024

SI prime ministerial candidate Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands

April 30, 2024

Solomon Islands Coat of Arms

Solomon Islands

‘To lead is to serve’ – Governor-General to call PM election...

April 27, 2024

Early morning sun as citizens of Solomon Islands go about their day lobbying

Solomon Islands

No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government...

April 23, 2024

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi

Solomon Islands

More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting...

April 22, 2024

Incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East...

April 20, 2024

Solomon Islanders queuing up to cast their ballots

Solomon Islands

‘The right person’: What did Solomon Islanders vote for?

April 18, 2024

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi told RNZ Pacific all elections materials have been distributed and the country is ready to go to the polls

Solomon Islands

Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara

April 17, 2024

Solomon Islands voters board the MV Taimareho 1

Solomon Islands

Ships in the night – final day of election campaigning in...

April 15, 2024

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) voted

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes

April 7, 2024

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

Solomon Islands

Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference

March 1, 2024

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

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

John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

Arts

Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...

A "Netanyahu wanted for child killing" placard at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland this month

Asia Report

ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders ‘wake up call’ for NZ,...

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Decolonisation

Peters urges France to keep ‘open mind’ on new path for...

"Killing long after they fall"

Asia Report

Lack of Gaza aid, Israeli impunity puts Palestinians at risk over...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Emmanuel Tjibaou speaking after his election as new president of the oro-independence Union Calédonienne party

Decolonisation

Mixed reactions to Tjibaou’s election to key Kanak pro-independence party

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

Arts

Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant

Analysis

‘Wanted’ for war crimes over Gaza: Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant face ICC...

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

Rising Tide Newcastle coal port protest protesters on Sunday

Australia

Climate protests to continue despite 170 charged in Newcastle ‘protestival’

News outlets around the world carried reports of the Hīkoi

Culture

Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Decolonisation

Peters urges France to keep ‘open mind’ on new path for...

Emmanuel Tjibaou speaking after his election as new president of the oro-independence Union Calédonienne party

Decolonisation

Mixed reactions to Tjibaou’s election to key Kanak pro-independence party