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Solomon Islands

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

July 8, 2023

Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

Solomon Islands

Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

TSIMA reporting from Palau - today's story in the Torres News

Solomon Islands

Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid

Solomon Islands

NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda (left) and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

Rabuka backs call for West Papuan independence group to fully join...

February 24, 2023

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Solomon Islands

First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...

April 4, 2022

Solomon Islands

Taiwan ‘regrets and condemns’ Solomons’ China switch

September 17, 2019

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi

Solomon Islands

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

April 22, 2024

PNPB protesters in Jayapura rally in support of full West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

West Papua solidarity group protests over arrest of 10 KNPB members

July 12, 2023

"Censored" . . . the cover image on In-Depth Solomons' revelations

Solomon Islands

‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan,...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 23, 2024

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Solomon Islands

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

July 15, 2026

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda (left) and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader

March 3, 2023

Construction of the Solomon Islands National Stadium in the capital Honiara was originally being sponsored by Taiwan but China is now shouldering the major costs of hosting the 2023 Pacific Games

Solomon Islands

Fears over China influence leads US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy

January 17, 2023

Get vaccinated against covid warning

Solomon Islands

Warnings to anti-vaxxers slowing rollout in Solomons and PNG

June 18, 2021

SIBC steps up digital storytelling training

Solomon Islands

SIBC journos gear up for the Pacific Games the MoJo way...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 26, 2023

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force officers train with replica guns supplied by the Chinese government

Solomon Islands

Leaked draft China-Solomon Islands security pact causes Pacific stir

March 25, 2022

Solomon Islands

Loss of Australian Associated Press (AAP) a tragedy for entire Pacific

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 4, 2020

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

New Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

May 2, 2024

Members of RAMSI military destroy surrendered weapons

Solomon Islands

Transform Aqorau: Rethinking Solomon Islands security – focus on arms unsustainable

April 5, 2022

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

Solomon Islands

Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy

Pacific Media Watch -

June 26, 2023

The West Papua delegation flying the Morning Star flag at the opening of the MACFEST 2023

Solomon Islands

West Papua high on agenda as MSG leaders set to convene...

August 19, 2023

Scott Morrison

Solomon Islands

Morrison arrives in Solomons in first visit by an Australian PM...

June 3, 2019

Facebook ban

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2020

Solomon Islands

Imrana Jalal: Paradise lost – shocking report on Pacific violence against...

April 1, 2016

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu promote MSG support for West Papua

May 13, 2016

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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

Coronavirus

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

Solomon Islands

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

Bearing Witness

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

An United Israel Appeal tour

Asia Report

Labor and Coalition vote down bill to strip tax breaks from...

An idyllic scene at Taga Beach, Tinian, in the Northern Marianas

Analysis

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C...

Islanders in outrigger canoes selling tropical fruits off Dobu in the Solomon Sea

Climate

Debt in the Pacific – systemic and current threats to regional...

TSIMA reporting from Palau - today's story in the Torres News

Solomon Islands

Australia snubs Torres Strait in Melanesian Spearhead Group bid

EDITOR'S PICKS

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

Asia Report

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Democracy

‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Caitlin Johnstone: Three major revelations about the Gaza holocaust in the...

"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror

Analysis

Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...

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

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

Asia Report

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (left) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Democracy

‘Treasury can write what it likes’, says Peters defending Pacific Islands...

"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror

Analysis

Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but...

Thai protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok condemn the behaviour of Israeli tourists

Asia Report

‘Take Thailand Back’ – Thais protest against ‘disrespectful’ Israeli tourists in...