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Solomon Islands

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

July 8, 2023

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

Solomon Islands

Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other countries

Solomon Star's report on China visit 17July23

Solomon Islands

NZ govt says it ‘honoured’ Solomons support, rejects Sogavare’s claims

Peterson Boso

Solomon Islands

Blogger Boso to file legal challenge to Sogavare over Facebook ban

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Solomon Islands

US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

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

June 26, 2025

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Solomon Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

Opposition leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

PM ‘must take responsibility’ for Honiara tragedy, says Wale

December 2, 2021

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

Solomon Islands

‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Solomon Islands

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman

Solomon Islands

Accepting Indonesia into MSG ‘a mistake’, admits Natuman

February 10, 2023

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

November 27, 2021

Solomon Islands

Indonesia may appoint special envoy to South Pacific

April 1, 2016

Deputy Commissioner Juanita Matanga

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police appeal for help to stop covid spread over...

March 30, 2021

Minuteman III test launch, California

Solomon Islands

Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

July 7, 2026

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu

Solomon Islands

Sad Regenvanu condemns MSG for ‘failing’ people of West Papua

August 30, 2023

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare denies ‘insulting’ claim on Chinese military base for Solomons

March 29, 2022

Members of RAMSI military destroy surrendered weapons

Solomon Islands

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

April 5, 2022

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

West Papuans prepare for yesterday's rally in Wamena

Solomon Islands

Benny Wenda says dream of MSG full membership ‘will happen’ in...

August 23, 2023

Second PM candidate Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

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

May 1, 2024

Fijian troops being briefed

Solomon Islands

50 Fiji troops join Australian, PNG forces boosting Honiara security

November 30, 2021

RNZ Pacific's new editor Koroi Hawkins

Solomon Islands

‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 3, 2023

Solomon Islands

Solomon Island’s election among ‘most corrupt’, says former PM

April 15, 2019

Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Solomon Islands

Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic...

March 25, 2022

Solomon Islands

Regional meeting eyes Pacific climate migration and displacement

December 7, 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

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Fiji declares HIV emergency as 1 in 60 Fijian adults live...

Fiji's HIV crisis

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New Zealand's news media have been warned

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‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

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TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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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

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Fiji's 2013 Constitution

Democracy

Fiji targets new constitution by Christmas Eve as watchdog warns of...

Fiji's HIV crisis

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‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

"Put the greens last"

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission