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Huawei to build 161 telecommunication towers

Solomon Islands

Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network

August 23, 2022

Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu

Solomon Islands

West Papuan supporters ‘let down’ by MSG leaders, says advocate

President Surangel Whipps Jr at his first state visit to Taiwan in May 2025

Solomon Islands

Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a ‘missed opportunity’

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

Solomon Islands

Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference

Chinese infrastructure assistance for Solomon Islands amid covid-19 pandemic

Solomon Islands

Chinese project experts arrive in Solomons amid pandemic surge

Malaita province Premier Daniel Suidani

Solomon Islands

Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the...

December 8, 2021

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu and Solomons raise Papua at UN rights council

September 18, 2019

President Surangel Whipps Jr at his first state visit to Taiwan in May 2025

Solomon Islands

Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a ‘missed opportunity’

August 19, 2025

Multichannel approach by ABC

Solomon Islands

The ABC’s role in Australia’s Pacific reset – valued and highly...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2022

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

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

Pacific Media Watch -

June 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

Pacific Media Watch -

July 16, 2017

Solomon Islands

‘Stay vigilant’, Guam governor warns over China’s Pacific intrusion

July 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...

June 19, 2016

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

Solomon Islands

Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...

August 3, 2023

China and the Solomon Islands media

Solomon Islands

China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2026

The Melanesian Spearhead Group pact signing in Port Vila yesterday

Solomon Islands

Melanesian leaders sign security and climate crisis declarations

August 25, 2023

Get whole story on covid

Solomon Islands

Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation

June 29, 2021

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

Solomon Islands

Japanese development aid funding splits Pacific unity on key WHO post

Pacific Media Centre -

September 21, 2018

Douglas Marau

Solomon Islands

Wendy Amangongo: Where is MASI over the Solomons Facebook ban?

Pacific Media Watch -

November 21, 2020

The flags of the Solomon Islands and the US for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

Solomon Islands

Uneasy Pacific makes wartime memories more important than ever

August 11, 2022

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

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...

October 24, 2024

Solomon Islands

PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up

March 23, 2020

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

Solomon Islands

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

March 2, 2026

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Solomon Islands

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

Pacific Media Watch -

July 11, 2026

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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

Palestinians in Gaza face a daily struggle for food

Asia Report

Palestine Forum calls on NZ to act against ‘weaponised, engineered’ Gaza...

Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau,

Decolonisation

Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

I've written these last years about the injustices, about the vile support for a horrendous genocide

Commentary

Saige England: Our NZ Coalition has joined all the toxic govts...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Solomon Islands

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

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

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Solomon Islands

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...