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SIBC newsroom in Honiara

Solomon Islands

SIBC chief defends ‘free’ state media broadcaster in face of tighter controls

August 11, 2022

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

Solomon Islands

Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

Fiji's Professor Biman Prasad

Solomon Islands

Prasad criticises NZ, Australia over not addressing ‘democratic deficit’ in Pacific region

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

April 26, 2023

Solomon Islands

USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project

June 25, 2019

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

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader

March 28, 2023

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

Former Cook Islands PM elected new secretary-general of PIF in close...

February 4, 2021

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Solomon Islands

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots

November 25, 2021

Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat

June 18, 2026

The authorities deal with the stabbing attack at Bloody Ridge, Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Japanese sailor stabbed during Guadalcanal remembrance event

August 8, 2022

Get vaccinated against covid warning

Solomon Islands

Warnings to anti-vaxxers slowing rollout in Solomons and PNG

June 18, 2021

Solomon Islands

Sogavare voted out as no confidence motion passes after ‘fierce’ debate

Pacific Media Watch -

November 6, 2017

Pacific journalism research project leader associate professor Shailendra Singh

Solomon Islands

New USP research paper explores journalism culture in the region

November 4, 2021

Solomon Islands

Westminster meeting makes new declaration for West Papua’s future

May 4, 2016

SI Police Commissioner Mostyn Managa

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police arrest 217 riot suspects, but no ‘instigators’ so...

December 3, 2021

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...

May 8, 2026

Solomon Islands

Sogavare declares full West Papuan membership in MSG ‘justifiable’

May 18, 2016

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Solomon Islands

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 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

Manasseh Sogavare elected Solomon Islands PM for fourth time

April 24, 2019

BSP banking group

Solomon Islands

PNG banking regulator acts against BSP over money-laundering rules

July 13, 2021

Solomon Islands

Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

Solomon Islands

The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1:...

May 21, 2025

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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...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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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

The New Arab's report in Arabic with a photograph of a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland's Te Komititanga Square

Asia Report

New Zealand faces lawsuit over technology use during Gaza war

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

Regionalism and consensus are the best safeguards

Asia Report

Foreign espionage increasing in Pacific, says NZ’s spy agency

Former FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

Democracy

Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Trapped Palestinian Refqa Hassan watches as Israeli settlers have besieged her family home

Asia Report

Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite...

AI slop: "Imagine a world where a British royal princess and a former Uruguayan guerrilla fighter shared their deepest reflections on life

AI

Jeremy Rose: AI-generated good ‘news’ floods social media

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

Government and corporate elites and states can continue to support Israel militarily and economically only as long as establishment media continue to rehearse the lies, falsifications, and denials of its genocide in Gaza

Analysis

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza?...

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

Trapped Palestinian Refqa Hassan watches as Israeli settlers have besieged her family home

Asia Report

Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite...

Education Minister Aseri Radrodro

Asia Report

Chinese language to be taught in Fiji schools to strengthen educational...

AI slop: "Imagine a world where a British royal princess and a former Uruguayan guerrilla fighter shared their deepest reflections on life

AI

Jeremy Rose: AI-generated good ‘news’ floods social media

Government and corporate elites and states can continue to support Israel militarily and economically only as long as establishment media continue to rehearse the lies, falsifications, and denials of its genocide in Gaza

Analysis

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza?...