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Solomon Islands tops passport index for region’s global rankings

January 10, 2025

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence among a sea of Palestinian flags

Solomon Islands

Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel in spite of UN votes

Solomon Islands police officers being trained by China

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police complete combat drill with Chinese trainers

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

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 Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

June 6, 2023

Kanak independence flag

Solomon Islands

‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year

January 1, 2022

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

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

June 26, 2025

Did Xi shoot the Sheriff?

Solomon Islands

Dan McGarry: How to do something about Australia’s Pacific ‘stuff up’

April 21, 2022

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Solomon Islands

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

The Pacific 2025 year ahead

Solomon Islands

Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set...

January 4, 2025

Melanesian wantoks at AUT

Solomon Islands

Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT

May 26, 2021

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

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

February 4, 2021

Fiji anti-corruption will declining

Solomon Islands

An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption...

December 9, 2022

High tide floodwaters in the Carterets 06-12-2021

Solomon Islands

Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific

December 7, 2021

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

Solomon Islands

COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein

December 5, 2015

Solomon Islands

Pacific knowledge, smart media used to tackle mosquito-borne diseases

February 1, 2018

Solomon Islands

Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases

December 9, 2016

West Papuans rally in support of full membershio of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

Wenda slams ‘grave abuses’ against Papuan activists at MSG demos

July 14, 2023

Pacific Aftershocks

Solomon Islands

Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report

October 18, 2021

Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

‘Tread carefully’, opposition warns Solomons PM over geopolitical rivalries

March 28, 2022

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...

October 30, 2024

Rioting in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape

December 1, 2021

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

Solomon Islands

Sogavare declares full West Papuan membership in MSG ‘justifiable’

May 18, 2016

Solomon Islands

Cook Islands plays role in Pacific research mapping media culture

Pacific Media Watch -

July 4, 2017

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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

"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...

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

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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

MCPNG president Neville Choi

Gender

MCPNG and UN hold media freedom talks in wake of attacks...

Asia Report

Western media failing to tell truth about war on Iran, says...

Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins (left) receives the Iran war petition from Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman

Asia Report

Thousands urge NZ prime minister Luxon to condemn illegal US-Israeli war...

Iranian missile damage in central Israel at an undisclosed location

Analysis

Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace...

EDITOR'S PICKS

An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia

Asia Report

Australian charities funding Israel’s illegal settlements ‘untouchable’, says Labor govt

China and the Solomon Islands media

Solomon Islands

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

The Strait of Hormuz

Analysis

Iran’s ‘Samson option’ : Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic...

Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins (left) receives the Iran war petition from Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman

Asia Report

Thousands urge NZ prime minister Luxon to condemn illegal US-Israeli war...

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

An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia

Asia Report

Australian charities funding Israel’s illegal settlements ‘untouchable’, says Labor govt

China and the Solomon Islands media

Solomon Islands

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

In October 2025, Israeli forces kidnapped the crew members of 41 aid ships near Gaza

Asia Report

Activists plan ‘largest flotilla yet’ to break Israel’s siege of Gaza

The Strait of Hormuz

Analysis

Iran’s ‘Samson option’ : Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic...