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Manasseh Sogavare elected Solomon Islands PM for fourth time

April 24, 2019

Solomon Islands

Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid

Solomon Islands

US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017

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

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Solomon Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

Solomon Islands

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

April 1, 2016

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

Solomon Islands

Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’

January 30, 2022

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

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

Fiji anti-corruption will declining

Solomon Islands

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

December 9, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with Fiji's acting PM Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Solomon Islands

US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific

February 13, 2022

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

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

June 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

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

June 19, 2016

Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy

Solomon Islands

Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development

Pacific Media Watch -

July 15, 2024

Solomon Islands

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

March 23, 2020

Solomon Islands

Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected

April 24, 2019

Solomon Islands

PNG and Solomons governments call for changes to forestry

June 14, 2019

Solomon Islands police arrest a suspect

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above...

November 28, 2021

Solomon Islands

Candidates for Solomon Islands PM announced amid ‘political turbulence’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2017

Solomon Islands

Ordnance blast kills two foreign aid workers in Solomon Islands

September 21, 2020

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Cleaning up the gutted Kukum traffic police station

Solomon Islands

Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest

November 24, 2021

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

Fear of reprisal puts limit on Pacific human rights journalism, say...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2016

Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

Solomon Islands

Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

April 18, 2026

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t enter Solomon Islands’ pleads Sogavare with Bougainvilleans

January 12, 2022

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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

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...

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

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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

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Business

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Solomon Islands

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

EDITOR'S PICKS

Commissioner Virginia Bell

Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

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

A Canadian boy tourist holds a Palestinian flag aloft signalling to "no war" protesters on Devonport wharf

Analysis

Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...

Commissioner Virginia Bell

Australia

Australian ‘antisemitism’ – the Royal Conflation Commission is in session

Video footage obtained by human rights researchers shows a crowd of angry Papuans throwing stones towards police infrastructure in Kobakma

Asia Report

West Papuan graduation parade turns violent after police object to Morning...

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom