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Dawn breaks over Honiara for 80th anniversary of Battle of Guadalcanal celebrations

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Solomon Islands marking 80 years of WWII Battle of Guadalcanal

August 7, 2022

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 PM election

Solomon Islands Police Response Team (PRT)

Solomon Islands

Honiara court jails high school student, 18, for ‘lockdown’ breach

Solomon Islands

Indonesia may appoint special envoy to South Pacific

Solomon Islands

Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Campaign over Solomons media freedom ‘misguided’, claims PM’s office

August 3, 2022

The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

June 6, 2023

PJR 26(1) cover detail

Solomon Islands

PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2020

MASI's Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu promote MSG support for West Papua

May 13, 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

Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’

October 27, 2022

Solomon Islands

MASI aims to develop regional journalism with USP boost

October 24, 2018

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

Solomon Islands

OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense...

August 27, 2023

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu and Solomons raise Papua at UN rights council

September 18, 2019

The Pacific stupor/amnesia

Solomon Islands

Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 20, 2022

Solomon Islands

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

March 22, 2016

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots

November 25, 2021

Solomon Islands

Former PCF media intern welcomes Pacific newbies on NZ exchange

Rahul Bhattarai -

June 29, 2018

Solomon Islands

Watchdog role of media highlighted in USP journalism talk

Pacific Media Watch -

April 24, 2018

Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students

September 13, 2020

Solomon Islands

Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings

Pacific Media Watch -

May 28, 2019

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu

Solomon Islands

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

August 30, 2023

Solomon Islands

Taxpayer concerns over $1.6 million delegation trip to Taiwan

July 26, 2016

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Solomon Islands

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 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

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

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

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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

A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests

Arts

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

Government field officers assess the condition of communities and collapsed structures in General Santos City

Asia Report

Tsunami advisories issued in Pacific after 7.8 Philippines earthquake

Charges dropped for FLNKS president Christian Téin

Civil Society

Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia

Author May Pik

Analysis

May Pik: Waking up from a Zionist nightmare, let’s carry the...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The lack of proportionality is the key

Asia Report

They’re saying the attack on Iran was proportional – here are...

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

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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

China and Australia among powers competing for Pacific influence

Asia Report

Alifereti Sakiasi: The geopolitical battle for Pacific media narratives

Presentation of the UC-FLNKS candidates among the 24 party lists presented to contest the Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections

Civil Society

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

Asia Report

Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

World Cup BDS graphic

Asia Report

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