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Malaita province Premier Daniel Suidani

Solomon Islands

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

December 8, 2021

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Solomon Islands

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

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

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands marking 80 years of WWII Battle of Guadalcanal

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Solomon Islands

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom

Solomon Islands

Former PM Sogavare back for sixth term in Solomon Islands poll

Solomon Islands

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Solomon Islands

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 5, 2026

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands success over EU tuna fisheries market access earns praise

February 26, 2017

The Indonesian fishing boats reportedly seized by the PNG Defence Force

Solomon Islands

Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2022

Solomon Islands

Indian Ocean’s Smartfish wins global award for fight against illegal fishing

March 11, 2016

Solomon Islands

Candidates for Solomon Islands PM announced amid ‘political turbulence’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2017

Solomon Islands

Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

February 4, 2016

Solomon Islands passports

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands tops passport index for region’s global rankings

January 10, 2025

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

Solomon Islands

Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

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

January 12, 2022

Solomon Islands

Watchdog role of media highlighted in USP journalism talk

Pacific Media Watch -

April 24, 2018

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomons PM refuses to convene parliament amid political crisis

March 19, 2026

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

Solomon Islands

Solomons academic calls for caution over Taiwan/China decision

June 14, 2019

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 Pacific 2025 year ahead

Solomon Islands

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

January 4, 2025

Climate

Climate change report confirms ‘worst fears’ for Pacific nations

August 9, 2016

Solomon Islands

Resource rich economies dwarf the region, ADB conference told

KINJAP Peter S. -

July 18, 2016

Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

Solomon Islands

New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer

June 29, 2024

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

March 3, 2026

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Solomon Islands

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

PNPB protesters in Jayapura rally in support of full West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

West Papua solidarity group protests over arrest of 10 KNPB members

July 12, 2023

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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

"We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit-- the blockade of the blockade -- has failed."

Analysis

Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?

A photo of Indigenous West Papuan civilians in Distrik Tembagapura, Mimika, Central Papua, allegedly wounded by use of excessive force by Indonesian military

Asia Report

‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West...

RIMPAC 2026 . . . NZ taking part

Asia Report

Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

EDITOR'S PICKS

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Israeli military intervene in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea to seize the Global Sumud Fleet

Asia Report

Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by...

Israeli military pictured boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla yacht Abodes

Asia Report

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international...

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

"The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out."

Analysis

Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

New Caledonia’s special electoral card for Congress and provincial elections

Decolonisation

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll

Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Asia Report

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

Multinational police probe into Fiji officers

Crime

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade...