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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

September 19, 2024

The Pacific is not some rogue part of Tasmania. It’s an ocean of independent countries.

Solomon Islands

Solomons security shambles, and now it’s time for realism over hype

The Melanesian Spearhead Group pact signing in Port Vila yesterday

Solomon Islands

Melanesian leaders sign security and climate crisis declarations

Solomon Islands

WJEC16: ‘Early bird’ arrivals start for global, Pacific journalism events

Incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul

Delta variant covid-19

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands covid vaccination plan kicks off – delta variant threat

July 13, 2021

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

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands marking 80 years of WWII Battle of Guadalcanal

August 7, 2022

A KNPB rally in support of full membership for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

Melanesian Spearhead Group summit postponed – West Papua uncertain

July 19, 2023

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

July 20, 2024

Armed police with teargas masks on guard in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital

November 27, 2021

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

The Pacific and the world

Solomon Islands

Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’

March 14, 2025

Solomon Islands Coat of Arms

Solomon Islands

‘To lead is to serve’ – Governor-General to call PM election...

April 27, 2024

SIBC steps up digital storytelling training

Solomon Islands

SIBC journos gear up for the Pacific Games the MoJo way...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 26, 2023

Solomon Islands

O’Neill replies to PNG university student petitions but seeks ‘advice’

May 21, 2016

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Solomon Islands

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

March 23, 2020

Solomon Islands

Former PCF media intern welcomes Pacific newbies on NZ exchange

Rahul Bhattarai -

June 29, 2018

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

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands orders national broadcaster SIBC to ‘self-censor news’

August 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital

Pacific Media Centre -

April 25, 2019

Australian Federal Police officers on peacekeeping duties in Honiara

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader

December 5, 2021

The leaked drafts are just that: drafts

Solomon Islands

Amplifying narratives about the ‘China threat’ in the Pacific may help...

May 27, 2022

Solomon Islands

More women in Solomon Islands politics — how it needs to...

June 9, 2017

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Solomon Islands

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

May 22, 2023

Rocket Lab ... hard questions needed

Solomon Islands

John Minto: RNZ and the news media – asking the hard...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 17, 2022

Solomon Islands

Students gear up for first national live election broadcast with The...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 30, 2019

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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

Resigned TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman

Democracy

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into...

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa

Asia Report

‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape

RIMPAC 2026 . . . NZ taking part

Asia Report

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

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

EDITOR'S PICKS

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...

"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 woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds

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

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...

"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 woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds