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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

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

August 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

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

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

Solomon Islands

MSG, ACP and the (almost) forgotten case of West Papuan independence

Solomon Islands capital Honiara

Solomon Islands

US issues vague warning ‘to respond’ if China builds military base in Solomons

Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Solomon Islands

US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

The ground-breaking ceremony for the Indonesian-funded ugrade of the VIP Lounge in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu asked for Indonesian aid funds, Jakarta’s envoy reveals

August 28, 2023

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Solomon Islands

USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 1, 2025

Solomon Islands

Jakarta has something to hide over West Papua, says Wenda

May 26, 2016

Minuteman III test launch, California

Solomon Islands

Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

July 7, 2026

Solomon Islands

Data collection on children in Pacific ‘poor’, says UNICEF

March 16, 2018

Fiji anti-corruption will declining

Solomon Islands

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

December 9, 2022

Douglas Marau

Solomon Islands

Wendy Amangongo: Where is MASI over the Solomons Facebook ban?

Pacific Media Watch -

November 21, 2020

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 Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders urge Jakarta to allow UN rights visit to West...

September 29, 2026

Climate

Climate change report confirms ‘worst fears’ for Pacific nations

August 9, 2016

Solomon Islands

COP21: Forum’s Meg Taylor makes Pacific video plea to world leaders

December 5, 2015

Solomon Islands

Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu win medals at Games

April 11, 2018

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

March 29, 2023

Solomon Islands

Solomons academic calls for caution over Taiwan/China decision

June 14, 2019

Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

Solomon Islands

Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2023

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

Only two women elected in Solomon Islands – no new females

April 8, 2019

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (from left), PNG Prime Minister James Marape (standing) and Defence Minister Win Daki after signing the US-PNG defence cooperation pact in Port Moresby

Solomon Islands

How Washington teamed up with PNG to pip Canberra for ‘control’...

July 5, 2023

Vanuatu's MV Matui tragedy on September 11

Solomon Islands

Seasonal weather chaos just part of picture of Pacific maritime tragedies,...

September 25, 2026

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Solomon Islands

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 26, 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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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...

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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

How Newsroom covered the Kerrin Leoni gang controversy

Analysis

The lynching takes 48 hours – whiteness, the NZ press, and...

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

Fiji ‘worse off today’, former PM warns, as Rabuka’s constitution overhaul...

Fiji Deputy Prime Minuster Viliame Gavoka

Commentary

Open letter: Mr Gavoka, don’t present your personal theology as the...

Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia

Elections

‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Solomon Islands

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...

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

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

A democratic franchise means very little if a minority population must exercise it under the scrutiny of hostile partisan activists

Asia Report

Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station

Environmental activists protesting in Jakarta against forest and land fires

Solomon Islands

Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...