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Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2020

Solomon Islands

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Solomon Islands

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years in power

Solomon Islands

Indonesia may appoint special envoy to South Pacific

Solomon islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Dan McGarry: It’s how, not who in Melanesian politics

November 29, 2021

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Solomon Islands

First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...

April 4, 2022

Solomon Islands

USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project

June 25, 2019

Solomon Islands

Sogavare declares full West Papuan membership in MSG ‘justifiable’

May 18, 2016

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Solomon Islands

Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security

April 22, 2022

Armed police with teargas masks on guard in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital

November 27, 2021

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda (left) and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

Rabuka backs call for West Papuan independence group to fully join...

February 24, 2023

SIBC newsroom in Honiara

Solomon Islands

SIBC chief defends ‘free’ state media broadcaster in face of tighter...

August 11, 2022

The Honiara riots

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report

Sri Krishnamurthi -

December 9, 2021

Solomon Islands

Candidates for Solomon Islands PM announced amid ‘political turbulence’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 14, 2017

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

A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

‘Not an attempt to militarise our nation’ – Solomon Islands considers...

October 21, 2025

Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)

Solomon Islands

‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late,...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2025

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title

Solomon Islands

‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

October 24, 2024

Matthew Wale (left) and Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare calls for Wale’s resignation, warns Suidani on ‘domestic terrorists’

December 2, 2021

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

Solomon Islands

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

January 30, 2022

Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

‘Tread carefully’, opposition warns Solomons PM over geopolitical rivalries

March 28, 2022

Flying high . . . the Morning Star ensign -- banned in Indonesia -- flying alongside the Vanuatu national flag in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

‘The world is watching’ – it’s a test for Melanesian leaders...

August 24, 2023

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Solomon Islands

Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

June 30, 2025

Solomon Islands

NZ to give $6m boost for USPNet telecommunications upgrade

March 27, 2018

Solomon Islands

Sea-level rise claims five whole islands in the Pacific

May 9, 2016

The West Papua delegation flying the Morning Star flag at the opening of the MACFEST 2023

Solomon Islands

West Papua high on agenda as MSG leaders set to convene...

August 19, 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

“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

ABC Media Watch

Analysis

‘Flying High Dubai’ – Michael West Media responds to ABC Media...

Students from the Mount St Mary Primary School at the Ecumenical and Interfaith

Civil Society

Fiji PM Rabuka urges climate action as Pacific hosts pre-COP31 meeting

Yue Lai Hotel in Suva and the Overseas Chinese Service Center located within it

China

US designates prominent Fiji businessman for advancing ‘China-based interests

Fiji Justice Minister Siromi Turaga

Culture

Jale Moala: Words matter in politics, especially at a time like...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The shunning of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

Jonathan Cook: The West wants Netanyahu gone – so Palestinians can...

Labour's foreign policy spokesperson Vanushi Walters

Democracy

Labour ‘will not shrink’ from moral challenges – it will recognise...

Yue Lai Hotel in Suva and the Overseas Chinese Service Center located within it

China

US designates prominent Fiji businessman for advancing ‘China-based interests

Israeli sniper position in a watchtower in the illegally occupied West Bank

Analysis

Tracy Campbell: War on Gaza – unpacking the ‘Year Zero’...

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 shunning of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

Jonathan Cook: The West wants Netanyahu gone – so Palestinians can...

Labour's foreign policy spokesperson Vanushi Walters

Democracy

Labour ‘will not shrink’ from moral challenges – it will recognise...

Yue Lai Hotel in Suva and the Overseas Chinese Service Center located within it

China

US designates prominent Fiji businessman for advancing ‘China-based interests

Israeli sniper position in a watchtower in the illegally occupied West Bank

Analysis

Tracy Campbell: War on Gaza – unpacking the ‘Year Zero’...