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Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) voted

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes

April 7, 2024

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare unleashes on Solomon Islands government over US agreement

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

Solomon Islands

Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development progress

Solomon Islands

New sighting of endemic bird signals need to stop logging in the Solomons

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

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

November 25, 2021

Solomon Islands

Imrana Jalal: Paradise lost – shocking report on Pacific violence against...

April 1, 2016

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

November 27, 2021

"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

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM challenges court order to face no-confidence vote within...

April 15, 2026

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden

Solomon Islands

As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...

March 18, 2023

Suspicious fishing vessels

Solomon Islands

‘Suspicious’ fishing vessels spotted in Solomon Islands waters

November 1, 2020

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

July 20, 2024

Solomon Islands

Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases

December 9, 2016

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Malaita province Premier Daniel Suidani

Solomon Islands

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

December 8, 2021

Solomon Islands

Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...

June 19, 2016

Pacific Capture

Solomon Islands

ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture...

August 24, 2022

Cleaning up the gutted Kukum traffic police station

Solomon Islands

Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest

November 24, 2021

Solomon Islands Police Response Team (PRT)

Solomon Islands

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

September 3, 2021

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Solomon Islands

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

April 4, 2022

Fijian community help Bank of South Pacific staff clean up in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm

November 28, 2021

Solomon Islands

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

May 30, 2019

Freelance Gaza journalist Moussa Al Zaanoun

Solomon Islands

NZ slumps to 19th as RSF says press freedom threatened by...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 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

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

Solomon Islands

Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...

July 24, 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

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...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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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

Fiji Health Minister Dr Atonio Lalabalavu's HIV warning

Fiji

Fiji declares HIV emergency as 1 in 60 Fijian adults live...

A pro-Palestine protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza and the illegal settlements in the West Bank in Auckland

Analysis

The case for NZ joining the UK in sanctioning Israel over...

New Zealand's news media have been warned

Analysis

NZ elections: Where are much-needed party policies on media?

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .

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‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Author Naomi Klein . . . "Either you bunker - either you just protect you and yours - or . . .

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‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor on billionaires, bunkers,...

Fiji's HIV crisis

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‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

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Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

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Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission

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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

Fiji's 2013 Constitution

Democracy

Fiji targets new constitution by Christmas Eve as watchdog warns of...

Fiji's HIV crisis

Editor's Picks

‘We are very open’: Fiji’s tourism minister says HIV emergency should...

TUC unions back motion demanding boycotts and sanctions to oppose the "catastrophic destruction of Gaza"

Asia Report

Palestine Forum calls on NZ unions to follow TUC sanctions lead...

"Put the greens last"

Analysis

Australia’s social cohesion, far-right astroturfers and the Bondi Royal Commission