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Minuteman III test launch, California

Solomon Islands

Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy

July 7, 2026

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Solomon Islands

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA reveals

Solomon Islands

EJN awards grants for investigative ‘green’ reporting in Asia-Pacific

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

Solomon Islands

NZ should learn from Pacific on media freedom issues, says PMC...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2019

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Solomon Islands

‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

July 8, 2026

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

Solomon Islands

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence among a sea of Palestinian flags

Solomon Islands

Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel in spite of UN...

June 26, 2025

Second PM candidate Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Ready, set, go in Solomons PM race – Jeremiah Manele vs...

May 1, 2024

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu promote MSG support for West Papua

May 13, 2016

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2022

The Pacific stupor/amnesia

Solomon Islands

Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 20, 2022

Solomon islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

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

November 29, 2021

The leaked drafts are just that: drafts

Solomon Islands

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

May 27, 2022

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Solomon Islands

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Solomon Islands

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

Solomon Islands

Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

Solomon Islands

Ordnance blast kills two foreign aid workers in Solomon Islands

September 21, 2020

Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Baron Waqa ‘more than able’ to lead Pacific Islands Forum, says...

June 15, 2024

Solomon Islands

Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’

October 27, 2022

Solomon Islands

Pacific knowledge, smart media used to tackle mosquito-borne diseases

February 1, 2018

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

Solomon Islands

USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project

June 25, 2019

Head of the University of the South Pacific's journalism programme Dr Shailendra Singh

Solomon Islands

Defend media freedom in Pacific, says USP’s journalism head

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2022

Solomon Islands

USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Michael Andrew -

July 2, 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

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 Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Editor's Picks

Rabuka calls on Fijians to use freedom of expression ‘responsibly’

NZ Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Asia Report

Labour would prioritise recognition of Palestine, sanctions on Israel

An Israeli military offensive in January 2024 damaged parts of the Deir El Belah War Cemetery

Asia Report

Māori and Pacific soldiers’ final resting place in Gaza – don’t...

The United Kingdom, France and Canada announced they would ban imports of Israeli products which originated from the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank

Asia Report

Peters’ ‘hot air’ over Israeli settlement trade ban rules out of...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Mining company’s equipment targeted in Panguna arson attack

A banner at today's rally in Auckland's Te Komititanga Square

Asia Report

Pioneer of Palestine protest in NZ warns against the IDF ‘obscenity’...

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

Analysis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

Disasters

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

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 Panguna mine arson attack

Bougainville

Mining company’s equipment targeted in Panguna arson attack

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis

Analysis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby – and courage...

Witness Papali'i Mele Maualaivao

Disasters

Pacific remembering September 11 . . . 25 years on

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis outside federal court in Adelaide in July 2025

Asia Report

Australian Zionists drop case against ‘truth’ journalist Mary Kostakidis