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AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

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How Israel won the Pacific – and its backing at the UN

February 17, 2026

Western Province Premier David Gina

Solomon Islands

Gina calls for return of death sentence after brutal killing in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Campaign ‘blackout’ in force ahead of Solomon Islands election

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

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

Solomon Islands

Solomons’ deal with Chinese developer sparks ‘concern’

Fijians in the capital Suva celebrate the end of 16 years of authoritarian rule - eight years of military dictatorship followed by a rigid "democracy".

Solomon Islands

David Robie: 2022 Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano

December 31, 2022

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

A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...

Shailendra Singh -

August 3, 2016

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

A View From Afar

Solomon Islands

A View From Afar: How covid-19 has become a trigger of...

August 12, 2021

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Solomon Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

Victoria University's Nanai Anae Dr Iati Iati

Solomon Islands

New Zealand framing China as ‘the devil’ insincere, says Pacific lecturer

June 29, 2024

West Papuan support for the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Solomon Islands

MSG throws away golden chance to reset peace and justice for...

August 26, 2023

RNZ Pacific's new editor Koroi Hawkins

Solomon Islands

‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 3, 2023

Solomon Islands

Government in Solomon Islands ‘collapsing’ as MPs change allegiance

Pacific Media Watch -

October 31, 2017

Solomon Islands

Pacific-wide study tipped to show ‘real value’ of lost fisheries

March 14, 2016

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Solomon Islands

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG ...

July 31, 2023

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

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

Solomon Islands

Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

Pacific Media Watch -

February 9, 2025

Solomon Islands

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

May 30, 2019

The Honiara riots

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report

Sri Krishnamurthi -

December 9, 2021

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

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader

March 28, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with Fiji's acting PM Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Solomon Islands

US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific

February 13, 2022

Solomon Islands

Solomons to ban Facebook but claims ‘media freedom to remain’

Pacific Media Watch -

November 17, 2020

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...

November 7, 2025

Solomon Islands

COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein

December 5, 2015

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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

International justice advocate Craig Mokhiber

Asia Report

Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state,...

An image well illustrating the diversity of today’s Aotearoa New Zealand

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo

Counsel Assisting before Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’

Iranian Kiwi Seyed Derhany

Asia Report

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

Analysis

The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

Asia Report

Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

Asia Report

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...

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

Australia's Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal

Analysis

The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for

Producer Victor Mambor of the documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time accepts the award on behalf of the production team

Asia Report

Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’...

The Free Palestine Party

Asia Report

Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa

An Iranian naval speedboat patrolling the Strait of Hormuz

Asia Report

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding