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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

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

June 3, 2022

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

Solomon Islands

Government in Solomon Islands ‘collapsing’ as MPs change allegiance

RSE worker Taylor Crichton and church volunteer Fuimaono Nathan Pulega at Napier

Solomon Islands

Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers

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’ of region

Solomon Islands

#COP 21: Voices of the Pacific – some regional reflections

December 17, 2015

Solomon Islands

Loss of Australian Associated Press (AAP) a tragedy for entire Pacific

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 4, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare hails ‘new approach’ on West Papua – Wale calls PM...

September 28, 2023

Solomon Islands capital Honiara

Solomon Islands

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

April 27, 2022

Solomon Islands

Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

West Papuans prepare for yesterday's rally in Wamena

Solomon Islands

Benny Wenda says dream of MSG full membership ‘will happen’ in...

August 23, 2023

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare elected Solomon Islands PM for fourth time

April 24, 2019

Solomon Islands

Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

February 4, 2016

Solomon Islands

Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu win medals at Games

April 11, 2018

Solomon Islands

Japanese development aid funding splits Pacific unity on key WHO post

Pacific Media Centre -

September 21, 2018

Solomon Islands

Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression

February 1, 2016

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Solomon Islands

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

Pacific Media Watch -

May 8, 2026

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

November 23, 2020

Solomon Islands

PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up

March 23, 2020

MSG leaders sign the two declarations - on climate crisis and subregional security

Solomon Islands

MSG leaders defer Papua membership decision to Pacific Islands Forum

August 25, 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

The Solomon Star office in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding

Pacific Media Watch -

July 31, 2023

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

July 20, 2024

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

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Solomon slands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing...

June 20, 2022

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

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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

In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

Climate

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

Defenders of the International Criminal Court, led by the pan-European group Eumans, rally in Rome

Asia Report

‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC...

Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

EDITOR'S PICKS

NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide

Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns

Asia Report

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

Analysis

Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

Analysis

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

Commentary

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...