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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

March 5, 2025

Solomon Islands

USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Solomon Islands

Data collection on children in Pacific ‘poor’, says UNICEF

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

‘Don’t enter Solomon Islands’ pleads Sogavare with Bougainvilleans

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has issued a statement saying Parliament will be closed to the public for the election of the prime minister.

Solomon Islands

Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of PM election

Solomon Islands

Solomons’ deal with Chinese developer sparks ‘concern’

October 14, 2019

Honiara lockdown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands imposes 60 hour Honiara lockdown over covid outbreak

January 20, 2022

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

Solomon Islands

Sea-level rise claims five whole islands in the Pacific

May 9, 2016

The rise in drug trafficking through Fiji is just one part of a booming trans-Pacific trade

Solomon Islands

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 20, 2023

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

March 28, 2023

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Solomon Islands

USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution...

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November 1, 2025

Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu

Solomon Islands

West Papuan supporters ‘let down’ by MSG leaders, says advocate

August 31, 2023

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Solomon Islands

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

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November 26, 2025

Solomon Star's editor Alfred Sasako adamant that the newspaper has maintained its editorial independence

Solomon Islands

China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 2, 2023

PJR 26(1) cover detail

Solomon Islands

Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era

Pacific Media Watch -

August 7, 2020

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

May 16, 2026

Honiara's Chinatown in ruins

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: The painful reality – my day on the road...

November 28, 2021

Solomon Islands

Solomon Island’s election among ‘most corrupt’, says former PM

April 15, 2019

The Pacific and the world

Solomon Islands

Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’

March 14, 2025

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...

May 8, 2026

Solomon Islands

New Pacific report on illegal tuna fishing for frontline officials

March 10, 2016

Post-Courier front page 240122

Solomon Islands

Covid-infected PNG doctor arrested in Solomon Islands as border crosser

January 24, 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

Pacific Aftershocks

Solomon Islands

Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report

October 18, 2021

Solomon Islands

Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

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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

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...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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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 media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa

Asia Report

‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape

Resigned TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman

Democracy

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

Netanyahu stresses the need for more propaganda as Israel’s Hasbara budget...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...

A "No more complicity with war crimes" banner at a "Stop Wars" march at Devonport

Analysis

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what...

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

Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm...

Fiji media workers of the Fijian Media Association celebrate a belated World Press Freedom Day in the capital Suva

Democracy

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn...

A New Zealand protest over the Gaza genocide with a focus on the media

Analysis

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza...

"Hands off Iran" . . . New Zealand protesters make their voices heard in opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran near Devonport Naval Base in Auckland

Analysis

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on...