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Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and PIF Secretary General Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia

August 11, 2024

Solomon Islands

WJEC16: Pacific media educators struggle to find answers for common problems

Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific

Solomon Islands

While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for basic sovereignty

Solomon Islands

West Papuans in Vanuatu reject Jakarta response to Solomons PM

Solomon Islands

Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’

Construction of the Solomon Islands National Stadium in the capital Honiara was originally being sponsored by Taiwan but China is now shouldering the major costs of hosting the 2023 Pacific Games

Solomon Islands

Fears over China influence leads US to reopen Solomon Islands embassy

January 17, 2023

Baron Waqa

Solomon Islands

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

June 15, 2024

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

Isabel Premier Rhoda Sikilabu

Solomon Islands

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

April 4, 2022

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...

May 11, 2021

Solomon Islands

Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases

December 9, 2016

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

July 20, 2024

Solomon Islands

New Pacific report on illegal tuna fishing for frontline officials

March 10, 2016

Solomon Islands

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

April 1, 2016

Solomon Islands

Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

Rocket Lab ... hard questions needed

Solomon Islands

John Minto: RNZ and the news media – asking the hard...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 17, 2022

Honiara lockdown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands imposes 60 hour Honiara lockdown over covid outbreak

January 20, 2022

The authorities deal with the stabbing attack at Bloody Ridge, Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Japanese sailor stabbed during Guadalcanal remembrance event

August 8, 2022

The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

June 6, 2023

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Solomon Islands

Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region

May 19, 2025

The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

Solomon Islands

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

October 31, 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

Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath

April 13, 2026

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Solomon Islands

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

Huge container ships carrying import and export marine cargo loads

Solomon Islands

UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’

July 8, 2023

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Solomon Islands

Six Pacific Island nations ratify Paris Accord on climate change

Pacific Media Centre -

April 27, 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

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

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US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

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American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

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Kanaky New Caledonia's new Territorial President Milakulo Tukumuli

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Gazan journalists calling for open access to the besieged Palestinian enclave . . . more than 200 journalists and media freedom groups signed a petition demanding free media access and protection for Palestinan media workers

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Gazan journalists calling for open access to the besieged Palestinian enclave . . . more than 200 journalists and media freedom groups signed a petition demanding free media access and protection for Palestinan media workers

Asia Report

Al Jazeera abruptly terminates contracts of Palestinian journalists in Gaza in...

Trump's bluster works once

Asia Report

When Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ isn’t a deal – it’s the third...

American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

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Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

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Responding to NZ Foreign Minister’s racist slurs on China and Green...