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Tulagi bans betel nut selling as covid fears grow in Solomon Islands

January 22, 2022

Solomon Islands police arrest a suspect

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above law’

Second PM candidate Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

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

Fiji Women's Rights Movement executive director Nalini Singh

Solomon Islands

Nalini Singh calls for media coverage that ‘reflects realities of all genders’

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 a strained relationship

Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Solomon Islands

Pacific security should be a matter for ‘Pacific family’, says Wong

June 16, 2022

Solomon Islands

Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day

December 1, 2022

Solomon Islands

Campaign ‘blackout’ in force ahead of Solomon Islands election

April 2, 2019

The Melanesian Spearhead Group pact signing in Port Vila yesterday

Solomon Islands

Melanesian leaders sign security and climate crisis declarations

August 25, 2023

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Solomon Islands

Only two women elected in Solomon Islands – no new females

April 8, 2019

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion

May 6, 2026

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

China’s high-level ‘milestone’ visit to the Pacific ahead of schedule

May 24, 2022

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

September 2, 2026

Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

March 3, 2026

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour

Pacific Media Watch -

June 3, 2022

Solomon Islands

‘Live, thrive in a new place’ – financing Pacific climate adaptation

August 31, 2017

Solomon Islands

Former PM Sogavare back for sixth term in Solomon Islands poll

April 6, 2019

Dawn breaks over Honiara for 80th anniversary of Battle of Guadalcanal celebrations

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands marking 80 years of WWII Battle of Guadalcanal

August 7, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

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

January 12, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare adamant deal with China won’t undermine regional security

April 21, 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Solomon Islands

PM says Honiara’s growing China relationship is ‘gravely concerning’

March 28, 2022

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Solomon Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

November 27, 2021

Solomon Islands

USP Council lifts suspension of academic chief – no due process

June 19, 2020

Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau

Solomon Islands

MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau

August 24, 2023

Solomon Islands

Indian Ocean’s Smartfish wins global award for fight against illegal fishing

March 11, 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

POPULAR POSTS

Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman

Asia Report

Vanuatu special envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific...

Parliament Haus in Port Moresby

Analysis

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the...

PSNA's Leeann Wahanui-Peters reading out Te Pāti Māori's statement for co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Asia Report

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’...

All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

Civil Society

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott

Asia Report

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its...

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

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024

Asia Report

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau

Climate

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...

President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision