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‘To lead is to serve’ – Governor-General to call PM election in Solomon Islands

April 27, 2024

Newspaper street vendors in Honiara.

Solomon Islands

How China is manipulating the information war in the Pacific

Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Solomon Islands

Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic and shows how little Australia understands power in the Pacific

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

Solomon Islands

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

Solomon Islands

Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings

Western Province Premier David Gina

Solomon Islands

Gina calls for return of death sentence after brutal killing...

October 22, 2021

Melanesian wantoks at AUT

Solomon Islands

Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT

May 26, 2021

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomons PM warns journalists against ‘yellow journalism’ rumours

Pacific Media Watch -

July 30, 2021

Rioting in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape

December 1, 2021

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

Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Solomon Islands

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

June 16, 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

Solomon Islands

Ordnance blast kills two foreign aid workers in Solomon Islands

September 21, 2020

Solomon Islands

COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

Solomon Islands voters board the MV Taimareho 1

Solomon Islands

Ships in the night – final day of election campaigning in...

April 15, 2024

University of Papua New Guinea students protest against the US-PNG defence pact

Solomon Islands

Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific

May 22, 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

Solomon Islands

Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

Fijian community help Bank of South Pacific staff clean up in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm

November 28, 2021

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

High tide floodwaters in the Carterets 06-12-2021

Solomon Islands

Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific

December 7, 2021

"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Solomon Islands

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 5, 2026

The Indonesian fishing boats reportedly seized by the PNG Defence Force

Solomon Islands

Post-Courier: Border patrol by soldiers or navy must be taken seriously

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2022

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

SIBC newsroom in Honiara

Solomon Islands

SIBC chief defends ‘free’ state media broadcaster in face of tighter...

August 11, 2022

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

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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

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Australia

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

Jacinda Ardern

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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

Kanaky, Palestinian and West Papua flags flying at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre last week during a protest against the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Suva

Civil Society

Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign...

Government field officers assess the condition of communities and collapsed structures in General Santos City

Asia Report

Tsunami advisories issued in Pacific after 7.8 Philippines earthquake

Germany defeated in the UN Security Council vote

Analysis

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A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests

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