Home Pacific Report Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Random

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit

Solomon Islands

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

June 25, 2025

President Surangel Whipps Jr at his first state visit to Taiwan in May 2025

Solomon Islands

Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a ‘missed opportunity’

Opposition leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

PM ‘must take responsibility’ for Honiara tragedy, says Wale

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

Solomon Islands

Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

Solomon Islands

Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection

January 30, 2016

Solomon Islands voters board the MV Taimareho 1

Solomon Islands

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

April 15, 2024

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

November 27, 2021

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

Solomon Islands

Saying China ‘bought’ a military base in the Solomons is simplistic...

March 25, 2022

Deputy Commissioner Juanita Matanga

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police appeal for help to stop covid spread over...

March 30, 2021

Solomon Islands

EJN awards grants for investigative ‘green’ reporting in Asia-Pacific

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2020

RNZ Pacific's new editor Koroi Hawkins

Solomon Islands

‘Calm in crisis’ Koroi Hawkins steps up as RNZ Pacific’s first...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 3, 2023

Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...

November 27, 2021

Solomon Islands

Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression

February 1, 2016

MASI's Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

New PM Hou in Solomon Islands pledges to fight corruption

November 15, 2017

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

November 1, 2025

An Australian soldier on patrol in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’

November 29, 2021

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare elected Solomon Islands PM for fourth time

April 24, 2019

Solomon Islands police officers being trained by China

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police complete combat drill with Chinese trainers

March 29, 2022

TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati

Solomon Islands

Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

Pacific Media Watch -

February 9, 2025

Solomon Islands

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

March 22, 2016

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands opposition alleges ‘millions’ offered by govt lobbyists to buy...

April 22, 2026

The flags of the Solomon Islands and the US for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

Solomon Islands

Uneasy Pacific makes wartime memories more important than ever

August 11, 2022

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

Former Cook Islands PM elected new secretary-general of PIF in close...

February 4, 2021

A big gathering of West Papuans in support of full West Papuan membership of the MSG took place peacefully this afternoon in the capital Jayapura

Solomon Islands

Senior MSG official calls for Melanesia to remain neutral in geopolitical...

August 22, 2023

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

12 3...16 Page 1 of 16

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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026

Bougainville

Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

A protester at the Anzac Day rally in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today

Asia Report

PSNA calls on McKee to condemn Israel’s bulldozing of NZ war...

A decision on the waste-to-energy proposal can only be issued following the completion of the full technical and regulatory review

Environment

Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

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

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters

Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel