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SI prime ministerial candidate Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands

April 30, 2024

Solomon Islands

Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

Rioting in Kukum Highway, Honiara,

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion

Solomon Islands

WJEC16: Pacific journalism contingent gearing up to share with world educators

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 Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Censoring SIBC an ‘assault on media freedom’ in Solomons, says IFJ

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2022

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

Showing how it's done in Dili - Wang Yi media conference

Solomon Islands

Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers

June 5, 2022

Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman

Solomon Islands

Accepting Indonesia into MSG ‘a mistake’, admits Natuman

February 10, 2023

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

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with Fiji's acting PM Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum

Solomon Islands

US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific

February 13, 2022

The World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s MC13 conference

Solomon Islands

Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference

March 1, 2024

Solomon Islands

Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

Pacific Media Watch -

July 16, 2017

Solomon Islands

Ordnance blast kills two foreign aid workers in Solomon Islands

September 21, 2020

A graceful young Melanesian dancer shares her culture

Solomon Islands

Melanesians gathering for ‘unique’ NZ cultural event to celebrate identity

October 17, 2023

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu promote MSG support for West Papua

May 13, 2016

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu’s Anna Naupa becomes first woman to lead MSG Secretariat

June 18, 2026

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Solomon Islands

Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

June 30, 2025

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force

Solomon Islands

Malaita’s M4D group declared illegal for alleged role in Solomons riots

December 9, 2021

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

Solomon Islands

The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1:...

May 21, 2025

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Solomon Islands

‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity

February 21, 2023

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi

Solomon Islands

More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting...

April 22, 2024

Deputy Commissioner Juanita Matanga

Solomon Islands

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

March 30, 2021

Solomon Islands

Government in Solomon Islands ‘collapsing’ as MPs change allegiance

Pacific Media Watch -

October 31, 2017

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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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...

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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

Israel has been added to the Pacific Islands Forum list as a sectoral partner

Solomon Islands

‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...

Activist Achmat Eesau

Asia Report

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate

Culture

NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...

Samoan Prime Minister La'auli and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon in Apia

Elections

‘I said no’ – Samoan PM told Luxon treaty refresh must...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

Activist Achmat Eesau

Asia Report

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

Asia Report

‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

Pacific Elders' Voice chair Anote Tong

Decolonisation

Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’

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

Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai

Culture

Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality

Activist Achmat Eesau

Asia Report

Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’

"'Ungrounding' is a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else

Asia Report

‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...

A Lakapi Samoa billboard in Apia

Global

National Olympic body to oversee arrangement for rugby in Samoa