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Republic of Marshall Islands President David Kabua

Solomon Islands

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

February 21, 2023

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

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

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Solomon Islands

Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security

Fijian troops being briefed

Solomon Islands

50 Fiji troops join Australian, PNG forces boosting Honiara security

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

Flying high . . . the Morning Star ensign -- banned in Indonesia -- flying alongside the Vanuatu national flag in Port Vila

Solomon Islands

‘The world is watching’ – it’s a test for Melanesian leaders...

August 24, 2023

Solomon Islands

USP journo students return from Solomons climate storytelling project

Michael Andrew -

July 2, 2019

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands students ‘denied’ opportunity to vote in election

April 5, 2019

Australian infantry in Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars

April 26, 2023

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Solomon Islands

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

Solomon Islands

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

July 20, 2024

Early morning sun as citizens of Solomon Islands go about their day lobbying

Solomon Islands

No clear winner as lobbying to form next Solomon Islands government...

April 23, 2024

Facebook ban

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2020

SIBC newsroom in Honiara

Solomon Islands

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

August 11, 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

New Zealand forces deployed to Solomon Islands in wake of riots

December 1, 2021

Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

Solomon Islands

Indonesia responds after claim official attempted to bribe RNZ Pacific journalist

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2023

China and the Solomon Islands media

Solomon Islands

China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector

Pacific Media Watch -

March 20, 2026

Solomon Islands

COP21: Politicians leading world to ‘very dangerous future’, says Naomi Klein

December 5, 2015

Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at...

October 30, 2024

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Solomon Islands

Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security

April 22, 2022

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

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

Solomon Islands

Vlad Sokhin: ‘Warm Waters’ – threat of climate change to low-lying...

June 19, 2016

Solomon Islands

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine nominates cabinet ministers

Solomon Islands

Pacific predictions: Elections, security and regionalism top 2024 agenda

January 25, 2024

Solomon Islands capital Honiara

Solomon Islands

US issues vague warning ‘to respond’ if China builds military base...

April 27, 2022

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

‘Big picture vision’ conversations missing in Pacific, says Aqorau

March 29, 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

POPULAR POSTS

Operation Earnest Will, 1987, when the US Navy escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers for free

Analysis

The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...

Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

Arts

NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025

Solomon Islands

NZ’s Pacific Islands Forum budget could face a $10m squeeze, OIA...

An AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile supplied by the Australian Defence Force drops from an RNZ Air Force Poseidon patrol aicraft during a love fire exercise

Analysis

Jeremy Rose: New Zealand joins the arms race to climate calamity

EDITOR'S PICKS

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

Analysis

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned

Crime

Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn...

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend

Editor's Picks

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

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

Look at this image. The thin white lines are what remains of the world’s most important oil artery - the Strait of Hormuz

Analysis

Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...

A controversial Fiji and Israeli plan to cooperate in security training has triggered criticism

Asia Report

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend

Editor's Picks

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga...

Iranian missile attack on US base in Jordan

Analysis

Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...