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Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign Minister

October 4, 2022

Solomon Islands

Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings

Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) voted

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes

SI prime ministerial candidate Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years

MASI's Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2022

A graceful young Melanesian dancer shares her culture

Solomon Islands

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

October 17, 2023

The Honiara riots

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report

Sri Krishnamurthi -

December 9, 2021

Chinese sulky silence with Pacific media

Solomon Islands

How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom

July 14, 2022

The rise in drug trafficking through Fiji is just one part of a booming trans-Pacific trade

Solomon Islands

Fall of a Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 20, 2023

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

Solomon Islands

Digital broadcasting switchover starts for Pacific nations

Pacific Media Centre -

September 26, 2015

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Solomon Islands

US worried about losing out in South Pacific to Chinese influence

February 6, 2022

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has issued a statement saying Parliament will be closed to the public for the election of the prime minister.

Solomon Islands

Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of...

May 2, 2024

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

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

March 29, 2023

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

Solomon Islands

Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...

August 3, 2023

Matthew Wale (left) and Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare calls for Wale’s resignation, warns Suidani on ‘domestic terrorists’

December 2, 2021

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

Solomon Islands

OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense...

August 27, 2023

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years

Pacific Media Watch -

May 17, 2017

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2020

Solomon Islands

‘Crisis within a crisis’: Violence more risky for Fiji women than...

February 25, 2021

Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

Solomon Islands

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner

July 27, 2026

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

Solomon Islands

A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...

Shailendra Singh -

August 3, 2016

"Censored" . . . the cover image on In-Depth Solomons' revelations

Solomon Islands

‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan,...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 23, 2024

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...

May 8, 2026

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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

Tending to vegetable crops with use of water from a nearby urban creek in Waigani, Port Moresby

Climate

Pacific faces water security challenges during a searing El Niño

Of the nearly 210 journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and October 2026, at least 71 were targeted or killed by Israeli soldiers in connection with their work

Analysis

Israeli military violence soars – 24 times as many journalists killed,...

Business

‘A colossal mistake’ – Media Minister rules out coming to RNZ’s...

The Greens have made history

Commentary

Sean Ackland: Chin up. There’s still a lot to celebrate over...

EDITOR'S PICKS

NZ Palestine solidarity activist Janfrie Wakim

Asia Report

Journalist blasts NZ media silence on Gaza genocide, key activist condemns...

New Zealand Green MP and Cook Islander Teanau Tuiono in Rarotonga

Democracy

Pacific MPs across political spectrum pledge to work hard for ‘our...

RNZ Checkpoint's Lisa Owen interviewing outgoing CEO Paul Thompson this week

Democracy

RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson announces early departure from organisation

Fiji's Professor Biman Prasad outside the Suva courtroom after the no case to answer ruling

Democracy

Professor Prasad to be sworn back into Fiji Cabinet after no...

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

NZ Palestine solidarity activist Janfrie Wakim

Asia Report

Journalist blasts NZ media silence on Gaza genocide, key activist condemns...

New Zealand Green MP and Cook Islander Teanau Tuiono in Rarotonga

Democracy

Pacific MPs across political spectrum pledge to work hard for ‘our...

RNZ Checkpoint's Lisa Owen interviewing outgoing CEO Paul Thompson this week

Democracy

RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson announces early departure from organisation

Potential new prime minister Gadi Eisenkot

Asia Report

Gaza and West Bank status quo – a new Israeli PM...