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Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste

Solomon Islands

Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture

Pacific Media Watch -

November 15, 2025

Solomon Islands

Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

Solomon Islands

Government in Solomon Islands ‘collapsing’ as MPs change allegiance

The aftermath of rioting in Chinatown yesterday.

Solomon Islands

Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel

A View From Afar

Solomon Islands

A View From Afar: How covid-19 has become a trigger of...

August 12, 2021

Dawn breaks over Honiara for 80th anniversary of Battle of Guadalcanal celebrations

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands marking 80 years of WWII Battle of Guadalcanal

August 7, 2022

Solomon Islands

Sogavare voted out as no confidence motion passes after ‘fierce’ debate

Pacific Media Watch -

November 6, 2017

Opposition leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

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

December 2, 2021

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands students help out Fiji victims of TC Harold restore...

May 9, 2020

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

Incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East...

April 20, 2024

Solomon Islands

Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’

October 27, 2022

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Masi president Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

‘Respect’ work of journalists and media, Masi tells Solomons police

Pacific Media Watch -

April 21, 2022

A graceful young Melanesian dancer shares her culture

Solomon Islands

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

October 17, 2023

Rioting in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape

December 1, 2021

Solomon Islands

Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’

April 16, 2016

Pacific Affairs Minister Aupito William Sio

Solomon Islands

Aupito heads to Fiji as government faces pressure over China strategy

May 31, 2022

Covid-19 vaccinations being given in Vanuatu

Solomon Islands

Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’

January 30, 2022

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...

May 11, 2021

RSE worker Taylor Crichton and church volunteer Fuimaono Nathan Pulega at Napier

Solomon Islands

Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers

February 22, 2023

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

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

May 8, 2026

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

Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)

Solomon Islands

‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late,...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 14, 2025

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare adamant deal with China won’t undermine regional security

April 21, 2022

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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

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Analysis

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

Te Ao With Moana

Asia Report

Māori delegates defend controversial ‘Indigenous’ trips to Israel

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

EDITOR'S PICKS

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Analysis

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

‘Stop empty promises’ – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands leaders demand...

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

Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

Editor's Picks

Mother rescued after triplets die in remote PNG community

Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

Analysis

Dirty Work – shining a light on the machinery of NZ’s...

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

Civil Society

Greenpeace seabed mining activists protest on board NZ research vessel Tangaroa

The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Report

Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech