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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

Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Adaptation Ralph Regenvanu

Solomon Islands

West Papuan supporters ‘let down’ by MSG leaders, says advocate

Angie Enoka

Solomon Islands

Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says researcher

Solomon Islands

Fear of reprisal puts limit on Pacific human rights journalism, say advocates

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Solomon Islands

China’s high-level ‘milestone’ visit to the Pacific ahead of schedule

Solomon Islands

COP21: Pacific battles for recognition in new Climate Change agreement

December 4, 2015

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

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands crush Fiji to seal place in Futsal World Cup

February 19, 2016

Angie Enoka

Solomon Islands

Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says...

May 28, 2020

Solomon Islands

Tokelau’s new ferry Mataliki slips quietly into Apia port

February 4, 2016

New Zealand Defence Force troops in Honiara

Solomon Islands

More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands

December 5, 2021

Solomon Islands

NZ should learn from Pacific on media freedom issues, says PMC...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 3, 2019

AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

Solomon Islands

How Israel won the Pacific – and its backing at the...

February 17, 2026

Solomon Islands

More aid to Solomon Islands from Australia and New Zealand

June 7, 2019

Solomon Islands

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

Shailendra Singh -

August 3, 2016

Solomon Islands

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

Solomon Islands

‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of...

April 25, 2019

Solomon Islands

Commonwealth observer group praises Solomon Islands election

April 8, 2019

Wutung PNG border post

Solomon Islands

Pacific coronavirus: Cases jump to 26 across the region

Sri Krishnamurthi -

March 20, 2020

Solomon Islands

Melanesian advocate criticises Pacific languages strategy ‘blunder’

October 27, 2022

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM challenges court order to face no-confidence vote within...

April 15, 2026

The Anzac Day ceremony at the Wellington war memorial

Solomon Islands

Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific

April 25, 2022

Solomon Islands

West Papuans in Vanuatu reject Jakarta response to Solomons PM

May 25, 2016

MASI's Georgina Kekea

Solomon Islands

Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation

Pacific Media Watch -

May 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

Seven Pacific states blast Indonesia for human rights violations in West...

March 2, 2017

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

Solomon Islands

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

May 11, 2021

West Papuan leader Benny Wenda (left) and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon Islands

Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader

March 3, 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

Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga sings and dances along to a cultural song after Saturday's Super Rugby Pacific Round 15 match

Editor's Picks

‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future

French President Emmanuel Macron and Papua New Guinea PM James Marape meeting

Aviation

PNG prime minister visits France, plans to open Paris embassy

"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

Cuban doctors arriving back from Italy following the covid outbreak in 2020

Analysis

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...

EDITOR'S PICKS

"The face of courage vs the face of evil"

Analysis

‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...

"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

Asia Report

How the Israeli military is illegally grabbing land ‘everywhere’

Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

Crime

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

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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

"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

Asia Report

How the Israeli military is illegally grabbing land ‘everywhere’

Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

Crime

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails

Analysis

Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin...