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For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

Solomon Islands

Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development progress

November 7, 2025

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

Taiwan flag in Honiara's Chinatown

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building

The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports

Solomon Islands

Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet

Solomon Islands

Former PM Sogavare back for sixth term in Solomon Islands poll

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

‘Stay vigilant’, Guam governor warns over China’s Pacific intrusion

July 26, 2022

Solomon Islands

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

Pacific Media Watch -

May 27, 2020

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

Solomon Islands

PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up

March 23, 2020

PJR 26(1) cover detail

Solomon Islands

PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media

Pacific Media Watch -

August 4, 2020

Solomon Islands

Pacific officials join global tactics workshop to combat illegal fishing

March 7, 2016

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Solomon slands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing...

June 20, 2022

Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments

Solomon Islands

Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2025

Solomon Islands University vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

Solomon Islands

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

March 29, 2023

SI Police Commissioner Mostyn Managa

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police arrest 217 riot suspects, but no ‘instigators’ so...

December 3, 2021

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

Malaita province Premier Daniel Suidani

Solomon Islands

Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the...

December 8, 2021

Solomon Islands

PNG and Solomons governments call for changes to forestry

June 14, 2019

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden

Solomon Islands

As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...

March 18, 2023

The Pacific is not some rogue part of Tasmania. It’s an ocean of independent countries.

Solomon Islands

Solomons security shambles, and now it’s time for realism over hype

April 26, 2022

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Solomon Islands

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Pacific Media Watch -

August 2, 2023

Solomon Islands

Only two women elected in Solomon Islands – no new females

April 8, 2019

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

Former PCF media intern welcomes Pacific newbies on NZ exchange

Rahul Bhattarai -

June 29, 2018

Solomon Islands

MSG, ACP and the (almost) forgotten case of West Papuan independence

July 8, 2016

Solomon Islands

Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

Pacific Media Watch -

July 16, 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

"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

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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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

Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins (left) receives the Iran war petition from Greenpeace executive director Dr Russel Norman

Asia Report

Thousands urge NZ prime minister Luxon to condemn illegal US-Israeli war...

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman interviewing economist Dr Laleh Khalili

Analysis

End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

Prime Minister Manele holds firm as opposition claims majority in Solomon...

Asia Report

Western media failing to tell truth about war on Iran, says...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack

Climate

From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

A US protester holds placards reading ‘’war making is a crime’’

Asia Report

‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s...

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

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

The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack

Climate

From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

A US protester holds placards reading ‘’war making is a crime’’

Asia Report

‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...

A woman protester holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Analysis

No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s...

Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour