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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

The aftermath of rioting in Chinatown yesterday.

Solomon Islands

Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel

Huge rallies across West Papua region in support of MSG membership

Solomon Islands

Wenda accuses Jakarta of crackdown in response to Papuan MSG rallies

Solomon Islands

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

Cleaning up the gutted Kukum traffic police station

Solomon Islands

Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest

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

Policed bomb disposal unit in Honiara

Solomon Islands

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

May 11, 2021

Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Solomon Islands

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

May 8, 2026

The Honiara riots

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands downgraded over riots, troubles in new CIVICUS report

Sri Krishnamurthi -

December 9, 2021

USP student journalist Riya Bhagwan

Solomon Islands

USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 1, 2025

Moonset after TC Harold

Solomon Islands

When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Kanak independence flag

Solomon Islands

‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year

January 1, 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

Angie Enoka

Solomon Islands

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

May 28, 2020

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

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

February 4, 2021

SIBC steps up digital storytelling training

Solomon Islands

SIBC journos gear up for the Pacific Games the MoJo way...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 26, 2023

An Australian soldier on patrol in Honiara

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’

November 29, 2021

Facebook ban

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands businesses, rights groups condemn Facebook ban plan

Pacific Media Watch -

November 18, 2020

Media freedom in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Backlash after Solomons government reins in public broadcaster

Pacific Media Watch -

August 6, 2022

AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

Solomon Islands

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

February 17, 2026

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

Solomons’ deal with Chinese developer sparks ‘concern’

October 14, 2019

Manasseh Sogavare

Solomon Islands

Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students

September 13, 2020

Solomon Islands

Six Pacific Island nations ratify Paris Accord on climate change

Pacific Media Centre -

April 27, 2016

Solomon Islands

Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters

December 9, 2016

Solomon Islands

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

May 9, 2020

Solomon Islands

Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu win medals at Games

April 11, 2018

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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

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Fijian Jone Vakarisi

Crime

Fiji army commander admits military ‘at fault’ for custody death

Abducted NZ Gaza flotilla campaigner Sean Janssen

Asia Report

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla...

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Resigned TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman

Democracy

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into...

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...

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

Resigned TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman

Democracy

Opposition MPs say former TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman ‘hounded’ into...

Pacific media in action .

Crime

Tongan media faces new type of challenge, following threat

Starkly, in Israel’s case, not only does its actions in Gaza look like genocide, but its leaders have been crystal clear

Analysis

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself...

Mistreatment of the Sumud prisoners also breaches the Convention Against Torture

Analysis

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack...