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Pacific Island fuel prices are generally high and volatile

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‘A global energy crisis’ – Fuel price hike looms for Pacific amid Iran war

March 4, 2026

AJ+ senior presenter/producer Dena Takruri

Vanuatu

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

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

Vanuatu

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

Vanuatu

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Vanuatu

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition

Vanuatu's Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu talks to the media

Vanuatu

Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu

July 25, 2025

Vanuatu

Sogavare declares full West Papuan membership in MSG ‘justifiable’

May 18, 2016

West Papua's Benny Wenda

Vanuatu

Veteran West Papua independence leader elected ULMWP president

November 25, 2023

USP's Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Vanuatu

Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat

November 29, 2023

A candidate’s campaign poster for Vanuatu’s snap general election next week on January 16

Vanuatu

Vanuatu election 2025: Earthquake aftershocks expose high cost of democracy

January 11, 2025

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit

Vanuatu

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

June 25, 2025

Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu

Vanuatu

Sad Regenvanu condemns MSG for ‘failing’ people of West Papua

August 30, 2023

Arrsted Chinese-Vanuatu citizen on Philippines "aliens watch list"

Vanuatu

Philippines arrests Chinese fugitive who became Vanuatu citizen

February 28, 2024

The president of Vanuatu's Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs, Chief Paul Robert Ravun

Vanuatu

French envoy hits back at Vanuatu’s Kanak solidarity march petition

June 26, 2024

More than 100 New Zealand police - half of them Samoan

Vanuatu

‘Climate’ CHOGM success for Samoa but what’s in it for the...

October 29, 2024

Flying high . . . the Morning Star ensign -- banned in Indonesia -- flying alongside the Vanuatu national flag in Port Vila

Vanuatu

‘The world is watching’ – it’s a test for Melanesian leaders...

August 24, 2023

Damage to South Pentecost villages in the aftermath of last year's Cyclone Lola

Vanuatu

Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola

April 28, 2025

Taking the world's biggest problem to the world’s highest court for global climate justice

Vanuatu

Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ

December 4, 2024

A flooded road on Vanuatu's Efate island after Tropical Cyclone Kevin struck

Vanuatu

Tropical Cyclone Kevin lashes Port Vila with destructive winds and heavy...

March 6, 2023

"Climate justice now" protesters in Port Vila

Vanuatu

Human rights group wants climate mobility justice on COP28 agenda

November 29, 2023

Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu initialled the Nakamal Agreement at the top of Mount Yasur. (ABC News: Lillyrose Welwel) Photo: ABC News / Lillyrose Welwel

Vanuatu

New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst

August 18, 2025

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Vanuatu

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

USP campuses

Vanuatu

Future of USP vice-chancellor in limbo but Samoa keen to be...

May 3, 2021

USP's Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Vanuatu

‘Up in arms’ USP staff challenge vice-chancellor’s stay in Samoa

November 30, 2023

Screenshot from Port Vila video showing the moment the 7.3 earthquake struck

Vanuatu

Vanuatu quake: Death toll rises – 14 dead, hundreds hurt in...

December 18, 2024

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

Vanuatu

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

August 3, 2023

Publisher, broadcaster and tourism enthusiast Marc Neil-Jones

Vanuatu

Vanuatu mourns loss of iconic Pacific media pioneer Marc Neil-Jones

Pacific Media Watch -

March 11, 2025

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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

Coronavirus

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

Vanuatu

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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Tweets by DavidRobie

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 mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

Analysis

165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes...

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Asia Report

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs. Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab

Analysis

The smallest coffins are always the heaviest. The US-Israeli killing of...

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

Analysis

War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

Curse of Gold

Asia Report

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

Asia Report

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...

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

Union organiser and socialist Joe Carolan speaking at an anti-war rally

Asia Report

US-Israeli war on Iran confusion clouds ‘off-ramp’ hope, says analyst

The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitizing atrocities and platforming war criminals

Analysis

The reporting on Iran and Gaza the US-Israel war machine can’t...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (far left) at the inaugural meeting of Trump's so-called Board of Peace

Analysis

West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Analysis

’10 classrooms full of children’ – US-Israeli war kills hundreds of...