CLOSE
News
Analysis
Reportage
Pacific Report
Asia Report
APJS newsfile
Climate
Country
Pacific Report
Australia
Cook Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Palau-Belau
Papua New Guinea
Rapanui
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
West Papua
Asia Report
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Indonesia
Lao
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Vietnam
Thailand
Other
Editor’s Picks
Multimedia
Multimedia
PMC on Demand
Audio
Gallery
Video
PMC on Demand
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Login
About Asia Pacific Report
Contact
EveningReport.nz
Pacific Media Centre
News
Analysis
Reportage
Pacific Report
Asia Report
APJS newsfile
Climate
Country
Pacific Report
Australia
Cook Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Palau-Belau
Papua New Guinea
Rapanui
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
West Papua
Asia Report
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Indonesia
Lao
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Vietnam
Thailand
Other
Editor’s Picks
Asia Report
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
Business
New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS…
Asia Report
Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats…
Analysis
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
Analysis
Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal…
Multimedia
Multimedia
PMC on Demand
Audio
Gallery
Video
PMC on Demand
Home
Reviews
Reviews
Random
Latest
Featured posts
Most popular
7 days popular
By review score
Random
Reviews
A Listener flashback: The sacking of an editor
APR editor
-
May 9, 2020
Reviews
PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media
Reviews
How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series
Reviews
RSF cheekily climbing the barricades
Reviews
Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor
Reviews
How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace
David Robie
-
April 23, 2019
1
Reviews
Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must...
APR editor
-
August 19, 2025
0
Reviews
Drone killings on a par with mafia hitmen murders
David Robie
-
March 9, 2017
1
Reviews
Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance
David Robie
-
January 9, 2016
3
Reviews
West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and...
APR editor
-
March 8, 2026
0
Reviews
An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face...
APR editor
-
March 3, 2023
0
Reviews
Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua
David Robie
-
July 16, 2018
1
Reviews
Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel
Pacific Media Watch
-
December 2, 2024
0
Reviews
A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...
Shailendra Singh
-
August 3, 2016
0
Reviews
Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true
APR editor
-
December 24, 2020
0
Reviews
Late Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Pacific royal tour teaches us much about...
APR editor
-
September 9, 2022
0
Reviews
David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow...
APR editor
-
December 1, 2025
0
Reviews
Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge
APR editor
-
March 30, 2017
0
Reviews
The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...
APR editor
-
July 3, 2025
0
Reviews
Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River
Pacific Media Watch
-
July 19, 2017
0
Reviews
Behind scenes probe of Bougainville struggle for independence tops PJR
APR editor
-
October 2, 2021
3
Reviews
PJR warns growing risks and hostile laws ‘silencing’ Melanesian media
Pacific Media Watch
-
August 4, 2020
0
Reviews
Hard-hitting documentary explores Tongan ‘deportee dumping’ lives
Pacific Media Watch
-
February 19, 2019
0
Reviews
Is the #MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?
APR editor
-
March 8, 2022
0
Reviews
West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not...
David Robie
-
May 18, 2020
1
Reviews
The bloody 1965-66 slaughter – behind Indonesia’s mass killings secrecy
APR editor
-
August 9, 2019
0
Reviews
Pacific Journalism Review turns 30 – and challenges media over Gaza
Pacific Journalism Review
-
July 7, 2024
0
1
2
3
4
Page 1 of 4
CLIMATE AND COVID
Climate
COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’
Asia Report
COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...
Analysis
Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific
Analysis
How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic
Load more
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus
Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation
Coronavirus
Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO
Coronavirus
Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence
Analysis
NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...
Coronavirus
NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...
Coronavirus
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
Load more
BEARING WITNESS
Reviews
Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...
Analysis
Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived
Analysis
Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...
Asia Report
27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...
Bearing Witness
Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...
APJS newsfile
Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response
Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie
APJS NEWSFILE
APJS newsfile
Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice
APJS newsfile
Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers
APJS newsfile
Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...
APJS newsfile
Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top
POPULAR POSTS
Asia Report
NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...
Democracy
Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF
Australia
Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...
Asia Report
Former Greek minister slams ‘Western complicity’ over brutal Israeli kidnap...
EDITOR'S PICKS
Asia Report
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
Business
New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...
Asia Report
Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...
Analysis
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
Load more
MOST COMMENTS
Australia
Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...
Analysis
Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace
Global
Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ
Asia Report
Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva
GLOBAL REPORTAGE
Asia Report
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
Business
New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...
Analysis
Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution
Democracy
Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion
