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
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • 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
    • A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
      Analysis

      China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

      Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
      Culture

      Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

      NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
      Analysis

      Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s…

      Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus
      Analysis

      West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian…

      NSW Premier Chris Minns
      Asia Report

      An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and…

  • 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
Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad
Reviews

Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor

Pacific Media Watch -
October 26, 2025
Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Reviews

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military

Reviews

The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste
Reviews

The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1: The Battlefield

Curse of Gold
Reviews

Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

Nicky Hager (left) with his publisher Robbie Burton
Reviews

A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager

Pacific Media Watch -
September 22, 2022
0
Reviews

Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies

APR editor -
March 1, 2016
1
Reviews

Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge

APR editor -
March 30, 2017
0
West Papua independence supporters in Manokwari
Reviews

A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest...

Pacific Media Watch -
April 17, 2024
0
Lilo Ema Siopevideo
Reviews

Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka...

Sri Krishnamurthi -
July 22, 2020
0
video
Reviews

Rainbow Warrior … launch of the new ‘last voyage’ and bombing...

David Robie -
August 6, 2015
0
Reviews

Behind the Blockade : A ‘prisoner’ mother’s struggle to remove barriers

APR editor -
February 29, 2016
2
The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain
Reviews

How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior...

APR editor -
December 5, 2024
0
1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Reviews

Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific

APR editor -
March 12, 2026
0
Reviews

Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance

David Robie -
January 9, 2016
3
Martyred women in the Philippines
Reviews

Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw...

David Robie -
September 18, 2022
0
Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Reviews

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Pacific Media Watch -
April 22, 2026
0
video
Reviews

Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal

APR editor -
December 14, 2016
0
Reviews

The Opposition: Paga Hill’s villagers fight for justice in PNG

Pacific Media Watch -
February 10, 2018
0
Owen Wilkes
Reviews

Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

APR editor -
February 21, 2023
0
Pilot and author Silva McLeod
Reviews

Fantasy like Moana? ‘No, I just wanted to tell my story,’...

Sri Krishnamurthi -
May 10, 2023
0
American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson
Reviews

Abby Martin’s documentary takes on the ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ ecocide

APR editor -
August 1, 2026
0
Anand Giridharadas
Reviews

Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author

APR editor -
July 11, 2020
0
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
Reviews

Pesta Babi – ‘Pig Feast’ . . . a vivid new...

Pacific Media Watch -
March 1, 2026
0
Auli'i Cravalho is still great as Moana
Reviews

Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel

Pacific Media Watch -
December 2, 2024
0
Reviews

Contrasting accounts of Indonesian genocide and betrayal in West Papua

David Robie -
July 16, 2018
1
The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning
Reviews

The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

APR editor -
July 3, 2025
0
1234Page 1 of 4

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

Load more

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

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Reviews

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...

Tweet to @DavidRobie
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

The number of Fijians who are HIV positive has risen to at least 9000
Editor's Picks

Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns...

After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old Hind Rajab’s car
Asia Report

Palestinian theologian warns against trusting Israel over Hind, medics killings probe

Indonesian military forces in action in Intan Jaya regency in Central Papua province this week
Asia Report

West Papua issue likely to be on agenda in Palau, says...

Australia's march for humanity and an end to Israel's Gaza genocide
Asia Report

Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

EDITOR'S PICKS

A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
Analysis

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
Culture

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Analysis

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus
Analysis

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

Load more

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

A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website
Analysis

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
Culture

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

NSW Justice Desmond Fagan
Analysis

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus
Analysis

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

Editor's Picks

A "I love China" cartoon on today's China Daily website

China Daily, collaborations, media education and Pacific outreach

August 24, 2026
Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun

Lakapi Samoa CEO warns World Rugby sanctions could end Manu Samoa

August 24, 2026
NSW Justice Desmond Fagan

Segal’s speech code meets the law – Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s...

August 24, 2026
Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

August 24, 2026
NSW Premier Chris Minns

An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

August 23, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Caretaker Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown with supporters on election night

Stability key driver in Cook Islands Party’s election performance, says analyst

August 21, 2026
In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts,...

August 19, 2026
Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian reporters near Nablus

West Bank: RSF condemns Israeli army over escalating violence against Palestinian...

August 24, 2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...

August 21, 2026
Education Minister Aseri Radrodro

Chinese language to be taught in Fiji schools to strengthen educational...

August 18, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8508
  • Politics6334
  • Human Rights4948
  • Syndicate4862
  • Global4261
  • New Zealand3717
  • Indigenous3158
  • RNZ Pacific2696
  • Media2396
  • Pacific Media Watch2211
  • Asia Report2184
  • Democracy2120
  • Security2011
  • Military1936
  • Justice1883
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz