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Slips from Vanuatu's earthquake today

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Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila

December 17, 2024

Vanuatu rescuers search for trapped people after yesterday's 7.3 earthquake struck Port Vila

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Vanuatu quake: Services still down nearly 24 hours after Port Vila hit

Vanuatu local authorities have been working around the clock since Tuesday to try to locate and rescue people trapped in the Port Vila rubble left by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake this week

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Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors

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

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Vanuatu quake: Death toll rises – 14 dead, hundreds hurt in 7.3 disaster

Associate Education Minister David Seymour

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NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities

Fiji tourism . . . seven foreigners were drinking cocktails

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Fiji resort guests reported to be stable following suspected alcohol poisoning

December 16, 2024

The entrance to Regional Processing Centre One

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Nauru-Australia Treaty: Strategic gain or ‘corrupt arrangement’?

December 11, 2024

Staff leave the Newshub studio in central Auckland

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RNZ Mediawatch: Under the sinking lid from offshore tech companies

Pacific Media Watch -

December 15, 2024

USP's Laucala campus

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‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for...

July 20, 2024

The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports

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Facebook reportedly censors posts by Solomon Islands news outlet

Pacific Media Watch -

July 26, 2024

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

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Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis...

December 6, 2024

The French political impasse

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What the fall of the French government means for New Caledonia

December 5, 2024

Resigned Tongan Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni

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Tonga’s Speaker confirms new PM to be chosen on Christmas Eve

December 10, 2024

Vanuatu's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment Ralph Regenvanu with advocate Julian Aguon

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Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting...

December 4, 2024

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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NZ’s Foreign Minister Peters embarks on three-day visit to New Caledonia

December 3, 2024

Fuimaono Dr Dylan Asafo

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Cook Islands seeks ‘decolonisation’ of international law at ICJ

December 9, 2024

Pacific verdict on COP29

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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

November 25, 2024

Guam Governor Leon Guerrero welcomes Taiwan's President Lai to Guam

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Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam

December 5, 2024

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

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COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

November 25, 2024

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NZ seeks ‘explanations’ over USP mismanagement allegations

May 24, 2019

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Peters urges France to keep ‘open mind’ on new path for...

November 27, 2024

"USP leadership in crisis" banner at an earlier staff protest against the regional Pacific university's management

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Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes

December 7, 2024

Kanaky New Caledonia's CCAT leader Christian Téin detained in France

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Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin to remain in mainland French jail

December 2, 2024

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti

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‘What’s good for Māori is good for everyone’ – Hīkoi ends...

November 19, 2024

Fijian peacekeepers

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Syria crisis: Fijian peacekeepers ‘secure and accounted for’ amid tensions

December 10, 2024

The Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae marae

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More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae

January 20, 2024

Possible "kingmakers"? . . . Members of the opposition Sodelpa party executive

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Fiji elections: Bainimarama’s FijiFirst party fails to gain parliament majority

December 18, 2022

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

RNZ Pacific

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

RNZ Pacific

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

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

RNZ Pacific

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

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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

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

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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

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

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

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King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade

BEARING WITNESS

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

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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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

Associate Education Minister David Seymour

RNZ Pacific

NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech...

Paramedic teams from ProMedical Vanuatu treat victims of the earthquake in Port Vila on Tuesday

Disasters

Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows

The recreated Christian nativity scene in Suva

Asia Report

Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at...

Fiji tourism . . . seven foreigners were drinking cocktails

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Fiji resort guests reported to be stable following suspected alcohol poisoning

EDITOR'S PICKS

A scene of utter devastation in Gaza

Asia Report

Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’

This image "will haunt history"

Asia Report

West and media are ‘erasing’ Palestinian history, say critics

Rescue operations underway on a commercial building flattened by the earthquake in Vanuatu 17 Dec 2024

Disasters

Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off capital...

Recent aid arrangements are emblematic of the geopolitical tussle playing out in the Pacific between China and the US and its allies

Analysis

Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...

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

By turns over his long career, Michael Leunig was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur

Australia

The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes...

A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

RNZ Pacific

Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu

A scene of utter devastation in Gaza

Asia Report

Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’

1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver in Port Vila

Disasters

Vanuatu quake: ‘Our shop was flattened like a deck of cards’