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Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection

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‘Be brave’ warning to nations against deepsea mining from UNOC

June 16, 2025

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release

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Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

The International Seabed Authority flag

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Trump’s push on deep sea mining leaves Nauru’s commercial ambitions ‘out in cold’

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

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Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

A personal perspective on USAID as an organisation

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Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID

February 12, 2025

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

February 3, 2025

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

NZ Climate Change Minister Simon Watts

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COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?

November 13, 2024

Part of the pro-Palestine march in Naarm/Melbourne last Sunday

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Protesters mobilise to greet Australia’s ‘Land Forces’ merchants of death

September 10, 2024

Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month

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Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

August 16, 2024

International Seabed Authority secretary-general-elect Leticia Carvalho (left) of Brazil is congratulated

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New head of UN deep-sea mining regulator vows to restore neutrality

August 3, 2024

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Pacific Media Watch -

July 24, 2024

A Fiji news conference in Suva during Media Freedom Day last year

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Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for...

March 24, 2024

Associate dean Pacific Sir Collin Tukuitonga

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Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir...

March 4, 2024

A freak wave smashes through doors at the Roi-Namur space tracking facility

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Freak waves cause damage at US army base at Roi-Namur, shut...

January 22, 2024

The University of the South Pacific's Laucala campus in Fiji

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USP prepares Pacific communities to respond to climate change

December 4, 2023

New research argues the priority now should be addressing the real driver of multiple ecological crises

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Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic...

October 23, 2023

"Stop the cuts"

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Massey University science staff, students fight for jobs and studies

October 19, 2023

Ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea

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Researchers call for urgent emissions cuts as Antarctic sea ice ‘drops...

October 3, 2023

Fiji's Health Secretary Dr James Fong

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1 in 50 Fijian children may have rheumatic heart disease, says...

September 30, 2023

The Pacific region needs to be fully informed about ongoing negotiations about the global digital landscape

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Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space

September 26, 2023

TVNZ headquarters in Auckland

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TVNZ tightens its belt with ‘tough calls’ citing ad revenue slump

Pacific Media Watch -

September 18, 2023

Pacific shipping corridors

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China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific

September 4, 2023

Retired academic Professor Vijay Naidu and Fonu Emberson-Bain -- wearing the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) tee-shirt

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Rabuka’s nuclear wastewater discharge stance splits Fiji coalition opinion

August 28, 2023

A Japanese critic of the Fukushima wastewater discharge

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‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into...

August 24, 2023

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

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Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

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

Science-Technology

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

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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

Coronavirus

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

BEARING WITNESS

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

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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

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CNMI and Guam activists stage a rally protesting against the US military buildup in the Marianas

Asia Report

‘Bridge for peace – not more bombs,’ say CNMI Gaza protesters

The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape

Bougainville

Talks result in PNG and Bougainville signing ‘Melanesian Agreement’

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Asia Report

‘Don’t surrender’ to Indonesian pressure over West Papua, Bomanak warns MSG

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Analysis

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

EDITOR'S PICKS

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

Asia Report

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

Analysis

Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

Palestine solidarity activists, university staff and students facing repression will be encouraged by Antoinette Lattouf’s (inset) victory

Asia Report

Antoinette Lattouf win against ABC a victory for all truth-tellers

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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

Starved for Peace - Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation

Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center

Aviation

Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...

Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"

Asia Report

Fiji human rights coalition challenges Rabuka over decolonisation ‘unfinished business’

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark

Asia Report

Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...