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Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

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

July 30, 2025

China's BeiDou communications satellite

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Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is more about a looming new ‘tech cold war’

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

Science-Technology

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

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Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert

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Guam nuclear radiation survivors ‘heartbroken’ over exclusion from compensation bill

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

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

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

February 3, 2025

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...

August 15, 2023

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

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

May 26, 2025

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

March 15, 2025

The International Seabed Authority flag

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

May 5, 2025

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NZ remains low-risk but must protect Pacific nations from Covid-19 virus

March 7, 2020

Helen Clark

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Boe climate and security pact big step forward, but lacks a...

Jessica Marshall -

September 21, 2018

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

Celebrating the launch of USP's SCORI on 22May23

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Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea...

May 29, 2023

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

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

Tuvalu proposes to create its digital twin in the metaverse

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An entire Pacific country will upload itself to the metaverse. It’s...

November 17, 2022

Hunga-Ha’apai and Hunga-Tonga erupting in Tonga

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Why the volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, and what...

January 16, 2022

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

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

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

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior berthed in Suva harbour in Fiji

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Rainbow Warrior sails Pacific seeking evidence for World Court climate case

August 14, 2023

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

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

"Stop the cuts"

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Massey University science staff, students fight for jobs and studies

October 19, 2023

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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

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

Science-Technology

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

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...

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

Science-Technology

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?

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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

Resigned Reuters photographer Valerie Zink

Asia Report

Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza

Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

Asia Report

Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists

Columnist Gordon Campbell

Asia Report

Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping...

Jubi chief editor Victor Mambor

Asia Report

Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor

EDITOR'S PICKS

Columnist Gordon Campbell

Asia Report

Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping...

New Zealand protesters carrying symbolic bodies of journalists assassinated by the Israeli military in Gaza

Asia Report

There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians...

New Zealand protesters over the Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza carry symbolic bodies

Asia Report

NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza...

RNZ’s diminishing linear radio audience has to be understood in context

Analysis

A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news –...

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

Columnist Gordon Campbell

Asia Report

Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping...

New Zealand protesters carrying symbolic bodies of journalists assassinated by the Israeli military in Gaza

Asia Report

There is a plot Mr Luxon: It’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians...

Indonesian security forces clash with West Papuan protesters in Manokwari, Sorong, today

Asia Report

Wenda accuses Indonesia of killing West Papuans for ‘independence’ day

More than 100,000 registered voters are heading to the polls to decide Samoa's next government.

Elections

Polls open in Samoa’s 2025 general election with one seat declared