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NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Telecommunications

Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says PM

February 20, 2023

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

Telecommunications

Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disaster

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Telecommunications

Fiji sacks PR consultants Qorvis Communications and Vatis

Huawei to build 161 telecommunication towers

Telecommunications

Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network

Vodafone in new look Digitec operation

Telecommunications

Vodafone in new ‘price cutting’ bid for PNG’s mobile phone market

The International Criminal Court in The Hague

Telecommunications

RSF refers Russian strikes on four Ukrainian TV towers for ICC...

March 6, 2022

Digicel Tonga’s technical team working on satellite link equipment

Telecommunications

Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications

Pacific Media Watch -

February 3, 2022

Workers load the HMAS Adelaide with supplies for Tonga

Telecommunications

‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official

January 23, 2022

Tonga Communications Corporation

Telecommunications

Eruption renews debate on lack of backup for Tongan communications

January 18, 2022

Tonga's undersea cable repairs needed

Telecommunications

Tonga’s undersea communications cable could take weeks to repair

January 18, 2022

Tongan geologists view the Hunga eruption

Telecommunications

Tongan volcanic eruption reveals the vulnerabilities in global telecommunications

January 18, 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Telecommunications

No reports of deaths in Tongan volcano tsunami, says NZ prime...

January 16, 2022

Professor Biman Prasad

Telecommunications

Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over...

January 1, 2022

Suva lawyer and media commentator Richard Naidu

Telecommunications

Consumer demand should be driving TV to digital platform – ‘not...

December 24, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg

Telecommunications

Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly...

February 20, 2021

NZ Reserve Bank

Telecommunications

Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches

January 11, 2021

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Telecommunications

PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

November 23, 2020

MP James Donald

Telecommunications

PNG parliamentarian faces cyber crime charges over K250m Ok Tedi claim

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 2020

Telecommunications

Jakarta files appeal against court’s ruling on Papua internet blackout

Pacific Media Watch -

June 21, 2020

Telecommunications

Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel in Philippines

Pacific Media Watch -

June 15, 2020

Telecommunications

Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules

Pacific Media Watch -

June 4, 2020

BS-CBN supporters

Telecommunications

Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

May 6, 2020

BAKTI at Pacific 2019 Expo

Telecommunications

Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...

July 16, 2019

Telecommunications

Tonga’s communications blackout ‘a problem out of their control’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 24, 2019

Telecommunications

Tongasat’s appeal aimed at hindering suing former PMs, says Pōhiva

October 27, 2018

Telecommunications

Dan McGarry: Strings attached, please – but the choice isn’t so...

June 26, 2018

Telecommunications

Keith Jackson: Did dumb just get dumber and Sam Basil dig...

June 3, 2018

CLIMATE AND COVID

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

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

CORONAVIRUS

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

Coronavirus

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

Covid reaches Tokelau

Coronavirus

Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends

Professor Michael Baker

Coronavirus

WHO covid-19 status changed but still NZ’s infectious ‘number one killer’

Professor Michael Baker

Coronavirus

Smaller covid waves in NZ, but still ‘major uncertainties’ – professor

Professor Michael Baker's covid-19 fourth wave warning

Coronavirus

‘Mask up’ – warns epidemiologist over NZ’s rising fourth wave...

The “Jacinda effect” had switched from being a uniting force to a polarising one

Climate

Jacinda Ardern says goodbye to parliament – how her politics of...

BEARING WITNESS

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

Bearing Witness

Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere

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APJS NEWSFILE

APJS newsfile

While PNG promotes APEC big money, youth are building grassroots resilience

APJS newsfile

40 luxury Maseratis for PNG, but little effort put into climate...

APJS newsfile

Tukuitonga goes into battle on behalf of Pacific for WHO position

APJS newsfile

Memo NZ: ‘Get on the right side of history’ over West...

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Mayor Wayne Brown's backdown

Democracy

Auckland Council fails to decide over controversial budget – reconvening...

Pasifika broadcasters

Cook Islands

‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

French Overseas Minister Gerald Darmanin speaking on Caledonia TV

Decolonisation

French minister says FLNKS ‘willing to discuss’ election roll changes

Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson

Climate

‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence

EDITOR'S PICKS

PNG's stood down Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko

Democracy

20 MPs walk out as PNG’s Tkatchenko apologises for ‘media trolls’...

Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern

Coronavirus

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

South Australian MPs rally against the draconian new anti-protest law

Australia

South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest

This image of Tui O'Sullivan is a portrait painted by Professor Welby Ings

Culture

Obituary: Tui Rererangi Walsh O’Sullivan, the ‘flying bird in the sky’

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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

Expert witness Dr Robert Masreng testifies during the treason trial of three Papuan students

Asia Report

Papuan students accused of ‘treason’ over raising Morning Star flags

Panguna mine . . . the flooding

Bougainville

Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

The US military continues Guam build-up

Civil Society

Guam’s indigenous people ‘feel less safe’ over US military build-up

The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila

Asia Report

West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG