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    • A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions
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Convicted Fiji murderer Sairusi Ceinaturaga outside the Suva High Court
Crime

Fiji journalists condemn police over lack of courthouse security after another...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 24, 2025
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Samoan Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
Democracy

PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 24, 2025
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Elections

Potential Tonga PM candidate: ‘Low-hanging fruits available’ to improve people’s lives

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November 24, 2025
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Former Israeli military spokesman
Asia Report

Israel has lost social media battle over Gaza, says military ex-spokesperson

Pacific Media Watch -
November 23, 2025
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A tribute in Māngere East's Village Green
Civil Society

Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East

APR editor -
November 23, 2025
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A SodaStream critical placard in today's protest
Asia Report

Protesters march to Warehouse in Auckland city, demand halt to Israeli...

APR editor -
November 22, 2025
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Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
Culture

Samoan PM takes aim at local journalists, claims overseas media ‘in...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 22, 2025
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World Indigenous People's Conference on Education
Culture

‘My mana reignited’: Attendees leave world’s largest Indigenous education conference feeling...

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November 21, 2025
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Gaza's UNSC Resolution 2803
Asia Report

Ramzy Baroud: Pathetic attempt to achieve by Gaza decree what US-Israel...

APR editor -
November 21, 2025
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Surangel S. Whipps Jr addressing the Climate Summit 2025
Australia

Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host...

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November 21, 2025
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Pro-independence Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM) leader Victor Tutugoro (centre with hat) and the party’s political bureau at a media conference this week in Nouméa
Decolonisation

New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS

APR editor -
November 21, 2025
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Here we are almost 40 years later: another puffed-up scandal. Another BBC head falling to the outrage of the British Tory press, thanks to President Trum
Australia

Bending over backwards for the right isn’t saving the BBC. It...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 20, 2025
0
Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
Democracy

RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 20, 2025
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Newly elected Tongan noble Lord Ma'afu
Elections

Tonga election: Two new lords as 9 noble seats decided

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November 20, 2025
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Feroz Aswat of Auckland Copiers and Solutions Ltd
Business

Fiji Business Awards celebrate big achievements from humble beginnings

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November 20, 2025
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President Prabowo and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign an Australia–Indonesia Security Treaty on board HMAS Canberra
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Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua

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November 20, 2025
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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force
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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means...

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November 19, 2025
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Journalism Students' Association of USP . . . "The JSA is especially concerned that these attacks are eroding youth confidence in the [journalism] profession"
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Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’

Pacific Media Watch -
November 19, 2025
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Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt
Democracy

Samoa editor says media freedom under attack in response to PM’s...

Pacific Media Watch -
November 19, 2025
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Decolonisation

Minister Moutchou ends New Caledonia visit – political announcements, no new...

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November 18, 2025
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New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
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Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face...

APR editor -
November 18, 2025
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The UN Security Council adopted the US-sponsored Gaza resolution 13 votes to nil
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IDF failed on battlefield to disarm Hamas, but UN vote gives...

APR editor -
November 18, 2025
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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

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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

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BEARING WITNESS

"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...

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 Robievideo
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

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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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Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win...

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua
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“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film
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A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions
Asia Report

After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed
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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
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Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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Luxon defends NZ’s position on Iran attacks – same as Australia

The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities
Asia Report

Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu issue advisories amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran

A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions
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After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

Iranian politician, author, and lawyer Mohammad Mossadegh
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A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos...

March 2, 2026
Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed

Trump starts major ‘regime-change’ war with Iran, serving neoconservatism and Israel

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Carlos Latuff on the US-Israel dual attacks on Iran

Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of...

March 1, 2026
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

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

March 1, 2026
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