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Pacific journalists at the Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) media workshop
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Media partnerships ‘vital for growing Pacific awareness’, says Vanuatu finance chief

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Evelyn Kunda at her safe house
Crime

Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’

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Suspended backbench Labour MP Dr Guarav Sharma
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Ongoing union strikes disrupt more domestic flights in New Caledonia

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Ambassador Zeng Fanhua and Sir Julius Chan
China

PNG’s longest serving politician Governor Chan hits ground running

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August 16, 2022
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Marshall Islands Red Cross staff administering Moderna vaccine in Majuro
Coronavirus

WHO declares public health emergency for Marshall Islands

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August 16, 2022
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape - Singapore visit
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August 15, 2022
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Covid testing and treatment in Majuro
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Marshall Islands covid spread demonstrates super variant

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No Tongan government investigation for three years
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Justice for West Papua
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Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’

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Papuan advocacy group calls for New Zealand scholarship to aid students

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape
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Bougainville independence issue a ‘unity test’ for PNG, says Marape

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Journalist Muhammad Asrul behind bars
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Press freedom in jeopardy amid Indonesian authoritarianism

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Fiji's Parliament in Suva
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Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?

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Cook Islands PM Mark Brown
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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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
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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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CORONAVIRUS

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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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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