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Flooding in Sorong
Disasters

Two die in heavy floods in West Papuan city Sorong

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August 25, 2022
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Vanuatu's Supreme Court
Democracy

Vanuatu’s chief justice orders change over dissolution of parliament plea

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August 24, 2022
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Pacific Capture
China

ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture...

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August 24, 2022
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Prime Minister James Marape's line-up
Elections

Marape delivers shock cabinet choice with three cash crop ministries

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August 24, 2022
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Burning squatter homes near Port Vila
Development

Residents torch own homes rather than let Vanuatu police destroy them

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August 24, 2022
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Two new women MPs elected in PNG
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Women – just two – back in PNG’s Parliament but more...

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August 23, 2022
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Police keep eye on the protest at NZ Parliament
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No arrests as ‘freedom’ protest winds up peacefully outside NZ’s Parliament

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August 23, 2022
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Huawei to build 161 telecommunication towers
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Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network

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August 23, 2022
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PNG Chief Ombudsman Richard Pagen
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Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity

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August 23, 2022
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PNG's police chief David Manning names Mendi suspects
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PNG police probe into Mendi mayhem names four rival political suspects

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NZ is buying Kiwibank
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Ardern, Robertson talk Kiwibank, Sharma and NZ flooding

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August 22, 2022
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Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of...

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August 22, 2022
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UN report blames Fiji student dropout on ‘inadequate parental support’

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August 22, 2022
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Papuan Governor's spokesperson Rifai Darus
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Papuan governor supports advocacy group’s call for NZ scholarship

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August 22, 2022
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Prayer meeting against sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV)
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‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to...

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August 21, 2022
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A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists

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Mendi mayhem
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Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station

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August 20, 2022
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Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree

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August 19, 2022
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August 19, 2022
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Educator Hiroshi Taniguchi
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Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian

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August 19, 2022
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French nuclear weapons tests Bruno Barrillot
Environment

Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia

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August 19, 2022
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Vanuatu President Nikenike Vurobaravu
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Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman

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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
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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
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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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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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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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

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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)
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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

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