CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Thursday, April 30, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
      Analysis

      West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

      The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader
      Analysis

      ‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

      Author Shana Chandra
      Culture

      Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

      Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin
      Analysis

      As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own…

      The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I
      Analysis

      Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Guarding Panguna mine
Bougainville

Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine

APR editor -
February 15, 2022
0
Sir David Skegg
Coronavirus

Omicron spread: ‘Crazy’ shortfall in booster numbers worries top NZ covid-19...

APR editor -
February 15, 2022
0
West Papua on Google
Analysis

How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education

APR editor -
February 15, 2022
1
Human rights abuses against Palestinians and the people of West Papua
Analysis

John Minto: The hypocrisy of NZ’s silence in calling out Israeli,...

APR editor -
February 15, 2022
0
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Coronavirus

NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern

APR editor -
February 14, 2022
0
A Pacific protester blows a conch shell horn at the anti-mandate occupation atNZ Parliament
Coronavirus

NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost...

APR editor -
February 13, 2022
0
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) with Fiji's acting PM Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Democracy

US announces deeper engagement strategy to match China in the Pacific

APR editor -
February 13, 2022
0
Anti-mandate protesters perform a haka on Parliament grounds
Coronavirus

Stronger police barriers, heavy rain, covid ads don’t dampen NZ protest

APR editor -
February 12, 2022
0
Deputy PM Grant Robertson on the right to protest
Coronavirus

Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’,...

APR editor -
February 12, 2022
0
TI Pacific corruption report
Democracy

Transparency watchdog seeks US help to tackle Pacific corruption

APR editor -
February 12, 2022
0
The protest at NZ's Parliament
Coronavirus

Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police

APR editor -
February 11, 2022
0
Police put up more barriers at Parliament protest
Coronavirus

Covid-19 outbreak: NZ police brace for fourth day of protest at...

APR editor -
February 11, 2022
0
PNG Police Sergeant Justus Baupo
Crime

Piracy a growing threat along PNG coasts, warns water police chief

APR editor -
February 11, 2022
0
Cartoonist Harn Lay
Asia Report

Vale Harn Lay, a cartoonist who stood by victims of the...

Pacific Media Watch -
February 11, 2022
0
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Coronavirus

Global media attacks on Australasian ‘covid strictness’ unfair, says NZ Herald

Pacific Media Watch -
February 10, 2022
0
Police clearing away the protesters in Parliament grounds
Coronavirus

120 protesters at NZ’s Parliament arrested as tension grows on third...

APR editor -
February 10, 2022
0
Dr Mark Craig takes a selfie as he arrives for work at a MIQ hotel in Auckland
Coronavirus

Mark Craig: Now we just need to be brave about omicron...

APR editor -
February 10, 2022
0
Sacked EMTV news manager Sincha Dimara
Democracy

Media Council condemns EMTV over ‘dangerous’ suspension of news chief

Pacific Media Watch -
February 9, 2022
0
Anti-vaxxer protesters try to break through a police barrier on New Zealand's Parliament grounds
Coronavirus

Police arrest 3 NZ anti-vax protesters after push through Beehive barrier

APR editor -
February 9, 2022
0
More than 50 police form a ring around the front of New Zealand's Parliament
Coronavirus

Covid-19: NZ protesters camped at Parliament warned over trespass

APR editor -
February 9, 2022
0
Sacked EMTV news manager Sincha Dimara
Human Rights

Suspension of EMTV’s news chief sparks PNG journo protests

Pacific Media Watch -
February 9, 2022
0
Omicron in the Pacific
Coronavirus

Latest covid-19 reports roundup across the Pacific

APR editor -
February 9, 2022
0
1...188189190...430Page 189 of 430

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

Load more

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

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Analysis

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
Analysis

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"
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

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

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

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Fiji Minister for Defence Pio Tikoduadua
Crime

Injured Fiji police officer in checkpoint incident ‘is my daughter’, says...

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Award winners, 2026
Bougainville

Bougainville advocate among all-women lineup winning Goldman Environmental prize

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

EDITOR'S PICKS

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader
Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra
Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

Load more

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

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre
Analysis

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

Indonesian police launch a brutal crackdown against Papuan protesters
Asia Report

Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader
Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra
Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Editor's Picks

Indonesian security forces crack down on a Papuan protest over the Puncak massacre

West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak

April 29, 2026
The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

April 29, 2026
Author Shana Chandra

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

April 28, 2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

April 28, 2026
The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I

Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win

April 28, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Author Shana Chandra

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

April 28, 2026
Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

April 24, 2026
Starlink green light . . . good news for many Papua New Guineans

Starlink set to return to PNG after court quashes ban, clearing...

April 27, 2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

April 28, 2026
Fiji Minister for Defence Pio Tikoduadua

Injured Fiji police officer in checkpoint incident ‘is my daughter’, says...

April 27, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8213
  • Politics5992
  • Human Rights4668
  • Syndicate4516
  • Global3933
  • New Zealand3528
  • Indigenous2905
  • RNZ Pacific2562
  • Media2257
  • Pacific Media Watch1975
  • Asia Report1962
  • Security1883
  • Democracy1880
  • Military1727
  • Justice1666
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz