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
Saturday, May 23, 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
    • Analysis

      Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred…

      New Zealand . . . steadily pushing Pacific regional defence co-operation on a number of fronts
      Analysis

      Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of…

      Spanish MEP Irene Montero
      Asia Report

      Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,…

      New Caledonia’s MP at the French National Assembly Emmanuel Tjibaou (pro-independence) after the French National Assembly endorsed changes in New Caledonia’s electoral roll for provincial elections
      Decolonisation

      French National Assembly allows ‘native’ voters to take part in local…

      Chinese embassy staff in Nauru with government officials hosted a New Year Candy Parade on 2 January 2026
      Asia Report

      Nauru orders public servants, govt bodies to follow ‘One China’ policy

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Gaza's "port" area showing the degree of devastation
Analysis

Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
0
Signing the Pukpuk Treaty
Analysis

The Pukpuk Treaty and the future of Papua New Guinea-Australia relations

APR editor -
October 9, 2025
0
Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
Asia Report

NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says

APR editor -
October 8, 2025
0
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)
Bougainville

Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

APR editor -
October 8, 2025
0
Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Analysis

John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...

APR editor -
October 7, 2025
0
Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?
Asia Report

Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...

Pacific Media Watch -
October 7, 2025
0
Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers
Bougainville

‘We want legitimate leaders’: Bougainvilleans head to the polls amid push...

APR editor -
September 5, 2025
0
Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son
Analysis

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

Pacific Media Watch -
September 5, 2025
0
Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
Civil Society

Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

APR editor -
September 4, 2025
0
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General
Democracy

UN chief to address PNG parliament today during ‘historic’ visit

APR editor -
September 3, 2025
0
"His favourite merchant." - Mr Fish
Analysis

Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

Pacific Media Watch -
September 3, 2025
0
A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
Analysis

Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 2, 2025
0
Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists
Asia Report

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

Pacific Media Watch -
September 1, 2025
0
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Democracy

Fijian PM Rabuka hints at ‘historic’ referendum after landmark court ruling

APR editor -
September 1, 2025
0
Civil Society

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch -
September 1, 2025
0
Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"
Asia Report

Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...

APR editor -
September 1, 2025
0
Indonesian security forces fire tear gas to quell protests at Manokwari
Asia Report

West Papuan civil society groups protest over brutal security forces crackdown...

APR editor -
September 1, 2025
0
Former NZ politician Aupito Tofae Su'a William Sio
Elections

‘Huge relief’ in Samoa post snap general election, says Aupito

APR editor -
August 31, 2025
0
Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme
Asia Report

How two Filipino ‘journalists’ took part in Israeli whitewashing of genocide

APR editor -
August 31, 2025
0
Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea
Bougainville

Bougainville 2025 election: What’s at stake?

APR editor -
August 31, 2025
0
Samoa's Electoral Commissioner Toleafoa Tuiafelolo Alexander Stanley briefing the media on election day
Elections

Samoa snap election: No results just yet, says electoral commissioner

APR editor -
August 30, 2025
0
Columnist Gordon Campbell
Asia Report

Two state, deluded state – shuffling of the deck isn’t stopping...

APR editor -
August 29, 2025
0
1...282930...434Page 29 of 434
- Advertisement -

APLICATIONS

Human Rights

Papuan activist escapes attempted abduction

PMC Reporter -
September 29, 2016
2
A Papuan activist has escaped an attempted abduction by men who claimed to police officers at his his home in Sorong, West Papua. Agustinus Aud,...
Mediaworks sexual harassment culture

MediaWorks and NZ’s problem with toxic work cultures — why HR...

August 14, 2021
Southern Lebanon journalist Amal Khalil

Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

April 25, 2026
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

NZ’s prime minister Luxon in Niue: ‘This is the Pacific family’

June 5, 2024

HOT NEWS

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has expressed grave concern for the safety and well-being of human rights activists Palestinian Saif Abu Kishek and Brazilian Thiago Ávila, who were abducted by Israeli commandos
Asia Report

Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...

Kia Ora Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla
Asia Report

Kia Ora Gaza reveals more on Freedom Flotilla plans to break...

Gallery

Images: ‘No BCL, no mining,’ say protesting Panguna women

Climate

Nations close ranks to stop ‘big four’ oil producers watering down...

Editor's Picks

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...

May 22, 2026
New Zealand . . . steadily pushing Pacific regional defence co-operation on a number of fronts

Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of...

May 22, 2026
Spanish MEP Irene Montero

Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,...

May 21, 2026
New Caledonia’s MP at the French National Assembly Emmanuel Tjibaou (pro-independence) after the French National Assembly endorsed changes in New Caledonia’s electoral roll for provincial elections

French National Assembly allows ‘native’ voters to take part in local...

May 21, 2026
Chinese embassy staff in Nauru with government officials hosted a New Year Candy Parade on 2 January 2026

Nauru orders public servants, govt bodies to follow ‘One China’ policy

May 21, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gloating as security forces mistreat the Global Sumud Flotilla captives

Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against...

May 21, 2026
Israeli soldiers board a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla vessel and hold the crew at gunpoint

Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla...

May 19, 2026
Israeli military intervene in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea to seize the Global Sumud Fleet

Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by...

May 19, 2026
New Zealand . . . steadily pushing Pacific regional defence co-operation on a number of fronts

Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of...

May 22, 2026
Israeli embassy controversy in Wellington

Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA

May 20, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8275
  • Politics6070
  • Human Rights4731
  • Syndicate4590
  • Global4003
  • New Zealand3562
  • Indigenous2961
  • RNZ Pacific2589
  • Media2293
  • Pacific Media Watch2023
  • Asia Report2006
  • Democracy1943
  • Security1912
  • Military1768
  • Justice1708
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