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Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

SIBC journalists gear up for the Pacific Games the MoJo way with ABC help

By Robert Iroga Australia’s support for the Solomon Islands media sector is long-standing and is now providing support for the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC)...

Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space

By Ema Ganivatu and Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva A recent webinar hosted by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) brought together minds from across the...

Release of Victor Yeimo from Indonesian prison rekindles West Papuan fight against racism

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Prominent West Papuan independence activist Victor Yeimo was yesterday released from prison in Jayapura, Indonesia’s occupied capital of West Papua,...

IPI condemns arrest of French investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux over ‘Egypt papers’

Pacific Media Watch The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the arrest and interrogation of French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux and demanded her immediate release. She...

NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power broker – the rise and rise of Te Pāti Māori

ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi told his fellow MPs: You know what...

‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords

Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with...