Politics

A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in Bicol. With a spread out population of about 45,000. it is...

Fiji, NZ protesters kick off UN day of solidarity for Palestine amid calls for sanctions, boycotts on Israel

By David Robie Protesters in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off the UN Day of Solidarity with the...

Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups

RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time...

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on

TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend...

Caitlin Johnstone: You don’t hate the mass media enough

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone There was another IDF massacre in Gaza on Saturday, reportedly killing dozens of Palestinians. Israel as...

Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’

Asia Pacific Report Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...

Eugene Doyle: Christ wasn’t born in a stable so that Palestinians could be born in tents

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I have just attended a wonderful Christmas concert at St Mary of the Angels in Wellington - the Bach Choir, the...

The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes celebrated, sometimes controversial Michael Leunig

ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, Robert Phiddian and Stephanie Brookes Michael Leunig — who died in the early hours of Thursday December 19, surrounded by “his...

Caitlin Johnstone: Where does the aggression really begin?

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” in his alleged shooting of health insurance...

Vanuatu earthquake: ‘Our shop was flattened like a deck of cards’

By 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver A number of Kiwis have been successfully evacuated from Vanuatu after a devastating earthquake shook the Pacific island nation...

Who’s killing the Pacific? A story of lobbying, food and neocolonialism

REVIEW: By Keeara Ofren Have you ever heard a comment which made you so outraged that you were compelled to debate it in your head...