Pasifika TV

23/07/2025

Malo 'aupito Miss Heilala 2024-2025, Racheal Guttenbeil! 🙏🏾🇹🇴❤️

21/07/2025

Congratulations to all our athletes who competed at the Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games!! 🇵🇼❤️

Thanks to the generosity of the Australian Government, Australian Embassy - Palau we were able to bring you the 'Daily Highlights Programme' which marks a historical first, the very first programme to be broadcast regionally from Palau, delivering comprehensive coverage of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games. Vinaka vakalevu Paul Vunituraga! 🙏🏾

There were 23 Pacific Nations who competed and 22 Pacific Nations walked away with medals:
🇵🇫 Tahiti
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇼🇸 Samoa
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
🇲🇵 Northern Marianas
🇳🇨 New Caledonia
🇦🇸 American Samoa
🇵🇼 Palau
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇬🇺 Guam
🇼🇫 Uvea mo Futuna
🇨🇰 Cook Islands
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇳🇷 Nauru
🇹🇴 Tonga
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
🇫🇲 Federated States of Micronesia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
🇹🇰 Tokelau

Photo credit:
📸 .tv by Annice Lyn / ANOC
📸 The Reporters Academy by Ryota Nishida
or noted on individual photos
📸 Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games

Please visit the official Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games platforms for the medal standings:
🌐 Website https://www.palau2025pmg.com/
📲 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/1AkucvPooT/

16/07/2025

Thank you Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games and the generosity of Australian Government Australian Embassy, Palau for making it possible for the mini games to be viewed in the region! 🙏🏾❤️

15/07/2025

THANK YOU WANTOKS FOR JOINING US FOR JUNE! 🙏🏾 WE ARE EXCITED TO BRING YOU THE FOLLOWING FOR JULY 2025! 🥳❤️

JULY 2025
🌺 The installation of the Tui Nayau, Tui Lau, Sau ni Vanua ko Lau thanks to our friends Fiji Broadcasting Corporation FBC TV
🌺 2025 Pacific Regional & National Security Conference
🌺 Daily Highlights of the Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games thanks to Australian Government, Australian Embassy Palau
🌺 His Majesty King Tupou VI’s official welcome to Fiji thanks to Fijian Broadcasting Corporation FBC TV
🌺 Miss Heilala Pageant thanks to the Miss Heilala organisers and our friends Tonga Broadcasting Corporation TBC TV
🌺 IHF Men’s U17 Beach Handball World Championships in Tunisia 2025—and the Cook Islands U17 are the only Pacific nation competing (Men's team)

CONTINUATION
🌺 Fresh Season 2024
🌺 Kai Taim
🌺 Nesian Fusion
🌺 Play and Storytime, delightful children’s programming from Samoa, Niue, and Solomon Islands
🌺 VBTC The Canoe Race - this programme is bilingual in English and Bislama
🌺 News from the Pacific thanks to our Pacific Broadcasters. You can also watch it on Tagata Pasifika.

JUNE 2025
🌺 Love & Kastom Cinema launch in Vanuatu thanks to the NZ On Air Pacific Regional Media Fund (PRMF) VBTC and Great Southern TV (GSTV) Adrian Stevanon
🌺 Heads of Mission from across the Pacific hosted by our friends Pacific Connections - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Auckland
🌺 Matariki (Māori New Year) thanks to our friends TVNZ
🌺 Pacific On Air from TBC, MaiTV, FBC, FijiTV, VBTC and CITV
🌺 Oceania Rugby U20 Challenge
🌺 2025 MFAT PCF Voices of the RSE Worker Tonga

Photo credit noted on individual photos 🙏🏾📸

PACIFIC BROADCASTERS NEAR YOU:
🇦🇸 KVZK TV
🇦🇸 PCS TV
🇨🇰 Araura TV
🇨🇰 CITV Cook Islands Television News
🇨🇰 Mangaia TV
🇨🇰 Vaka Tv
🇫🇯 FBC TV
🇫🇯 Fiji TV
🇫🇯 Mai TV
🇰🇮 Kiri One TV - Kiribati TV Station
🇫🇲 FSM Telecommunications TV
🇫🇲 Pohnpei PBC
🇳🇷 Nauru Media News - NTV
🇳🇨 Caledonia TV
🇳🇺 Broadcasting Corporation of Niue BCN
🇵🇼 Palau TV (PNCC)
🇵🇬 Click Pacific
🇵🇬 EMTV Online
🇵🇬 NBC TV - PNG
🇵🇬 TV Wan
🇼🇸 TV1 SAMOA
🇼🇸 EFKS - TV2
🇼🇸 TV3-Apia Broadcasting Ltd
🇼🇸 TV Wan
🇸🇧 SIBC News
🇸🇧 Tavuli News - Solomon Islands
🇸🇧 TTV
🇹🇻 Tuvalu TV
🇹🇴 TBC Tonga Broadcasting Commission
🇹🇴 TV Wan
🇻🇺 VBTC

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PASIFIKA TV:
📺 Pasifika TV channel via your local broadcaster
📺 Website via https://pasifikatv.co.nz/
📺 YouTube via https://youtube.com/?si=H4tmKn_er49yW3M6
📺 Socials via Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn

12/07/2025

Growing PCBL’s ohana in the North Pacific

Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) continues to evolve against the backdrop of a rapidly changing media landscape, and part of its growth is extending its ohana to include North Pacific.

Strategic Communications Manager at PCBL, Michelle Curran, recently travelled to Hawai’i to foster new partnerships with stakeholders including the New Zealand Consulate-General in Honolulu, 4 Mile Production LLC, Emerita Professor Ann Auman and Co-founder of Pacific Media Institute Floyd Takeuchi.

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Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) continues to evolve against the backdrop of a rapidly changing media landscape, and part of its growth is extending its ohana to include North Pacific. Strategic Communications Manager at PCBL, Michelle Curran, recently travelled to...

12/07/2025

Happy Independence Day Kiribati! 🇰🇮

Kiribati regained independence on the 12th July 1979 and the following are some facts you should know:
🇰🇮 Kiribati has a population of approx 133,000
🇰🇮 We are blessed to work with Kiri One TV aka Wave TV - Taotin Media
🇰🇮 Phoenix Islands, Kiribati is home to the world's largest marine protected area, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site
🇰🇮 Kiribati has the most coral atolls in the world, made up of 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba

Video of AKSI Kiribati Youth Group performing at the inaugural Pacific Education Ministers Fono in 2023 here in Aotearoa NZ hosted by New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(led by Pacific Connections - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Auckland) 🇳🇿
👏🔥

11/07/2025

Celebrating Solomon Islands! 🇸🇧❤️

https://www.facebook.com/share/16mrKLQ3WN/

08/07/2025

Te Fua o Vaka Lautala – “He vaka, he fonua, he tangata—The canoe, the land, the people—are one.”

“Te Fua” means “the foundation” or “origin.” The story of Te Fua o Vaka Lautala speaks to the deep roots, craftsmanship, and ancestral knowledge embedded in the building of the Vaka Lautala, a traditional canoe symbolizing unity, identity, and oceanic navigation.

Learn more via https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ArRnfiDfh/

Te Fua o Vaka Lautala – “He vaka, he fonua, he tangata—The canoe, the land, the people—are one.”

“Te Fua” means “the foundation” or “origin.” The story of Te Fua o Vaka Lautala speaks to the deep roots, craftsmanship, and ancestral knowledge embedded in the building of the Vaka Lautala, a traditional canoe symbolizing unity, identity, and oceanic navigation.

🛶 Origin and Meaning

Vaka Lautala is not just a canoe—it’s a vessel of heritage, resilience, and connection. The name “Lautala” carries layers of meaning, evoking the waves (lau) and the flowing branches or generations (tala), a poetic image of knowledge passed from one master builder to the next.

🪵The Builders - Keepers Knowledge

The canoe builders of Te Fua o Vaka Lautala are more than carpenters—they are cultural guardians, trained in the ancient ways of selecting wood, carving by hand, chanting sacred blessings, and aligning the canoe with the stars and winds.

Each canoe builder is chosen through genealogy and gifting—not only of skill, but of humility, patience, and spiritual connection to the sea. Their work is slow, deliberate, and filled with sacred protocols. From the first tree felled with prayer to the final lashings tied with coconut fiber, every act honors the ancestors.

🌊 The Legacy of Navigation

The vaka built by these artisans are not decorative—they are fully functional sea vessels, made to sail long distances. The building of Vaka Lautala continues the legacy of Lapita voyagers, the great ocean explorers who settled the vast Pacific using celestial navigation, wave reading, and deep spiritual knowledge.

🔥 The Revival and Rebirth

In January of 2025, The Fehoko Brothers - Isikeli & Sitiveni Fehoko (who descends from an ancestral lineage of canoe builders), started the Te Fua o Vaka Lautala project which has become part of a broader cultural revival movement. It is an effort to reconnect the younger generation with the old ways—to teach them that their history is not only in books, but in hands that shape, voices that chant, and waves that guide.

The canoe stands as a living classroom, a floating prayer, and a symbol of unity across islands, languages, and time.

Te Fua o Vaka Lautala is a story of grounding—grounding identity in knowledge, grounding people in purpose, and grounding a community in culture. Through the builders’ hands, the past is brought forward, and the future is set afloat.

We hope you all enjoyed the float today.
Ofa lahi atu ❤️🇹🇴

[Shout out to Sonia Fonua Koloa Jewellery for the photo used in this post]👏🏾

07/07/2025

BCN archives digitised; a valuable taoga for Niue 📼💛

Fakaaue lahi Broadcasting Corporation of Niue for the opportunity to digitise taoga, Niue stories. 🙏🏾

Two hundred and fifty (250) tapes and video cassettes from BCN archives from of video tapes over four decades have been digitized and this morning a small handover was held at the BCN office. Gener…

07/07/2025

Hapi Independence Dei Beautiful Solomon Islands! 🇸🇧

Solomon Islands regained its independence on the 7th July 1978 and the following are some of the facts you should know:
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands has the biggest coral in the world 🪸
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands has a population of approximately 735,000
🇸🇧 We work with Solomon Islands Broadcasters and Media: SIBC News, TTV and Tavuli News - Solomon Islands 📺
🇸🇧 Our Pasifika TV Content Manager, Tia Soakai is a child of Solomon Islands 💚

Tagio tumas Freddie Osifelo for letting us share your photos! 🙏❤

05/07/2025

Everyone loves an underdog, and Fiji choir Primanavia is winning hearts by sharing their remarkable story in a short documentary, Nothing Is Impossible: The Primanavia Story.

Produced by Young Productions in association with VideoFactory, the film will have its cinematic world premiere at the international, Oscar®-qualifying Doc Edge Film Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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By Michelle Curran Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV Everyone loves an underdog, and Fiji choir Primanavia is winning hearts by sharing their remarkable story in a short documentary, Nothing Is Impossible: The Primanavia Story. Produced by Young Productions in association with...

05/07/2025

Alii from beautiful Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games !! 🇵🇼❤️

Thanks to the generosity of the Australian Government, Australian Embassy - Palau we are able to bring you the 'Daily Highlights Programme' which marks a historical first, the very first programme to be broadcast regionally from Palau, delivering comprehensive coverage of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games. Vinaka vakalevu Paul Vunituraga! 🙏🏾

The 23 Pacific Nations competing at the Pacific Mini Games Palau are:
🇦🇸 American Samoa
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇰 Cook Islands
🇫🇲 Federated States of Micronesia
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇬🇺 Guam
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇳🇷 Nauru
🇳🇨 New Caledonia
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇫 Norfolk Island
🇲🇵 Northern Marianas
🇵🇼 Palau
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
🇼🇸 Samoa
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
🇵🇫 French Polynesia
🇹🇰 Tokelau
🇹🇴 Tonga
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
🇼🇫 Uvea mo Futuna

Photo credit .tv by Annice Lyn / ANOC or noted on individual photos 📸

You can watch the 2025 Pacific Mini Games daily highlights via Palau National Communications Corporation or your local television station as follows:
🇦🇸 KVZK TV
🇦🇸 PCS TV
🇨🇰 Araura TV
🇨🇰 CITV Cook Islands Television News
🇨🇰 Mangaia TV
🇨🇰 Vaka TV
🇫🇯 FBC
🇫🇯 Fiji TV
🇫🇯 Mai TV
🇰🇮 Kiri One TV
🇫🇲 FSM Telecommunications TV
🇫🇲 Pohnpei PBC
🇳🇷 Nauru TV
🇳🇨 Caledonia TV
🇳🇺 BCN (Niue)
🇵🇼 Palau TV (PNCC)
🇵🇬 Click Pacific
🇵🇬 EMTV
🇵🇬 NBC PNG
🇵🇬 TV Wan
🇼🇸 TV 1 Samoa
🇼🇸 EFKS - TV2
🇼🇸 Samoa TV3
🇼🇸 TV Wan
🇸🇧 SIBC
🇸🇧 Tavuli News
🇸🇧 TTV
🇹🇻 Tuvalu TV
🇹🇴 TBC Tonga Broadcasting Commission
🇹🇴 TV Wan
🇻🇺 VBTC

Please visit the official Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games platforms for more information:
🌐 Website https://www.palau2025pmg.com/
📲 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/1AkucvPooT/