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Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged...

Asia Pacific Report Protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank targeted three business sites accused of being "complicit" in Aotearoa New...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist People on Guam are "disappointed" and "heartbroken" that radiation exposure compensation is not being extended to them, says the...

By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal Author David Robie and Little Island Press are about to publish next week a 40th anniversary...

Asia Pacific Report Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has called on countries to cut off all trade and financial...

Asia Pacific Report. In an unprecedented legal move in Aotearoa New Zealand, a national Palestine solidarity advocacy group has filed a referral against the prime...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents...

By Reinhard Minong in Port Moresby The Catholic Church has strongly warned against Papua New Guinea’s political rhetoric and push to declare the nation a...

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A Tongan cybersecurity expert says the country's health data hack is a "wake-up call" for the whole region. Siosaia...

ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during...

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The Micronesian Islands Forum cranks up with officials meetings this week in Majuro, with...

Asia Pacific Report The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji (NGOCHR) has called on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka as the new chair of the...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The Fiji government is spending big on this year's budget. The country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Biman...

RNZ Te Manu Korihi Tahiti will mark Matari'i as a national public holiday for the first time in November, following in the footsteps of Matariki...

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of...

By Bryan Manabat in Saipan Advocacy groups in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) disrupted the US Department of Defense's public meeting this...

COMMENTARY: By Ahmad Ibsais On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs. The attack was not in response to a...

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle Setting aside any thoughts I may have about theocratic rulers (whether they be in Tel Aviv or Tehran), I am personally...

RNZ Pacific The leaders of Bougainville and Papua New Guinea have signed a deal that may bring the autonomous region's quest for independence closer. Called "Melanesian...

By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer -- 30' with Guyon Espiner The former head of Human Rights Watch -- and son of a Holocaust survivor...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence movement leader has warned the Melanesian Spearhead Group after its 23rd leaders summit in Suva, Fiji, to not...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Amid uncertainty in the Middle East, one thing remains clear -- most Pacific governments continue to align themselves with...