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Duty reporter/editor of the Asia Pacific Report/Evening Report collaboration or the Pacific Media Centre at the Auckland University of Technology. Feedback: Email the editor

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A new look Regional Fisheries Ministers (RFMM) group met for the first time virtually last week to discuss the state of...

Who is Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the man at the centre of the long-running controversy at the University of the South Pacific? On Tuesday last...

Pacific Media Watch After three days of protests by hundreds of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific over the treatment...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has denied a claim that he has fled the country to avoid being arrested. This...

By RNZ Pacific An Indonesian lawyer being pursued by the state has won a human rights award for shining "a light on violations of the...

By RNZ Pacific A Solomon Islands province has agreed to lease a large island to a Chinese developer to develop into a special economic zone,...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Young Pasifika performers and artists came together last week for Moana Loloto, a night of indigenous storytelling to explore four pressing...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Filipino human rights lawyer has come away uninjured after unidentified motorcyclists fired gunshots into her car on the central Philippines...

By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific For 74-year-old Teaga Esekia, a chief from the Tuvalu island of Vaitupu, the ocean is a lifeblood. "Tuvaluans, they have...

By RNZ Pacific Vanuatu and Solomon Islands have raised the issue of human rights abuses against West Papuans at the UN Human Rights Council in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of...

By RNZ Pacific Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has said she "regrets and strongly condemns" the Solomon Islands' decision to establish diplomatic relations with China. The Solomons...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila Earlier this week staff and students of the University of the South Pacific received a summary of an independent...

By RNZ Pacific A Fiji opposition MP has been suspended from parliament for six months for refusing to apologise to the Prime Minister. Pio Tikoduadua and...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The New Caledonian-based Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front or FLNKS has condemned the ongoing human rights violations in West Papua...

By RNZ Pacific The University of the South Pacific has said it will implement the recommendations of the independent investigator looking into allegations of mismanagement...

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane On November 23 this year, Bougainvilleans will vote in a referendum to decide whether they wish to stay part of Papua...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly "fierce" Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter...

By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific There was a frenetic energy outside the Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Centre on Sunday, where the finishing touches were...

By RNZ Pacific Indigenous Pacific knowledge should inform the science to save the world's oceans. That was the consensus among Pacific ocean scientists and other regional...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister has asked China to enter into a free trade agreement with his country, and for in help...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Human rights violations in West Papua are to be given priority at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tuvalu next week. According...