Friday, January 30, 2026

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American Samoa

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By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Pacific delegates in the United States Congress are warning efforts to fast-track deep-seabed mining...
The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena
Analysis

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ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The logbook of presidential flights in Indonesia reveals an unusual pattern -- from the Merdeka Palace to the Land...
Drone footage of Atafu, a low-lying motu of Tokelau

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

SPREP’s Director-General Sefanaia Nawadra

China's ambassador to Samoa Fei Mingxing (left) hands over a ceremonial cheque for US$200,000 to SPREP director of legal services and governing bodies Aumua Clark Peteru in Apia

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Nadi, Fiji
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Ro Naulu Mataitini An invitation from a distant warzone landed in Suva earlier this month. The United States, with Israel’s endorsement, has asked...
The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs Chairman Ratu Viliame Seruvakula and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

"It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarised police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability"

US President Donald Trump

"Fiji’s peacekeepers have historically operated where communities accepted their role"

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HUMAN RIGHTS

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform
Asia Report

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By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Nadi, Fiji
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Ro Naulu Mataitini An invitation from a distant warzone landed in Suva earlier this month. The United States, with Israel’s endorsement, has asked...
Invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog (inset)

Researcher Dr Sanimere Boladuadua

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal

The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena

INSTITUTIONS

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform
Asia Report

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By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Nadi, Fiji
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Ro Naulu Mataitini An invitation from a distant warzone landed in Suva earlier this month. The United States, with Israel’s endorsement, has asked...

Invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog (inset)

Toasting the Jewish New Year with IDF lone soldiers

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal

MEDIA

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform
Asia Report

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By Agnese Boffano in London As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the...
Asia Report

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COMMENTARY: By Viet Thanh Nguyen Is this the IDF in Gaza or the West Bank, or the US military in Afghanistan or Iraq, or ICE...
Israeli influencer Sammy Yahood

"It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarised police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability"

Samoan author and playwright Papali'i Sia Figiel

US President Donald Trump

SPORTS

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston
Global

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By Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter There has been mixed reaction in parts of New Zealand's red-and-black country -- Canterbury -- following the shock axing...
Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua
Civil Society

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By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope

An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts
Democracy

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By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's 2026 National Budget has drawn immediate opposition criticism from East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, who...
NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for "dog-whistling to her...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

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PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

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RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
Pacific Prana

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Asia Pacific Report An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

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RNZ Pacific The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga
Cook Islands

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By Caleb Fotheringham and Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalists Not enough is yet known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start...
Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences
Decolonisation

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By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their...
Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge

China's BeiDou communications satellite

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