ASIA PACIFIC REPORTS

CLIMATE CHANGE

RNZ Pacific Pacific leaders believe climate experts are missing an opportunity to incorporate indigenous knowledge into adaptation measures. The call has been made as hundreds of...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Amnesty International is asking the New Zealand government to create a new humanitarian visa for Pacific people impacted by...

HUMAN RIGHTS

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A controversial piece of legislation to postpone the date for New Caledonia's crucial provincial elections passed...

ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing...

INSTITUTIONS

ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing...

Asia Pacific Report Indonesian military forces have again bombed Kiwirok, the site of a massacre in 2021 that killed more than 300 West Papuan civilians,...

MEDIA

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch supports the call by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for justice for the victims...

RNZ Pacific Pesi Siale Fonua, a veteran Pacific journalist and the publisher-editor of Tonga's leading news website Matangi Tonga Online, has died at the age...

SPORTS

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...

Asia Pacific Report A decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority to uphold a complaint against a 1News broadcast last November is a warning to news...

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has hinted that the country may "hold its first-ever referendum" following a landmark...

By Elena Vucukula in Suva The main problem in for Fiji retirement is that there is no law to protect the Fiji National Provident Fund,...



ARTS & PERFORMANCE

PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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.

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

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

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

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court...

Last week, the UN's highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and provide restitution for...

LATEST REVIEWS

REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General...