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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...
South Tarawa in Kiribati
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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...
Nuclear refugees from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands being evacuated on board the Rainbow Warrior to Mejatto island in May 1985

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
Decolonisation

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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...
"Trump’s ceasefire is a political theatre of control"
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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...
Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village

Climate adaptation

"The Palestinian genocide victims were of scant concern at the Knesset spectacle"

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed five complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli crimes against journalists, has called for justice

INSTITUTIONS

"Trump’s ceasefire is a political theatre of control"
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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...
Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village
Decolonisation

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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,...
His widow Miriam continued her husband’s legacy

Climate adaptation

"The Palestinian genocide victims were of scant concern at the Knesset spectacle"

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed five complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli crimes against journalists, has called for justice

MEDIA

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed five complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli crimes against journalists, has called for justice
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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...
Matangi Tonga publisher Pesi Siale Fonua
Media

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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...
What would Alfred Nobel have said?

Lebanese-Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf speaks

MediaQuest corporate communications consultant Ramon Isberto

Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?

SPORTS

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
Asia Report

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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...
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

Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Democracy

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

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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,...
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

Ponsonby post office shop

A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik

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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

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice
Climate

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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...
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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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...
China's BeiDou communications satellite

Since the data breach, the Tongan government has said "a small amount" of information from the attack was published online. This included confidential information,

Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection

LATEST REVIEWS

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
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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...
The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning

Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste

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