Saturday, June 21, 2025

ASIA PACIFIC REPORTS

CLIMATE CHANGE

Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection
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By Laura Bergamo in Nice, France The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) concluded today with significant progress made towards the ratification of the High Seas Treaty...
The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific
Australia

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By Emma Page Greenpeace activists on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific, seizing almost 20...
A child victim of the Indonesian military raids in Sugapa district

Ponsonby post office shop

The Gambier Islands

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the NZ Parliament

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably
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COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. Two nuclear powers...
It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron

MULTIMEDIA

HUMAN RIGHTS

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,
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By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/producer Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark believes the Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, caused a crisis...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has suggested a double standard, saying he was "not privy to or consulted...
Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably

IDF soldiers in occupied Bethlehem

It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

INSTITUTIONS

A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,
Asia Report

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By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/producer Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark believes the Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, caused a crisis...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Asia Report

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By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has suggested a double standard, saying he was "not privy to or consulted...
Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably

IDF soldiers in occupied Bethlehem

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities

MEDIA

Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. Two nuclear powers...
Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities
Asia Report

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New...
Sacked FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

Justice For Palestine

Iranians hold posters of late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head Hossein Salami (left), and late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri (right), who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in recent days

NZ journalist Cole Martin

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

Ponsonby post office shop
Business

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By Aisha Campbell, RNZ News intern Ponsonby's post office is shutting shop next month despite push back from the local community. A sign on the storefront,...
A logging ship, Turubu Bay, East Sepik
Development

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RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act...
Fiji teachers from the Western Division at a training session at Ra High School

New Zealand is hurtling towards a sharply divided country of extreme wealth and extreme poverty

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity

Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue) addressing the UN Indigenous People's Forum last week

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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

Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection
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By Laura Bergamo in Nice, France The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) concluded today with significant progress made towards the ratification of the High Seas Treaty...
The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release
Analysis

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By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the...
The International Seabed Authority flag

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

A personal perspective on USAID as an organisation

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Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste
Asia Report

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Al Jazeera How global power struggles are impacting in local communities, culture and sovereignty in Kanaky, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. In episode one,...
The Encampments

A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids

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