Yearly Archives: 2018

A report on innovative solar energy technology for the Pacific. Video: NZIPR By Sri Krishnamurthi with Peter Wilson in Auckland Solar-powered batteries are the key to...

David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia several times during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media,...

Key dates in New Caledonia's colonial history: 1774: James Cook “discovers” Grande Terre island for Europe and renames it New Caledonia because the landscapes remind...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A public broadcasting advocacy group has condemned Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s plan to commercialise Pacific broadcasting as not being able...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Fiji women's coalition has praised the confirmation of 56 female candidates for the 2018 Fiji national elections next week, but...

David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media, returned to...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk About 100 journalists covered the historic New Caledonian independence referendum last weekend, with media from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and...

By RNZ Pacific A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause. Tutugoro, second...

By David Robie in Nouméa French security forces moved in today to clean up the main road near an indigenous Kanak tribal area after a...

By Kaelyn Dekarube in Suva As part of their coverage of the 2018 Fiji general election this month, University of the South Pacific student journalists...

By Stefan Armbruster in Noumea New Caledonia, a group of picturesque islands in Melanesia that are the closest neighbour to Australia and New Zealand, have...

Long-term New Caledonian residents and indigenous Kanaks will vote on the future of their Pacific territory this Sunday—a status quo French-ruled New Caledonia, or...

By Dian Septiari in Jakarta The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on Indonesia's Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is polling highly in the latest pre-election poll in Fiji. But two weeks out from the election, the...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition has continued to attack the French government and judiciary for removing its leader Oscar Temaru from the Territorial...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea has been placed as one of Indonesia’s top non-traditional market priorities as the country leader President Joko Widodo...

COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide In Lae City, Papua New Guinea's second-largest city, there are seven urban clinics, each serving between 100 and 150 patients a...

Caledonia TV's report on the recent indigenous Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) conference on a "post-independence" future for New Caledonia. Video: NCI TV...

RNZ's Insight visits Papua New Guinea, which is due to host an APEC Leaders Summit next month. Video: RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea is about...

By Kalino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News   Tonga's Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva says he believes an appeal by Tongasat against a Supreme Court ruling over...

By Mereoni Mili in Suva Meeting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in person was a humbling experience this week for specially selected students from...

By Litia Cava in Suva Former Prime Minister and Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka is now sure to contest the 2018 general...