Yearly Archives: 2021

ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”. This means a generation growing up...

By Rohit Deo in Suva Fiji health authorities report that there are currently 204 covid-19 patients admitted at the country's hospitals. According to the Ministry of...

By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter An Australian criminologist who deemed the New Zealand shopping mall attacker "low risk" in 2018 believes there were missed...

The mother of Auckland's LynnMall shopping mall terror attacker in New Zealand says he was brainwashed by neighbours from the Middle East. Ahamed Aathill Mohamed...

RNZ News New Zealand reported 20 new community cases of covid-19 today, according to the Ministry of Health. Speaking at today's government briefing, Director-General of Health...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinean chief executives believe the country's entire workforce needs to be vaccinated against covid-19 to be fully productive, says...

By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an attack at Auckland's New Lynn Countdown supermarket today was a terrorist attack carried out by...

By Assumpta Buchanan in Honiara A high school student is one of three people -- including his two brothers -- who has been sentenced to...

By Hengky Yeimo in Jayapura Papuan activist Victor Yeimo has been receiving medical treatment in hospital following a police crackdown on a protest in the...

RNZ Pacific Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has sacked the Attorney-General, Savalenoa Mareva Betham Annandale, effective immediately. The government suspended the Attorney-General and the Clerk...

RNZ Pacific Pacific health providers say a major New Zealand government funding boost is not just a recognition of the critical role they play in...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk President Lionel Aingimea of Nauru has praised the University of the South Pacific for becoming ranked among the world's top 10...

RNZ News A man with covid-19 who allegedly escaped an Auckland MIQ facility today has been charged with breaking lockdown rules and has been bailed...

By Marcheilla Ariesta in Jakarta Indonesia, the world's fourth largest country by population with 270 million, has not yet determined its stance towards the Taliban...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Fijian Media Association president Stanley Simpson says a journalist who asked Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to respond to comments made against...

RNZ Pacific Eight more people have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll past 500. The Fiji government also confirmed 290 new cases for...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Former Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma has also joined activists and Victor Yeimo's family along with Yeimo's lawyer who protested at...

By Nita Blake-Persen, RNZ News Checkpoint reporter A former Air New Zealand flight attendant who is now at the frontlines of Auckland's covid vaccination...

New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis asks a key question about women's rights in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover during spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid's first media...

COMMENTARY: By Trevor Richards Apologies have been in the news recently. Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron told "French" Polynesia (Ma'ohi Nui) that French nuclear testing...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton The military’s brutality is a daily reality for all the people of Myanmar. As Myanmar’s army prepares to deploy and...