Yearly Archives: 2021

Kanak flag

By RNZ News The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week's change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to...
Covid mutations

ANALYSIS: By David Welch, University of Auckland; Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago; Joep de Ligt, ESR, and Nigel French, Massey University New variants of SARS-CoV-2...
NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lashed out at Australia for dumping responsibility for a woman and two young children detained at the...
Nonu Tuisamoa

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Nervous Papatoetoe High School students were lining up today in big numbers to get tested, saying they want...
Pastor Yeremia Zanambani

By Devina Halim in Jakarta The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was killed in Intan Jaya, Papua, on September 19 last year has agreed...
Ema Siopevideo

Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...
Ro Filipe Tuisawau

By Luke Rawalai in Suva Opposition parliamentarian Ro Filipe Tuisawau claims University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor Winston Thompson and audit and risk committee deputy...
Prof Michael Baker

By RNZ News The exact source of Auckland community cases of covid-19 in the latest New Zealand outbreak is the "big unknown" and there could...
Pal Ahluwalia Open DevPolicy 680wide

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in  Suva The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal...
Akosita Tamanisau and Dr Robbie Robertson

REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Ghost demonstrators

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a proposed cyber-security law in Myanmar that would organise online censorship and force social media...
Papuan students

By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Indigenous Papuan students who are currently studying in New Zealand and Australia have formed an educational association, choosing Waitangi Day...
Cans collecting

COMMENT: By Laurens Ikinia The above photo is an image of how I grew up in Papua. But before I share my story, I would like...
Dr Uke Kombra

By Jina Amba in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra says 620 elementary school teachers have been deregistered after it was...
Samoa PM Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi

By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa's prime minister has gone public with his desire to "rehouse" the University of the South Pacific (USP) in...
Professor Pal Ahluwalia 110221

By RNZ Pacific The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific says booming student enrolments are a vote of confidence in the regional...
Quake map 110221

By RNZ News A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south-east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands and a tsunnami warning is in place for several countries. Geoscience...
Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The deportation of academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia last week is alarming and highlights the restrictive environment for freedom of expression in...
University of the South Pacific

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk University of the South Pacific staff unions and students have protested in "disgust" over what they call interference and unsolicited presence...
Benny Wenda Sky

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia is trying again to "divide and rule my people" by further carving Papua into three new provinces, warns interim president...
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi

By RNZ News New Zealand's parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie...
USP laucala campus

By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva There is no saga at the University of the South Pacific, claims Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. “There is no saga, there...