Monthly Archives: June 2021

ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which...

RNZ Pacific Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday. The Health Ministry said...

COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup. My fortune-telling has been assisted...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Robin Hammond recently made a visit to the Wellington campus of Massey University to meet with his...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday. Health...

Otago University News Retired foundation director of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Kevin Clements has been awarded the International Studies Association’s...

SPECIAL REPORT: RNZ Pacific WARNING: This article contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing. Unexplained deaths spark sorcery claims, torture and murder, as fears...

Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Indonesia's most troubled province of Papua is become embroiled in another mass demonstration with protesters barricading provincial government buildings and...

RNZ Pacific Samoa's Supreme Court has ruled that the FAST party's swearing in at Parliament last month was illegal. But it has also ruled that Parliament...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby PNG Power Limited managing director Flagon Bekker resigned over the weekend citing family issues after serving the Papua New...

IndoLeft News The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) has warned the Papuan people not to trust that the TNI (Indonesian military) and...

Rappler reporters Filipinos honoured the late Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III by lighting buildings up in yellow, tying yellow ribbons around trees and lamp...

By Talebula Kate in Suva Six teenagers were among 56 people arrested by Fiji police in the past 24 hrs for failure to comply with...

RNZ News It will take a few more days before New Zealand can be said to have dodged a bullet over the latest covid-19 scare,...

By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has staged parallel protests outside the Chinese embassies in Paris and Berlin, holding funeral-style processions to denounce...

RNZ Pacific The Court of Appeal in Samoa says its ruling from June 2 on the sixth women's seat cannot be used to delay the...

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Hate speech will become a criminal offence in New Zealand and anyone convicted could face harsher punishment under...

By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Three more people with covid-19 have died in Fiji in the last 24 hours -- one of...

By Tsarina Maharani in Jakarta The initiator of the citizen-based reporting coalition Lapor Covid-19 (Report Covid-19), Ahmad Arif, says the Indonesian public is facing the...