Monthly Archives: September 2021

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Questions have been raised about why the head of Fiji's Bureau of Statistics was fired by the Bainimarama government...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday,...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A West Papuan group seeking self-determination has greeted Papua New Guinea on its 46th anniversary of independence, predicting that one day...

By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new...

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks prompted the US to invade Afghanistan, the Taliban announced they have taken the...

RNZ News Three more covid-19 deaths have been recorded in New Caledonia eight days after it was plunged sharply into the pandemic. Official government figures as...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand's largest and most influential newspaper has warned the country against "lockdown fatigue" as the major city Auckland entered its...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji's opposition Social Democratic Liberal Party is calling on the government to boost its covid-19 vaccination programmes in the...

RNZ Pacific Five months after Samoa's April 9 general election the FAST party government finally began its first parliamentary session today. But it was without the...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A mural on the eastern side of the Wirobrajan intersection in Central Java city of Yogyakarta was covered over with black...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 15 new cases of covid-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health has announced. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health...

COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives? Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its...

RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an...

COMMENTARY: By Jason Brown in Auckland Twenty years ago, I was on a plane from Rarotonga to Auckland. Lovely flight, with a path at the...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to...

By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Nauru president Lionel Aingimea has accused Fiji of being "divisive" over its refusal to pay its share of funding for...

RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000...

This Tonga Language Week, Pacific Media Network asked several people how they are celebrating being Tongan. PMN news journalist Khalia Strong shares her story. “Grandma,...

By Rahmad Nasution in Jayapura More than a week after four Indonesian soldiers were killed by pro-independence fighters in an attack on a military post...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Ewart on Pacific Beat There was much excitement on the campuses of the University of the South Pacific when the latest Times...