Yearly Archives: 2021
Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to Kanaks
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...
Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year into the covid-19...
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...
Ardern slams Australia for dumping over Turkey ‘terrorist’ detainees
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...
Papatoetoe High students line up for pop-up tests in NZ covid outbreak
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...
Family of Papuan pastor killed by TNI agrees to autopsy, with conditions
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...
Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...
Tuisawau claims Fiji pro-chancellor blocked USP audit probe
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...
NZ’s covid-19 community cases: Source of infection ‘big unknown’
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...
The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and NZ still stand...
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...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional education at USP
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...
Myanmar’s junta plans draconian cyber-security law to stifle dissent
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...
Papuans choose NZ’s Waitangi Day to launch new Oceania student group
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...
Laurens Ikinia: Trash cans and study, a short story of Papuan prayer and hope
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...
PNG clamps down on ‘cheating teachers’ – 620 deregistered
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 goes public with bid for USP to move headquarters from Fiji
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...
Deportation a ‘distraction’ from USP’s boom performance, says Ahluwalia
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...
Tsunami warning after 7.7 quake off New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands
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...
Deportation of USP head ‘boosts chilling effect’ on Fiji free speech
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...
USP staff, student unions protest over Fiji police ‘attack’ on campus safety
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...
Reject Jakarta’s ‘divide and rule’ Papua provinces strategy, warns Wenda
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...
Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament
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...
‘No crisis at USP,’ says Sayed-Khaiyum – ‘Untrue’, says Ro Teimumu
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...