Monthly Archives: April 2022

RNZ News A New Zealand aid worker in Kyiv says the ReliefAid group he leads was one of the first to provide food in the...

ANALYSIS: By Richie Poulton, University of Otago; Avshalom Caspi, Duke University, and Terrie Moffitt, Duke University Most people welcomed the opportunity to get vaccinated against...

COMMENTARY: By Pacific Island Times publisher Mar-Vic Cagurangan I remember that day — February 25, 1986. I was then a teenager. My family stood outside...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter As the French Pacific is gearing up for Sunday's first round of the French presidential election, incumbent President Emmanuel...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand's outgoing Director of Public Health says the quick sharing of scientific information and the widespread use of masks have both...

By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby Vodafone has made its entry back into the Papua New Guinea market as Digitec-Vodafone to operate as the third...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Health workers in Aotearoa New Zealand are thanking Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield for his work stopping...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The discovery of many civilian bodies lying dead in the Ukrainian city of Bucha this week has brought out more Western...

By Stephen Forbes, Local Democracy reporter A leading epidemiologist says Aotearoa New Zealand has no idea how many community cases of covid-19 there are in...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield -- the man who has tirelessly steered the country's covid-19 pandemic response for the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's general election will go ahead as planned in June with CCTV (closed circuit television) to monitor...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says it will not give up on the gains made in terms of decolonisation from France under the...

RNZ News Deeper and and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit the worst effects of global warming, a climate scientist...

By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea A few shops and buildings in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands provincial capital Mt Hagen have...

ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau in Honiara It has been an interesting couple of weeks for Solomon Islands, with stories of policing, weapons, replica weapons and...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Ahead of national elections in the Philippines next month, the state has stepped up its attacks on Nobel Peave laureate Maria...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at the red covid-19 traffic light setting, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern made the announcement at today's post-cabinet...

By Clarissa Moi in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National Court has sent a strong message and warning to those accused of sorcery-related violence when...

RNZ Pacific The first female premier of a Solomon Islands province is appealing to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to help her country manage...

By Joyce McClure of Pacific Island Times Yap State Governor Jesse Salalu has declared a state of emergency over a mass resignation of 40 doctors...

Tagata Pasifika is celebrating 35 years on air this year. Former hosts Foufou Susana Hukui, Reverend Elder Maligi Evile and former researcher/reporter Iulia Leilua...

RNZ Pacific A roundup today of the covid-19 pandemic status around the Pacific. Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has announced that Nauru has recorded its first two covid-19...