Monthly Archives: July 2022

Caretaker Prime Minister James Marape

By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby National Capital District Metropolitan Police Superintendent Gideon Ikumu has ruled out a proposal to impose a curfew in the...
Port Moresby Governor Powes Parkop (left)

RNZ Pacific The Commonwealth group that has been observing the Papua New Guinea national elections has called for an urgent review of the electoral process. The...

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Tumon, Guam Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has expressed support for the Federated States of Micronesia’s move to oppose China’s proposed...
Covid-19 and tolerance

ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University The covid-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the...
Papua New Guinea Defence Force troops out on the streets of the capital Port Moresby in support of the police

Inside PNG News National Capital Dictrict (NCD) police have arrested 18 suspects following the slasher attacks on civilians yesterday outside Papua New Guinea's national elections...
K’aute Pasifika's Mareta Matenga

By Aden Miles Morunga, Local Democracy Reporter “It’s exciting to know that I am involved in making history and that my contribution will leave a...
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By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Running like a pack of animals, a group of political party supporters in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby...
President of the Congress of New Caledonia Roch Wamytan

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...
A screenshot of the Waigani attack 240722

EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Philippine police inspect the assassination crime scene at the Ateneo de Manila University

By Jairo Bolledo in Manila A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City,...
NZ's outgoing Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield

RNZ News After leading the Aotearoa New Zealand's covid-19 response for the last two years, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is stepping down from the role of...
Professor Pal Ahluwalia

By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji's Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is "doing damage" to the premier regional university by withholding the Fiji government’s obligatory contribution,...
Dr Siouxsie Wiles

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up...
An image from the cover of the new West Papua report

By Victor Mambor and Alvin Prasetyo in Jayapura The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is warning in a new report that mass killings of civilians could...
President-elect Nikenike Vurobaravu of Vanuatu

RNZ Pacific Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of the Republic of Vanuatu. It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College...
Green Party co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens' leadership by...
Te Maruata chair Bonita Bigham

By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter A district mayor says the Aotearoa New Zealand local government sector is ready to launch into a future that...
Porgera valley villagers

By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier “It’s okay, we'll just sit here and they can come kill us.” These chilling words are from a defenceless...
Fiji Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem

By Wanshika Kumar in Suva Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem has called on local media to upskill their overseas counterparts in the wake of...
Bodies of papuan civilians being evacuated after an attack 160722

By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...
How the PNG Post-Courier reported the Engan massacre today 210722

By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...
Pacific Islands Forum 2022 in Suva

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting has ended and what is intriguing is the deafening silence on declining...