Monthly Archives: August 2022

By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva It was the friendliness of Fijians that led educator Hiroshi Taniguchi to give up his Japanese citizenship and make Fiji...

RNZ Pacific The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia's...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country's Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term. President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed...

RNZ Pacific A former president of Kiribati warns the crisis involving the island nation's government and the courts has left the country with a "dysfunctional...

By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby A Leadership Tribunal has been appointed in Papua New Guinea to enquire into allegations of misconduct against the Member...

RNZ News Hundreds of people in Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island spent the night out of their homes and a state of emergency...

ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University and Emily Millane, The University of Melbourne The go-to defence of pretty much everyone who is entangled in...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent One year on from Aotearoa New Zealand's longest covid-19 lockdown, an epidemiologist says further lockdowns cannot be ruled...

By Koroi Hawkins and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists, with reporting and photography from RNZ correspondent Hilaire Bule in Port Vila The Vanuatu Prime Minister...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The last 10 days has seen the entire media focus (aside from the ubiquitous concern for the All Black prospects in...

By Geraldine Panapasa, editor-in-chief of Wansolwara News Media partnerships are an important part of the region’s journey and narrative as a Pacific family, says Vanuatu’s...

COMMENTARY: By Paul Wolffram It was at the end of a long day of walking back and forth over the dusty roads of Goroka town...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand's ruling Labour's caucus has unanimously decided to suspend Hamilton West MP Dr Gaurav Sharma effective immediately in the wake of...

RNZ News Domestic flights have been cancelled again in New Caledonia as a conflict between Air Calédonie and the workers' union USTKE continues. The carrier decided...

By Thierry Lepani of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's longest serving politician and oldest member of Parliament is already getting things...

RNZ Pacific The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the covid outbreak in the Marshall Islands a Public Health Emergency. A total of 571 new omicron...

PNG Post-Courier Two days after being elected as Prime Minister again in Papua New Guinea, James Marape took his first official trip as the country's...

By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The Marshall Islands is a live demonstration that the omicron BA.5 variant...

By Philip Cass of Kaniva News in Auckland Tonga has not done enough to combat people trafficking and will remain on an American watch list,...

COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Sixty years ago today -- on 15 August 1962 -- the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Papuan student advocacy group has called for the establishment of a future Aotearoa New Zealand scholarship for West Papuans to...

By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guineans will be consulted on key constitutional questions...