Monthly Archives: September 2022
Small communities could be buying, selling and saving money on electric power right now...
ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Globally, the...
Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear legacy plan
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
On the eve of the US Pacific Islands Summit in Washington, a...
Fate of Papua’s Governor Enembe – the ‘son of Koteka’ – lies in balance...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Alleged corruption involving Governor Lukas Enembe has dominated both Papuan and Indonesian media outlets and social media groups over the...
Petition calls for monarchy to be replaced on New Zealand money
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
A Wellington tauira (scholar) has launched a petition calling for Aotearoa New Zealand's Reserve Bank to replace the...
5 suspects arrested as probe continues into killing of PNG Ports chief
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police have arrested five men in Goroka over their alleged involvement in the killing of PNG...
Tunoa – house arrest – on Tokelau family ends after more than a year
RNZ Pacific
The Taupulega, or council, on the Tokelau atoll of Nukunonu, has lifted a house arrest order on a family which had refused to...
Michael Field: Freedom at midday – stories from Facebook prison
COMMENTARY: By Michael Field
Just the other day a robot guard came along a corridor in a special digital prison, consulted his flatscreen embedded on...
$100m apartment complex coming to Manukau – but you’ll have to be 55 to...
By Stephen Forbes of Local Government Reporting
A new $100 million apartment complex is coming to Manukau -- Auckland's heart of Pacific communities.
But you'll have...
Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’
RNZ Pacific
Mortar demonstrations involving military forces from five nations have taken place in Fiji.
The tactical field training exercise called Exercise Cartwheel was a US...
A publisher writes on ‘the terror’ of publishing Nicky Hager
BOOK EXTRACT: By Robbie Burton
In the mid-1990s I started working with New Zealand investigative writer Nicky Hager. I have had the most singular of...
Slaughter goes on in Porgera mining town as PNG police plan new task force
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
While Papua New Guinean policing continues to be an issue in Porgera, Enga Province, the killings continue in the...
Not over: Young generations wage fight to protect Martial Law memories
Jairo Bolledo in Manila
Karl Patrick Suyat, 19, has no personal experience of the tyrannical rule of late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos. But memories of...
Fiji Times: Valuing democracy amid shrinking global civic spaces
EDITORIAL: By Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
Democracy! We may differ in how we understand and value democracy. But what is the essence of democracy?
On...
Benny Giay: The reality behind West Papua’s ‘land of peace’ facade
OPEN LETTER: By Reverend Dr Benny Giay
The notion that Papua is the "Land of Peace" has no substance.
Many feel that this phrase "Papua Tanah...
NZ consul hails long-standing ties with New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
The Consul-General of New Zealand for the French Pacific territories, Felicity Roxburgh, says New Zealand's presence in New Caledonia is historical.
She said she...
Tense Goroka town under lockdown after brutal slaying of PNG Ports chief
PNG Post-Courier
Goroka town is under lockdown and remains tense as Papua New Guinea police mount a heavy presence following the brutal slaying of the...
PNG Ports chief executive killed in Highlands fight
RNZ Pacific
State-owned PNG Ports chief executive officer Fego Kiniafa has been killed at Nagamiufa in Goroka of Eastern Highlands Province, says Papua New Guinea's...
PNG’s Sir Julius: ‘I shed tears of joy and sadness – for a new...
PNG Post-Courier
The tears came freely as the birth of the new nation of Papua New Guinea was heralded by a new flag -- the...
Global tech titans under growing NZ pressure to pay for news
RNZ News
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
There is mounting pressure on tech titans Google and Facebook to pay local news media to carry their...
Pacific radio stations unite to boost use of Indigenous languages
RNZ Pacific
Two radio stations linked to the French Pacific's decolonisation movements want to co-operate to lift the use of indigenous languages.
The heads of Radio...
Martial law brutality in ‘educational’ musical drama Katips touches raw nerve in NZ
REVIEW: By David Robie
Seven weeks ago the Philippines truth-telling martial law film Katips was basking in the limelight in the country’s national FAMAS academy...
Jakarta bans Papuan governor Enembe from vital medical treatment trip
SPECIAL REPORT: By Laurens Ikinia
Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has been banned from travelling abroad by the state Directorate General...