Monthly Archives: September 2022

Small-grid renewable energy technologies and infrastructure

ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Globally, the...
RMI Parliament Speaker Kenneth Kedi

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...
Papua Governor Lukas Enembe

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...
NZ $20 bank notes

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...
Five men allegedly involved in the "barbaric" bushknife killing of PNG Ports chief Fego Kiniafa have been arrested

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...
A vaccination centre on Nukunonu, August 2021

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...
Facebook's "Great Algorithm Machine"

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...
An artist’s impression of the $100 million apartment for Manukau

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...
NZ soldiers in Fiji exercise

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...
Nicky Hager (left) with his publisher Robbie Burton

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...
The body of the latest victim of the Porgera killings

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...
Filipino President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr

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...
The Fiji Times on democracy

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...
Reverend Dr Benny Giay manhandled by Indonesian police

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...
New Zealand's French Pacific territories Consul-General Felicity Roxburgh

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...
The aftermath of a dawn raid yesterday in Eastern Highlands province 200922

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 Fego Kiniafa killed

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...
Flashback: PNG's "general" Julius Chan at the frontline

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...
Google has already done deals with some in NZ for its News Showcase

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...
Radio Djiido

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...
Martyred women in the Philippines

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...
Indonesia's Director of Immigration Supervision and Enforcement, I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram

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...