Yearly Archives: 2022

RNZ News Assistant Commissioner Bruce O'Brien says police are working hard to understand and identify the origin of the threats being made to schools around...

RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission CIVEN says that last year it paid out US$16.6 million to victims of France's nuclear weapons tests. France tested...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Sheriff Security at the Waigani Supreme and National Court have stepped up their surveillance of the court premises following this...

By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby After 36 hours of unrest, fear and anxiety, Port Moresby city woke up yesterday morning to a quiet start...

The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to...

RNZ News TVNZ's head of news and current affairs, Paul Yurisich, has resigned after a review into the hiring of presenter Kamahl Santamaria. TVNZ released its...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home. The general manager...

RNZ News Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon says there are more important issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand than the controversy over a party social...

RNZ Pacific A Fiji political leader is calling out the Australian and New Zealand governments on their "deafening silence" over human rights issues in the...

Inside PNG News Papua New Guinea's Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, today accepted Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai's recommendation to extend the date for the 2022 general...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...