Yearly Archives: 2022
Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News
Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can...
Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
Censoring of Facebook in Papua New Guinea can be addressed by three mandated government agencies, says Chief Censor Jim...
Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February
RNZ News
New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...
Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications
This video shares the ham radio communication efforts for disaster relief after the Hungas twin eruotions in Tonga on January 15. Video: Ham...
Cartoons: Malcolm Evans – World condemns apartheid state
PSNA welcomes Amnesty International declaration of Israel as an apartheid state
Three new covid-19 cases in Tonga as kingdom enters lockdown
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number...
NZ shortens vaccine booster interval to 3 months for omicron ‘head start’
RNZ News
New Zealand is shortening the gap between second and third doses of the covid-19 vaccine from four months to three, the government has...
Most challenging phase of omicron outbreak yet to come, but New Zealand may be...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury
Within a month of the first community...
Tonga to enter lockdown after port workers test positive for covid-19
RNZ Pacific
The kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm tonight.
Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni and Minister of Health...
Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ
RNZ News
Pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis says her re-activated emergency MIQ application has been approved, and she will return to New Zealand in March.
Deputy Prime...
Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan
OPEN LETTER: A reply to New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis from Afghanistani mother and former broadcaster Muzhgan Samarqandi
My name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I...
Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A global Papuan students abroad umbrella organisation has appealed for a meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to air their grievances...
Vanuatu back in UN ‘good books’ – pays fees, regains voting rights
By Anita Roberts and Kizzy Kalsakau in Port Vila
Vanuatu has now regained its United Nations voting rights after recently being denied the right over...
PNG interim restraining order over eviction of homeless Morata settlers
PNG Post-Courier
Papua's Guinea's National Court has issued an interim restraining order stopping the planned eviction of thousands of Morata settlers on portion 2733 in...
Indonesia denies claims by Papuan students over education setback
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Indonesian government has denied claims by an umbrella group representing Papuan students on scholarships abroad that it is “assassinating” the...
Amnesty seeks tighter control of palm oil industry after ‘human cage’ finding
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Amnesty International Indonesia is urging the government -- and the police in particular -- to tighten supervision of the palm oil...
Fiji plans grassroots habits education to help target NCDs, says Fong
By Luke Rawalai in Suva
Changing daily habits will be the difficult issue to address when creating awareness in Fiji against non-communicable disease (NCDs), says...
Pacific health provider faces covid-19 fatigue within community
By Sri Krishnamurthi, RNZ Pacific digital journalist
South Seas Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola says people are tired of covid-19 rather than complacent...
Covid-19: NZ’s MIQ working but has tough trade-offs, says epidemiologist
RNZ News
A leading epidemiologist says New Zealand's managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) is serving its purpose.
The system has come under increasing criticism recently as...
Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist
Concern is growing around low covid-19 vaccine rates in the Pacific.
People in developing nations are generally missing out due...
Boosting Pacific digital media skills amid a cyclone – all part of the job
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Betz in Ninole, Hawai'i
As Cyclone Cody got set to pummel Fiji in early January, students at the University of the...
PM Jacinda Ardern isolating after becoming close contact of covid case
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is self-isolating after being deemed a close contact of a positive covid case.
She was on the same...