Yearly Archives: 2022
Three US Army personnel test positive for covid at Marshall Islands border
By Giff Johnson, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The US Army ignored agreed-to covid prevention rules for entry into the Marshall Islands this week and...
Otago University covid-19 experts copping abuse from anti-vaxxers
By Hamish MacLean in Dunedin
University of Otago covid-19 experts are not immune to the increasingly vitriolic attacks dished out to scientists commenting on New...
Fiji braces for pandemic third wave as omicron cases found in community
By Josefa Babitu in Suva
Fiji is bracing for a third wave of the covid-19 virus after tests have confirmed the presence of the omicron...
NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Justice and peace advocates in New Zealand have strongly criticised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "horrific crackdown" on community leaders, activists, and...
Fiji parents warned about sick children in back-to-school catch-up
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji parents are advised not to send their children to school today if they are not feeling well as the...
The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby
In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday...
Gordon Campbell: Fostering the Kiwi culture of covid complaint media
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell in Wellington
Success can be its own worst enemy. If the plane doesn’t crash or the ship doesn’t sink, that doesn’t...
Pasifika reach 90% vaccinated: ‘Keep going’ urges medical academic
RNZ Pacific
Pacific Island New Zealanders are now 90 percent fully vaccinated against covid-19, and a public health expert is urging them to keep up...
‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in Auckland
The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages...
Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over audit inquiry
By Luke Nacei in Suva
National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has asked if the Fiji government inquiry into the Office of the Auditor-General...