Monthly Archives: July 2023

Colonia, the capital of the state of Yap

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ journalist A new report has found practical solutions to address climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), including raising...
Suva lawyer Richard Naidu

By Rashika Kumar in Suva Suva lawyer Richard Naidu is a free man after the Suva High Court ruled this week that no conviction be...
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama

By Rakesh Kumar in Suva The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has labelled comments made by former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama this week to media workers...
Police officers in high-vis vests have today re-entered the high-rise Auckland central building

RNZ News A scene examination is continuing at a construction site in central Auckland after a fatal shooting there shocked the city yesterday morning. The gunman,...
Author Antony Loewenstein speaking about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory, in Auckland last night

Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...
Matu Tangi Matua Reid

By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland...
Armed New Zealand police on alert in downtown Auckland today

RNZ News Three people have been killed in a shooting in Auckland central business district today, including the gunman. Six people were also wounded, including two...
Papuans march in solidarity for United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) becoming a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Asia Pacific Report Papuan people throughout the territory of West Papua have held huge demonstrations of support for full membership of the United Liberation Movement...
Oppenheimer . . . a wait-and-see approach from the Japanese film industry

ANALYSIS: By Peter C. Pugsley, University of Adelaide While Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is opening in much of the world this week, a Japanese...
Papua Voices chair Harun Rumbarar, VI Papua Film Festival Committee chair Iren Fatagur, and Markus Wayeni during a media conference at the Papuan Voices secretariat on Monday

Jubi News Jayapura will once again host the sixth edition of the Papua Film Festival (FFP VI), scheduled to take place next month from August...
RNZ steps up its multilingual media coverage for Asian migrant communities to add to its long-established Te Ao Māori and Pacific sections

RNZ News From today readers of rnz.co.nz will see a change to the home page, and a new initiative to tell the stories of Aotearoa...
New Zealand’s Malia Steinmetz in action against Argentina

RNZ Pacific The 2023 Women's World Cup kicks off in Auckland tomorrow when co-hosts New Zealand face Norway. It is the biggest football tournament ever to...
A KNPB rally in support of full membership for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit proposed to be held from yesterday until July 21 has been postponed...
Suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe at the Gatot Subroto Army Central Hospital 16 July 2023

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, who is detained in Indonesia on corruption charges, was supposed to go on trial yesterday...
Solomon Star's report on China visit 17July23

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist, and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The New Zealand government has rejected claims by...
A covid-19 vaccination centre on Nukunonu atoll, Tokelau, in August 2021

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The number of covid-19 community cases in Tokelau has surpassed 50 and has now cropped up on all three...
How the PNG Post-Courier today reported the news of President Macron's impending visit

RNZ Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron will make a first official visit to Papua New Guinea next Friday as part of a short Pacific trip. AFP...
A young man from East Sepik was stabbed and died instantly at Madang's Bates Oval on 17 July 2023

By Dorothy Mark in Madang, PNG In the last 15 days of the month of July, 15 murders have occurred in the northern Papua New...
Brown Girl Woke activists

By Leitu Fereti in Suva The Brown Girl Woke initiative hopes to continue empowering Samoan youth in fighting against the culture of silence over violence. Founder...
ULMWP president Benny Wenda (left) at a prayer vigil and flag-raising in Suva

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) continues to pledge its commitment to advocate for the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) to...
Mangrove forest destruction in the Youtefa Bay Nature Park conservation area

Jubi News Media organisations in Papua -- including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) of Jayapura City, the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) of Papua and...
Professor Steven Ratuva

By Shayal Devi in Suva "Our people are fed up with coups"  -- this is the message from renowned Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva as...