Monthly Archives: September 2023

Pacific community members parade through Oamaru

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific leader in New Zealand's South Island wants the future government to prioritise bridging the Pacific pay-gap. Reverend Alofa...
UPNG's Professor Frank Griffin with protesting medical students

PNG Post-Courier The University of Papua New Guinea's vice-chancellor, Professor Frank Griffin, has assured protesting students of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences that...
Stuff media group and AI

Stuff New Zealand's Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power...
Since becoming established in Fiji in 2014, the South Korean-founded cult Grace Road has expanded

By Henry Pope Fiji's government has taken the local leader of an influential South Korean doomsday sect into immigration custody after he and several other...
Paiute-speaking First Nations language advocate Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas

TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas is on a mission to save her indigenous language from extinction. There...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) summit in Port Vila

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his comments that PNG had "no right to comment" on human rights abuses...
Fiji's Semi Radradra and Waisea Nayacalevu with Nick Tompkins of Wales

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific sports reporter in Bordeaux Fiji lost a game they could and should have won as Wales survived a late onslaught...
Fiji police officers Corporal Gerry McGoon (on left) and PC Sevania Manulevu on foot patrol along Victoria Parade in Suva

SUNDAY TIMES EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor Fred Wesley If there is a rise in robberies in some of Fiji's urban areas, then something...
The NZ Council of Trade Unions' controversial front page advocacy ad in The New Zealand Herald

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, Mediawatch presenter The New Zealand Herald copped criticism for publishing a front-page attack ad targeting the National Party leader this...
Flying Fijians players at the team announcement in Bordeaux

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific sports reporter in Bordeaux Flyhalf Teti Tela says he is under no pressure as he prepares to face Wales in...
Fiji Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua (left) and Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim

By Vijay Narayan and Mosese Raqio in Suva Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim is currently in Fiji immigration custody as he has been...
Northern Governor Gary Juffa's law and order message

PNG Post-Courier Northern Governor Gary Juffa has joined Papua New Guinea's police chief and the Prime Minister in calling for Papua New Guineans to lay...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has told Indonesia's President Joko Widodo that PNG has no right to criticise Jakarta over what...
Grace Road cult court order

By Anish Chand in Lautoka The High Court in Lautoka yesterday issued orders to the Fiji police and the Immigration Department not to remove four...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem

RNZ Pacific The Palestinian Authority has called the opening of Papua New Guinea's Israeli embassy in Jerusalem an "aggression" and a "violation" of international law. In...
Nonga Hospital in East New Britain

By Dianne Wilson in Rabaul, PNG As the Papua New Guinea government continues its globe trotting, the Nonga Base hospital in Rabaul, East New Britain...
Co-chairs Nina Santos and Father Henry Rogo of the Te Ohu founding assembly last night

Asia Pacific Report Opposition National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis was among three political leaders who made a surprising commitment at a debate last night...
Vanuatu Prime Minister Sato Kilman

By Doddy Morris in Port Vila Vanuatu’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sato Kilman, has spoken out on the importance of preserving freedom of speech while...
Former ULMWP president Benny Wenda

RNZ Pacific The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared it will now base itself in the Pacific region after years of partial...
The evacuation of Michelle Kurisi's body

Jubi News The Human Rights Lawyers Association (PAHAM) Papua has demanded a "thorough and impartial" investigation into the death of Michelle Kurisi, a civilian involved...
Today's PNG Post-Courier front page report on the latest sorcery allegation-related killing

PNG Post-Courier Standing silently, the 8-year-old girl in Papua New Guinea could only watch as her mother was stripped and tortured until she succumbed to...
Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Melanesian Leaders' Summit pre-meeting of the Foreign Ministers' in Port Vila last month

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Radio New Zealand journalist says an Indonesian government official attempted to bribe and intimidate him at last month's...