Monthly Archives: October 2023

COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...

Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Vanuatu's Prime Minister Sato Kilman has been voted out through a motion-of-no-confidence...

Asia Pacific Report The state of civic space in Indonesia has been rated as "obstructed" in the latest CIVICUS Monitor report. The civic space watchdog said...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's government has appealed to the Australian Federal Police and the Singapore Police to assist PNG police...

Pacific Media Watch New Caledonia's daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed -- but with a big difference. It is...

RNZ News The Algerian democracy advocate Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations...

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week's French Polynesia sitting of the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Tongan RSE worker, whose case sparked an independent review of Immigration New Zealand's "out-of-hours compliance visit" practices, is...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have denounced the Rome Agreement of...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Network (PMN) has continued its transition into the "Moanaverse" with a new digital home for its news and media PMN said...

By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...

PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has warned protesters against "domestic terrorism" -- when their actions place the safety...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) supporters are livid Labour is refusing to recognise the state of Palestine a full 104 years...

By Hilaire Bule in Port Vila Power has transitioned from Vanuatu's government to the opposition in Parliament during the Fifth Extraordinary Session convened to debate...

By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent Scientists studying dramatic Antarctic sea ice loss have called for urgent reductions to greenhouse gases to keep the...

Jubi News in Jayapura Director Latifah Anum Siregar of the Democracy Alliance for Papua (ALDP) has emphasised the importance of raising awareness about human rights...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent Defence ministers from several Asian and Pacific states are scheduled to meet in New Caledonia for two days...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been spreading misleading climate information at public meetings during the Aotearoa...

SPEECH: By Myles Thomas Kia ora koutou. Ko Ngāpuhi tōku iwi. Ko Ngāti Manu toku hapu. Ko Karetu tōku marae. Ko Myles Thomas toku ingoa. I...

By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter A Dunedin climate activist has been sentenced to 125 hours of community work after writing a fake email saying...