Yearly Archives: 2023
OPM calls on global trade unions to blacklist Indonesian goods, services
Asia Pacific Report
On the eve of Papua New Guinea’s hosted Pacific meetings, Free Papua Organisation-OPM leader Jeffrey Bomanak has called for an international embargo...
Pacific leaders arrive in Port Moresby ahead of Modi and Blinken PNG visit
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific leaders are starting to trickle into Papua New Guinea for two high level meetings and a number of...
Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University
Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding...
Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests
Jubi News in Jayapura
Esther Haluk, a women’s rights activist from GARDA Papua, is among West Papuan activists who have condemned a declining state of...
Top UN Pacific official told to leave Fiji amid ‘harassment’ allegations
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
Allegations of sexual harassment have emerged in the case of a senior United Nations...
Hong Kong responds with veiled threat while claiming it still respects press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Just hours after Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 116 publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from around the world called for the release...
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake near Loyalty Islands triggers tsunami threat for Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is warning coastal areas are expected to experience strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges following...
Biden apologises to PNG, Blinken being sent for Pacific dialogue
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
United States President Joe Biden yesterday apologised to Prime Minister James Marape and the people of...
US envoy gets two of three north Pacific nations to sign defence deals
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for...
Budget 2023: NZ’s climate and science sectors react to wins and losses
RNZ News
Prominent environmental groups in Aotearoa New Zealand are less than impressed with what they describe as underwhelming budget investments in climate, but an...
NZ’s ‘no frills’ cost-of-living Budget centres on cheaper childcare
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ's deputy political editor
Young families are the clear target of Labour's election-year Budget, but its flagship promise - cheaper childcare -...
Loafers Lodge fire: Man arrested and charged with arson
RNZ News
A man has been arrested and charged in relation to the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge in the capital Wellington's Newtown suburb on...
PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation...
Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's anti-nuclear organisation Association 193 has criticised the latest French report about the impact of the France's nuclear...
Ten invited from PNG to witness coronation in delegation saga
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea was allowed 10 people to be invited to witness the Coronation of King Charles III on in London on May...
Four women feature in Tahiti’s new Tavini Huira’atira government
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's newly-elected President Moetai Brotherson has presented a 10-member government, which includes four women.
Brotherson has confirmed his pre-election choice of Eliane Tevahitua...
Biden cuts out Australia and Papua New Guinea on Pacific visit
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
US President Joe Biden will cut out his historic trip to Papua New Guinea -- and also to Australia...
RNZ announces presenters for Midday Report and Pacific Waves
RNZ Pacific
RNZ has announced Charlotte Cook as the new presenter of Midday Report -- Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga on RNZ National and Susana...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending West Papuan ‘holocaust’
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
US planned security pact with PNG raises concerns for Pacific
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The United States is poised to sign a security pact with Papua New Guinea which would give US armed...
‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 116 global media leaders
Pacific Media Watch
More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...
PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...