Yearly Archives: 2023

New Caledonia's Assembly President Roch Wamytan talking to news media in Baku

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent Inclusive talks in Paris between France and Kanaky New Caledonia's politicians have yielded outcomes, including a French-submitted document...
Clarifications or not, PNG Prime Minister James Marape has left a lingering impression that Papua New Guinea’s foreign policy is for sale

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week...
Homeless Raymond Green and his worldly possessions

By Theophiles Singh in Port Moresby Living in the Papua New Guinea capital of Port Moresby without a house or a source of income is...
MC Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury (left) opens the Taxpayers' Union Northland election debate at Kerikeri

By Peter de Graaf, RNZ News Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime walked into the lion's den when she took part in an election debate in Kerikeri...
Climate crisis . . . time to speak of “legally binding obligations'

By Isabella Kaminski in Hamburg The heads of small island states -- including four Pacific countries -- most vulnerable to climate change have criticised “endless”...
The controversial photo of Milne Bay Governor Gordon Wesley (red shirt) and gang leader Eugene Pakailasi (blue shirt)

By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby “I will surrender if you guarantee I will not be killed,” says Eugene Pakailasi, who took over leadership of...
NZ's Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

From RNZ's Mata with Mihingarangi Forbes  Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes there are better ways to bring down the cost of housing, electricity and groceries...
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...