Yearly Archives: 2024

The last photograph of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, before he arrested and abducted by Israeli forces

Democracy Now! Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the...
The late former US President Jimmy Carter in his younger years

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas has paid tribute to former...
Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity group has protested over the participation of Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko in New Zealand's ASB Tennis Classic in...
An example of Aotearoa's "kohanga generation" is the country's youngest MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke

By Ella Stewart, (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao Māori On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties...
French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government...
201 Palestinian journalists killed in Israel's war on Gaza

By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch My message today is really simple but brutal.  Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Fiji's sacked Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya

RNZ Pacific Fiji MP Lynda Tabuya has been dismissed as the country's Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said in a...
Outgoing New Caledonia President Louis Mapou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent, French Pacific desk New Caledonia's territorial government has been toppled on Christmas Eve, due to a mass resignation within...
The burnt out vehicle with the clearly visible "Press" label in which an Israeli strike killed the five journalists in Gaza

Pacific Media Watch Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed...
Cardinal David of the Philippines

By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless...
Fiji's new magazine FijiNikua

By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Veteran journalist and editor Stanley Simpson has spoken about the enduring power of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s...
Reverend Dr Munther Isaac

Asia Pacific Report Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...
Te Ao journalist, lawyer, advocate and musician Moana Maniapoto

By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern at RNZ News From being the headline to creating them, Moana Maniapoto has walked a rather...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

By Litia Cava, FBC News multimedia journalist Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has revealed how arms and ammunition used to conduct the 1987 military coup...
The newly named Z Huatoki in Ngāmotu

By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern at RNZ News The New Zealand fuel company Z Energy is swapping out street names for...
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant...
By turns over his long career, Michael Leunig was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur

ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University Michael Leunig -- who died in the early...
A group of schoolchildren boarding a military aircraft

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Twenty New Caledonian children who suffered the shock of Port Vila's 7.3 magnitude earthquake have been...
A scene of utter devastation in Gaza

Asia Pacific Report “It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour

By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly...
"A holistic and structured approach to support for the news media industry, rather than the patchwork of band aid solutions"

Pacific Media Watch The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability...
The recreated Christian nativity scene in Suva

Asia Pacific Report Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas. The Fiji...