Monthly Archives: December 2024

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...
1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver in Port Vila

By 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver and 1News reporters A number of Kiwis have been successfully evacuated from Vanuatu after a devastating earthquake shook the...
Vanuatu local authorities have been working around the clock since Tuesday to try to locate and rescue people trapped in the Port Vila rubble left by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake this week

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific news editor There are conflicting reports of the official death toll from this week's massive earthquake in Vanuatu as rescue...
This image "will haunt history"

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian history is "deliberately ignored" and is being effectively "erased" as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to...
Paramedic teams from ProMedical Vanuatu treat victims of the earthquake in Port Vila on Tuesday

By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and...
Vanuatu rescuers search for trapped people after yesterday's 7.3 earthquake struck Port Vila

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist World Vision's Vanuatu country director says electricity and water are still affected in the capital Port Vila and strategic...
Vanuatu's earthquake death toll at least 14

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara Vanuatu is now in a state of emergency with at least 14 confirmed deaths following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that...
Serving an "eviction notice" on the Israeli Embassy in Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2023

Asia Pacific Report A broad coalition of civil society organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand have signed an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters...
Screenshot from Port Vila video showing the moment the 7.3 earthquake struck

RNZ News The death toll from Vanuatu's 7.3 earthquake is expected to rise because concrete buildings have collapsed with people inside in the capital Port...