Yearly Archives: 2024

By Repeka Nasiko in Suva "Let other people decide your salaries" is the latest message in the Fiji parliamentary pay controversy. This is the call of...

By Miriam Zarriga in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea Little Ima met Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape last Friday during the "haus krai" in...

By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Flipped "back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis...

RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in for an acclaimed American Samoan poet and teacher who was murdered last Saturday in Apia allegedly by a fellow...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has commended the coordinated efforts between police and defence intelligence units in the lead up to...

By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies...

OPEN LETTER: Gaza academics and administrators We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says "calm wise heads" are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia. A security force of...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape visited Wabag, the capital of Enga  province, to meet authorities before...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in...

Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military...

By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist Jessie Ounei is following in her mum's footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist. Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside...

COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand's mainstream media has been reporting on in...

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...

RNZ Pacific Close to 8000 people have been told to be on standby for evacuation from a landslide-prone area in the Highlands of Papua New...

Pacific Media Watch The Daily Blog, New Zealand's most important leftwing website of news, views and analyses at the heart of the country's most conservative...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the 12-day state of emergency imposed in New Caledonia on...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury The coverage by the New Zealand media over the brutal crackdown in New Caledonia by the French on the indigenous Kanak...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 2000 people were buried alive in the huge landslide which hit Papua New Guinea on Friday,...

Green Left Show Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky New Caledonia have revolted in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France...