Yearly Archives: 2024

Honouring the death of four-year-old Ali Amer Zaqout

Asia Pacific Report About 1000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for a two-hour rally in central Auckland today and marched down Queen Street and...
Fiji's Acting Director of Public Prosecutions John Rabuku

By Repeka Nasiko in Suva "Justice has won," says Fiji's acting Director of Public Prosecutions John Rabuku following the sentencing of former prime minister Voreqe...
The NZ pilot and humanitarian relief crew being welcomed to Jackson's International Airport

PNG Post-Courier New Zealand High Commissioner Peter Zwart and PNG Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph welcomed a C-130 Hercules to Port Moresby this week to...
Television New Zealand

RNZ News Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...
Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez

Asia Pacific Report Barangay New Zealand's Rene Molina has interviewed the country's first Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez who was sworn into Parliament yesterday as...
The European Union’s Pacific Ambassador Barbara Plinkert

By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes...
Zealand war memorial inaugurated in Boulouparis

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Authorities in the small town of Boulouparis have commemorated Armistice Day on May 8 with a...
TVNZ's Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver with Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro at Government House

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...
President Joe Biden

Pacific Media Watch The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
Samoa's TV3 streaming

RNZ Pacific In a first of its kind in Samoa, Apia Broadcasting channel TV3 is moving its station completely to online streaming because it can...
USP student journalists garland Henry Puna

By Kamna Kumar in Suva Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental...
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama walks out of the Suva High Court escorted by police officers to the be taken to jail today.

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one year in prison, Fiji media are reporting. Bainimarama, alongside suspended Fiji Police Commissioner...
Former Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government's oil and gas plans show it is concerned...
Masked pro-Palestinian student protesters in the United States

Asia Pacific Report Ohio’s top lawyer has warned the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used...
PNG's deputy opposition leader James Nomane

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's deputy opposition leader James Nomane has accused the government of "reckless economic management" that has forced devaluation to manage loan...
More than half the people in Rafah are children

RNZ News As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...
Councillor Josh Chandulal-Mackay moved the motion

By Robin Martin, RNZ News reporter A New Zealand local authority, Whanganui District Council, has passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,...
Israel destroys the last of Gaza's universities

Asia Pacific Report Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
Palestinian NZ women speaking at the Gaza ceasefire rally

Asia Pacific Report The Aotearoa chapter of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has appealed to the New Zealand government to call...
Bougainville's Attorney-General Ezekiel Massat

PNG Post-Courier Bougainville Affairs Minister Manasseh Makiba has described the Post-Courier’s front page story yesterday regarding a meeting between Bougainville and national government leaders as...
Closure of Al Jazeera in Israel

Asia Pacific Report Haggai Matar, executive director of the independent +972 Magazine, has described the Tel Aviv government’s decision to shut down Al Jazeera in...
World Press Freedom Day and climate crisis

Wansolwara The news media’s crucial role in climate change and environment journalism was the focus of The University of the South Pacific’s Journalism Programme 2024...