Yearly Archives: 2024
History ‘replaying itself’ in Kanaky but Pacific solidarity growing, says Tau
French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Kanaky New Caledonia last month in a largely failed bid to solve the French Pacific territory's political deadlock,...
FijiFirst party founders Voreqe Bainimarama, Sayed-Khaiyum and others resign in shock move
RNZ Pacific
The founding members of the FijiFirst party, including former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and ex-attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, have resigned.
Sayed-Khaiyum confimed that party president...
Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells...
By Monika Singh in Suva
New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a...
Sir Julius Chan ‘alive and well’ response to fake PNG media post
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
New Ireland Governor and a former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Julius Chan told the PNG Post-Courier in...
Israel kills 274 plus Palestinians to rescue 4 captives – US allegedly involved in...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yumna Patel
At least 274 Palestinians were killed and more than 698 others were wounded on Saturday in the central Gaza Strip,...
Macron’s ‘dialogue mission’ takes a break from unrest-ridden New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A "dialogue mission" set up by French President Emmanuel Macron when he visited New Caledonia last...
‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track...
Asia Pacific Report
About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand's largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in the frontline’
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Kanak people in Aotearoa New Zealand are lamenting the loss of family and friends in Kanaky...
PNG ‘no dictatorship’, says opposition leader Nomane over foiled vote
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's opposition leader James Nomane says Parliament needs to be recalled immediately as the gravity of Wednesday’s...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Nobody talks about what’s happening here anymore’
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
People in Kanaky New Caledonia are disappointed that the riots last month are now being overshadowed by the Parliament...
NZ to make UNRWA payment after Gaza controversy, says Peters
RNZ News
New Zealand will make its annual payment of $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as scheduled.
Foreign Affairs Minister...
Force not the answer in Kanaky New Caledonia, says PANG
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Pacific regional network has deplored what they call increasing brutality on Kanak youth in Kanaky New Caledonia and...
FestPAC 2024: Wa’a ceremony heralds start of Pacific cultural celebration
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific in Hawai’i
A fleet of traditional voyaging canoes have been welcomed into Kualoa bay, Hawai'i, heralding the beginning of the...
Open letter to President Macron: End Kanak vote ‘unfreezing’ and complete decolonisation
Asia Pacific Report
The president and board of the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia has appealed in an open letter to French President Emmanuel...
John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the rest are mostly...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words.
I have a...
FestPAC 2024: Largest celebration of indigenous Pacific islanders kicks off
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific in Hawai'i
After an eight-year break due to the covid pandemic, the world's largest Pacific festival is kicking off again...
Columbia Law Review website shut down over ‘censored’ article critical of Israel
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of the Columbia Law Review journal -- made up of faculty and alumni from the university’s law school --...
NZ’s prime minister Luxon in Niue: ‘This is the Pacific family’
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News reporter, in Niue
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he wants New Zealand to be a partner of choice in the...
Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working – we need a...
COMMENTARY: By Jimmy Naouna in Nouméa
The unrest that has gripped Kanaky New Caledonia is the direct result of French President Emmanuel Macron’s partisan and...
France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Police in New Caledonia have a new weapon in their arsenal -- state of the art armoured vehicles...
Luxon’s Niue visit demonstrates NZ ‘commitment to development’
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's trip to Niue holds "profound significance", the Niuean government says.
Luxon heads to Niue today and then to...
Veteran PNG editor promotes Tok Pisin writing, trains journalists
Inside PNG
Anna Solomon, a Papua New Guinean journalist and editor with 40 years experience, is now providing training for journalists at the Wantok Niuspepa.
Wantok...