Yearly Archives: 2024

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Security forces reinforcements were sent from France ahead of two rival marches in the capital Nouméa...

RNZ Pacific More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) showing New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens. The New Zealander...

Pacific Media Watch This unpublished "heartfelt" letter sent to The Press this week criticising its April 6 editorial about a "turning point" in the deadly...

Loop PNG Facilitated by ABC International Development, and conducted by veteran journalist Scott Waide, the first-of-its-kind training in Papua New Guinea aims to plug the...

By Sharon Muller of Arah Juang On Friday, March 22, a video circulated of TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers torturing a civilian in Papua. In the...

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A man on Saipan has burned the official CNMI flag in protest, saying that...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’ The future of New...

PNG Post-Courier The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the "valley of tears" in...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Pacific nations and smaller states are being urged to unite to avoid being caught in the crossfire of...

RNZ News Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its website and...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...

RNZ News All of Newshub operations -- part of New Zealand's second largest television news network channel Three -- are to be shut down and...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Fresh clashes in New Caledonia have erupted in the suburbs of Nouméa between security forces and...

Asia Pacific Report The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country's Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Broadband satellite service provider Starlink is now being used in the Pacific but not always legally, for now. In Vanuatu,...

RNZ News New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...

By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to...

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent Majuro Mayor Ladie Jack is raising the alarm about criminal behaviour involving Marshallese deported...

Pacific Media Watch Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology's...

RNZ News The New Zealand government is bringing in immediate changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa, which it says will help protect migrants from...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has authorised a joint military and police operation in a decisive move to curb the escalating...