Yearly Archives: 2024
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail
Asia Pacific Report
South Africa has accused Israel of "genocidal intent" over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at...
PNG’s Marape under pressure to resign as 6 MPs quit after Moresby riots
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
A political crisis is starting to brew in Papua New Guinea as calls are made for Prime Minster James...
PM Marape summons troops after Port Moresby goes up in flames
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Soldiers and police were jointly patrolling the streets of the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby today as the...
At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent; Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist; and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist
At least...
West Papuan call to boycott Indonesian elections and ‘reclaim sovereignty’
Asia Pacific Report
The pro-independence United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared a boycott of the Indonesian elections next month and has called...
This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since October 7 is many times worse than what...
Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Shops have been set on fire or looted in parts of Papua...
Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...
Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our...
Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
A former New Caledonia-based High Commissioner, Patrice Faure, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Faure is...
Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed
Pacific Media Watch
Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air...
Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Two years ago New Zealand joined 22 other countries in supporting the Ukrainian case against Russia at the International Court of...
Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against power
OBITUARY: By Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman of Green Left
Sydney-born investigative journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger died on December 31, 2023.
He should be...
