Yearly Archives: 2024

All quiet and empty on the Nouméa streets . . . curfew extended

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor France has approved a high-level Pacific "fact-finding mission" to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved...
Operation Peace Cartenz investigators at the scene where New Zealand helicopter pilot Glen Malcolm Conning was reportedly shot dead

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of...
A display of Nagasaki photographs past and present

By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to...
News headline of another Israeli operation to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians

"We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin." COMMENTARY:...
ABC chair Kim Williams

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices....
French security forces are still working on removing roadblocks

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist France is "checking" whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Pacific...
"Welcome to Hell" . . . B’Tselem on Palestinian prisoner torture

COMMENTARY: By Qadura Fares On August 3, last Saturday, prisoner rights institutions and Palestinians all around the world were standing in solidarity with Gaza and...
QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

By Maxim Bock, Queensland University of Technology Fiji journalist Felix Chaudhary recalls how the harassment began: “Initially, I was verbally warned to stop.” “And not only...
The Guam flag

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist in Guam The Chamorros are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands -- politically divided between Guam and the...
AAP product director Steve Jancetic and, international development lead, Delia Obst

By Clifton Kissel in Port Vila The Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency has provided a vital training opportunity for journalists at the Vanuatu Daily...
An Indonesian Air Force helicopter prepares to fly to Timika

Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance movement OPM has blamed the tragic death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of...
Tahitian surfer Kauli Vaast

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia's homeboy Kauli Vaast has won the Olympic gold medal in the men's shortboard finals...
PNG's Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika

By Boura Goru Kila in Port Moresby People accused under Papua New Guinea's Cybercrime Code Act may not always find free speech protection offered by...
Australian National University’s Professor Anthony Regan

EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times Australian constitutional law expert Professor Anthony Regan believes Fiji's Coalition government came into power “by the...
The Kiribati Parliament House

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist On Wednesday next week, the people of Kiribati go to the polls in the first of two votes...
Violence as a permanent and massive aspect of life can only be removed when its source is removed

Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

RNZ News The coalition government is telling New Zealanders in Iran and Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions rise in the Middle East. "The New Zealand...
This New York Times “poisoned paradise” story stirred a response

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French desk French Polynesia's top leaders have voiced united angry protests against a New York Times story published this...
Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul (right) and cameraman Rami al-Rifi targeted by Israel military

COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Elmasry On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were...
International Seabed Authority secretary-general-elect Leticia Carvalho (left) of Brazil is congratulated

SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright of BenarNews Promises of "accountability and transparency" in deep-sea mining has seen a tsunami-size vote by nations on Friday for...
Assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh

Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style...
The Freedom Flotilla in Istanbul .

Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the "Break the Siege" aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put...