Monthly Archives: January 2025

Pacific Media Watch A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical...

The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it is engaged in perpetual war. COMMENTARY: By Abdelhalim Abdelrahman US President Donald Trump...

COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala Long live the king and long may he reign, so goes the traditional proclamation. In Tonga, King Tupou VI has shown...

A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her...

OBITUARY: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Papua New Guinea and Neville Choi Papua New Guineans have launched an outpouring of grief and appreciation...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...

PNG Post-Courier In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump...

The New Arab Implementation of Israel's ban on the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA will be disastrous, the aid agency's chief has told the Security...

Asia Pacific Report A national Palestine advocacy group has hit back at critics of its "genocide hotline" campaign against soldiers involved in Israel's war against...

COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain It didn’t come as a surprise to see President Donald Trump sign executive orders to again pull out of the...

What will happen to Australia -- and New Zealand -- once the superpower that has been followed into endless battles, the United States, finally...

After lengthy, torrid and emotional debate a critical decision for the future of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau is being made in March. One party will...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter Kiribati President Taneti Maamau was unable to meet New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters because he had "a...

NBC News in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's cabinet has officially given the green light to the PNG media policy, which will soon be presented...

This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s founding editor Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon for "speaking up for Palestine"....

Asia Pacific Report UN President Donald Trump's idea of mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt has been dismissed by analysts as...

RNZ Pacific Foreign Minister Winston Peters has confirmed New Zealand's aid for Kiribati is being reviewed after its President and Foreign Minister cancelled a meeting...

ANALYSIS: By David Lowe, Deakin University; Andrew Singleton, Deakin University, and Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University After many years of heated debate over whether January 26...

Pacific Media Watch Among his first official acts on returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “restoring freedom of speech...

By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson For Doddy Morris, a journalist with the Vanuatu Daily Post, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu last month on December...

Pacific Media Watch With a ceasefire in force in Gaza for a week, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians in...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution -- not that government will lift a finger to enforce...