Monthly Archives: March 2025

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a highly partisan 100-minute speech, the longest presidential address to Congress in...

By Leah Lowonbu Vanuatu has celebrated the reconstruction of the national council of chiefs meeting house, called the Malvatumauri nakamal, destroyed by fire two years...

By Susan Edmunds, RNZ News money correspondent The Aotearoa New Zealand union representing many of NZME's journalists says it is "deeply worried" by a billionaire's...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss in Sydney The new Universities Australia (UA) definition of antisemitism, endorsed last month for adoption by 39...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Churches in the Cook Islands are pushing for the country to be declared a Christian nation following the discovery...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over...

RNZ Pacific The Marshall Islands has become the 14th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member state to join the South Pacific's nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament treaty. The...

By Mary Afemata, Local Democracy Reporting The Manurewa Local Board is developing its first Pan-Pacific strategy in Aotearoa New Zealand to amplify Pasifika voices in...

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed support for Gaza's media professionals and called on Israel to urgently lift...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links New...

DOCUMENTARY:  Democracy Now! The Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film -- recently screened in...

Asia Pacific Report The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...

Asia Pacific Report One of the leading Palestinian solidarity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has demanded that the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence. Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...

Asia Pacific Report The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...

Pacific Media Watch With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange,  Israel's military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...

Asia Pacific Report The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...