Monthly Archives: June 2025
Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Three staffers from Papua New Guinea's peak anti-corruption body are embroiled in a standoff that has brought into...
Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts
By Ben McKay
America's retreat from foreign aid is being felt deeply in Pacific media, where pivotal outlets are being shuttered and journalists work unpaid.
The...
Former Congress staffer allowed to return to Kanaky New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
One of seven people transferred to mainland France almost a year ago, following the May 2024...
Ship runs aground in Fiji – then its rescue vessel capsizes
RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Maritime Safety Authority has launched an investigation into Goundar Shipping Limited following two incidents involving its vessels.
Late last month, one vessel ran...
Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education given airing
Pacific Media Watch
Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function...
PNG’s Namah calls for tighter bio controls, patrols on Indonesian border
By Scholar Kassas in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinea minister has raised concerns about "serious issues" at the PNG-Indonesia border due to a lack...
Samoa parliament formally dissolved after months of uncertainty
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Parliament has been formally dissolved, and an early election is set to take place within three months.
After months of political instability and...
Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians
Asia Pacific Report
An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan pro-independence fighters in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the...
Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico
A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
I want to share a writer’s journey -- of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I...
PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems...
Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing in Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff
“What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s...
How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine
By Muhammad Shehada
Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own...
