Yearly Archives: 2025

By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Prime Minister François Bayrou's surprise announcement yesterday that he will call for a parliamentary confidence...

RNZ Pacific Fire engulfed the Marshall Islands Nitijela (Parliament building) just after midnight on last night with firefighters risking their lives as they battled the...

Pacific Media Watch A media studies analyst has condemned the latest deadly attack by Israel on journalists in Gaza and challenged Western media over the...

COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns If it were China or Russia, the imposition of sanctions and threats of harm to prosecutors and judges of the International...

COMMENTARY: By Asofou So'o Although seven political parties have officially registered to contest Samoa’s general election this Friday, three have been politically visible through their...

RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is condemning Israel's E1 settlement plan for the occupied West Bank, despite New Zealand not signing a joint statement...

By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of...

By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A newly established "drafting committee" held its inaugural meeting in Nouméa this week, aiming to translate...

Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel's...

COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant...

Pacific Media Watch Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and...

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of Pacific Media Network As Israel expands its relationships with Pacific Island nations, an activist is criticising the region for its “dreadful...

By Andrew Mathieson Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji -- in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity -- to hold the greater Pacific region...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza. Earlier this month,...

Pacific Media Watch “Speak Up Kōrerotia” -- a radio show centred on human rights issues -- has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand's police commissioner says he understands the potential impact the country's criminal deportees have on smaller Pacific Island nations. Commissioner Richard Chambers' comments...

Asia Pacific Report The advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned New Zealand's "deliberate distraction" over sanctions against Israel and has vowed...

ANALYSIS: By Treasa Dunworth, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau It’s now more than a week since Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced his government had...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls is once again in New Caledonia for a four-day visit...