Yearly Archives: 2025

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua says people in his country are getting complacent about...

Pacific Media Watch Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not...

Three times this year the world has been close to nuclear catastrophe of one form or another -- the India–Pakistan conflict, the ongoing Ukraine–Russia...

Asia Pacific Report WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was among the tens of thousands of protesters in Australia staging a "humanitarians for Gaza" march today across...

Asia Pacific Report While the Israeli government claims it is backing "clans" in Gaza to counter the resistance movement Hamas, the groups it supports more...

Asia Pacific Report A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid food depots,...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor A former New Caledonia Congress president says there are "not enough" benefits for Kanaks in a new "draft"...

By Torika Tokalau, Local Democracy Reporter The sisters running Auckland's first authentic Polynesian show for tourists say it's not just for visitors, but also to...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia's oldest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has officially rejected a political agreement on...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood,...

Asia Pacific Report Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific countries have emerged relatively unscathed from a restless night punctuated by tsunami warning sirens. The tsunami waves, caused by...

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's population has shrunk to 264,596 over the past six years, the latest census, conducted...

As we’ve watched from afar the tragedy unfolding in Gaza over the past 22 months, it’s worth remembering the part New Zealand troops played...

Asia Pacific Report The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji has sharply criticised the Fiji government's stance over Israel's genocide in Gaza, saying it...

Last week, the UN's highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit climate change and provide restitution for...

By Dionisia Tabureguci in Suva International trade expert Steven Okun has warned that the “era of uncertainty” in global trade set in motion by US...

COMMENTARY: By Jasim Al-Azzawi For the past few years, governments across the world have paid close attention to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East....

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States military veterans in the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Palau received increased...

No New Zealanders were on board the Handala in the latest arrest and abductions of Freedom Flotilla crew on humanitarian siege-busting missions to Gaza....

Muslims, and the global community, must rally around the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights: to exist, to return home, and to live free from occupation. ANALYSIS:...