Yearly Archives: 2025

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The former head of BenarNews' Pacific bureau says a United States court ruling this week ordering the US Agency...

Pacific Media Watch The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network today condemned the Fiji government's failure to stand up for international law and justice over the...

Part Two of the three-part Solidarity's Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Vietnam is a lesson we should have...

RNZ Pacific Despite calls from women's groups urging the government to implement policies to address the underrepresentation of women in politics, the introduction of temporary...

Asia Pacific Report The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in Widakuswara v Lake, affirming the US Agency...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist In recent weeks, Bougainville has taken the initiative, boldly stating that it expects to be independent by 1...

ANALYSIS: By Joel Hodge, Australian Catholic University and Antonia Pizzey, Australian Catholic University Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, aged 88, the Vatican announced....

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has appealed to Foreign Minister Winston Peters askingto  New Zealand initiate a call for an internationally enforced...

Asia Pacific Report Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, has died aged 88 a day after he made his...

Part one of a three-part series: On the courage to remember COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The first demonstration I ever went on was at the age...

COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim Palestinians have always been passionate about learning. During the Ottoman era, Palestinian students travelled to Istanbul, Cairo, and Beirut to pursue...

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed...

Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand's largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of...

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...

By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including...

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last...

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel...

Asia Pacific Report A researcher says the Israeli prison system aims to subjugate the Palestinian people as rallies across the West Bank marked Prisoners' Day...

Shrinking budgets and job insecurity means there are fewer opportunities for young journalists, and that's bad news, especially in regional Australia, reports 360info ANALYSIS: By...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week "official travel overseas"...

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand...

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...