Yearly Archives: 2025

To President Trump, the USAGM [Voice of America] has become a promoter of "anti-American ideas" and agendas

ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so...
The father of Palestinian TV journalist Mohammad Mansour pleads

Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom groups have condemned the Israeli occupation forces for assassinating two more Palestinian journalists covering the Gaza genocide, taking the...
PNG government agencies responsible for communications and ICT

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The Papua New Guinea government has admitted to using a technology that it says was "successfully tested" to...
Lord of the Flies . . . by Mr Fish

Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other...
A Fijians for Palestine supporter shows off his "No embassy on occupied land" tee-shirt

Asia Pacific Report A Fiji-based Pacific solidarity group supporting the indigenous Palestine struggle for survival against the Israeli settler colonial state has today issued a...
Participants at a Pacific Islands Festival in Europe show their support for the Free West Papua campaign

By Christine Rovoi of PMN News A human rights group in Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed support from several Pacific island nations for West Papua,...
French aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle and its Strike Group

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Southern Cross, a French-hosted regional military exercise, is moving to Wallis and Futuna Islands this year. The...
Face to face . . . a pro-Palestinian and human rights protester up close with police at the Christchurch Town Hall

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Christchurch Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Asia Pacific Report Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its...
People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019

By Leah Lowonbu, Stefan Armbruster and Harlyne Joku of BenarNews The Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signalled they are ready to engage with Papua New...
Some of the 1000 protesters who took part in a demonstration in the heart of New Zeland's largest city Auckland today

Pacific Media Watch Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, says that he fears the Netanyahu government’s latest actions, including moves to...
RFMF Territorial Brigade soldiers taking part in the three-day Operation Genesis exercises in Fiji

Asia Pacific Report A joint operation between the Fiji Police Force, Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF), Territorial Force Brigade, Fiji Navy and National Fire...
NZ's Foreign Minister Winston Peters now more optimistic

By Alex Willemyns for Radio Free Asia The Trump administration might let hundreds of millions of dollars in aid pledged to Pacific island nations during...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville's push for independence are planning to...
This photograph shows Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985

Pacific Media Watch Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...
"Silence is complicity" . . . a placard on a sign at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Wellington today

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...
New Zealand journalist Mohamed Hassan presenting the Big Picture podcast

Asia Pacific Report At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday. The Israeli government...
NZ's opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

RNZ News New Zealand opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins is accusing the prime minister of reversing a long-held foreign policy during his current trip to...
The morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza

Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other...
Indonesian police arrest the "Sentani 12" activists

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan liberation advocacy group has condemned the arrest of 12 activists by Indonesian police and demanded their immediate release. The West...
Christianity will now be reflected in the Fifth Goal of the Constitution

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea being declared a Christian nation may offer the impression that the country will improve, but it...