Yearly Archives: 2025

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity

Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue) addressing the UN Indigenous People's Forum last week

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...
Union Calédonienne president Emmanuel Tjibaou (blue Pacific shirt) and other participants at the pro-independence FLNKS convention

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third...
A meeting between Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel Filipo Tarakinikini (right) with Israel's Chief of Protocol Gil Haskel as he presents a copy of his credentials yesterday

By Anish Chand in Suva Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel. This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle...
Swedish lawyer and diplomat Elinor Hammarskjold opens by presenting evidence for the United Nations

By Sondos Asem in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice began hearings today into Israel's obligations towards the presence and activities of the...
Damage to South Pentecost villages in the aftermath of last year's Cyclone Lola

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Communities in Vanuatu are learning to grow climate resilient crops, 18 months...
Open feed on PodTalk.Live

PodTalk.live After a successful beta-launch this month, PodTalk.live has now called for people to register as foundation members -- it's free to join the post...
President Trump's first 100 days

Reporters Without Borders Donald Trump campaigned for the White House by unleashing a nearly endless barrage of insults against journalists and news outlets. He repeatedly threatened to...
Speakers paying homage to Pope Francis at the "guerrilla theatre for Palestine" rally in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Asia Pacific Report Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world,...
Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

COMMENTARY: By Mandy Henk When the US Embassy knocked on my door in late 2024, I was both pleased and more than a little suspicious. I'd...
Sister Susana Vaifale and parishioner Michael Muller at St Peter's Basilica

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific presenter The doors of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican have now been closed and the coffin sealed, ahead of...
Pro-Palestinian protesters at a New Zealand solidarity rally in Auckland

COMMENTARY: By Nour Odeh There was faint hope that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza would succeed. That hope is now all but...
Greenpeace International activists display a banner in front of the Maersk Launcher

RNZ Pacific An ocean conservation non-profit has condemned the United States President's latest executive order aimed at boosting the deep sea mining industry. President Donald Trump...
BenarNews former Pacific editor Stefan Armbruster

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...
Protesters calling for the Fiji government today not to support Israel or plan setting up an embassy in Israel while the Gaza genocide continues

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...
Exhibits in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City

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...
Fiji opposition MP Premila Kumar

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...
The US District Court in Washington

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...
People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum in 2019

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...
From the very start of his papacy, Pope Francis seemed determined to do things differently

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....
New Zealand soldiers in the Imperial Camel Corps who took part in the successful Battle of Rafah,

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...
How global news channel Al Jazeera reported the death of Pope Francis at 88

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...