Yearly Archives: 2025

Indonesian security forces clash with West Papuan protesters in Manokwari, Sorong, today

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence advocate has accused Indonesia of "continuing to murder children" while escalating its military operations across the Melanesian region. United...
More than 100,000 registered voters are heading to the polls to decide Samoa's next government.

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific reporter in Apia, Samoa Voting commenced in Samoa's general election today, with more than 100,000 eligible voters heading to the...
Going . . . going . . . the dual French and Kanaky flags on New Caledonian driving licences

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific Correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls has ended an extended seven-day visit to New Caledonia with...
New Zealand protesters over the Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza carry symbolic bodies

Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet...
RNZ’s diminishing linear radio audience has to be understood in context

ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The recent internal report on RNZ’s performance, variously described as “scathing” and “blunt”...
Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The President of Bougainville, Ishmael Toroama, says he is not feeling the pressure as he seeks a second...
Assisting the elderly at Samoan pre-polling

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RZ Pacific reporter in Apia, Samoa Pre-polling has kicked off in Samoa today, with around 1700 people expected to cast their votes...
Sydney journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney The grim facts should speak for themselves. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has deliberately killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian...
The UN General Assembly

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has challenged the New Zealand government to support a move by Türkiye to vote to suspend Israeli...
Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary

Pacific Media Watch An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel's trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies...
Resigned Reuters photographer Valerie Zink

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...
France's High Commission in Nouméa

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...
Marshall Islands firefighters try to contain the Nitijela (Parliament) fire

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...
The Gaza Media Office calls on the international community to pressure Israel to stop the genocide

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...
Trump’s shielding of Netanyahu and his advisers from criminal proceedings through sanctions and threats to members of the court is akin to both aiding and abetting crimes under the Rome Statute

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...
A Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) rally held during the 2025 Samoan general election campaign

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...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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...
Part of the huge march on Gadigal Country/Sydney, on Saturday calling for sanctions against Israel over its genocide in Gaza

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...
Jubi chief editor Victor Mambor

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...
FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) members hold "No to Bougival" banners in a Nouméa protest

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...
Rifa Berliana Arifin, Indonesia's country director for the Sumud Nusantara initiative (centre)

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...
New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military

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...