Yearly Archives: 2025

Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990

Pacific Media Watch Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão has paid tribute to the “courageous and determined” contribution of Australian journalist Robert Domm to...
USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou's first visit to New Caledonia is marked by marathon political...
New documentary presents detailed accounts of Israeli soldiers opening fire unprovoked on civilians running toward food handouts

Middle East Monitor Israeli soldiers have revealed that Palestinian civilians were killed inside Gaza in a free-for-all at the wish of army officers amid a...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

RNZ Pacific An Israeli minister touring the Pacific to discuss defence and cooperation says Fiji and Papua New Guinea are “great friends”. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister...
Leonora Tumala shares her frustration after their homes in Daet were crushed by a tree in the typhoon

By Vince Angelo Ferreras in Daet, Philippines Several barangays in Camarines Norte were heavily battered by the powerful winds and rains from Typhoon Uwan --...
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific nations are at the world's biggest climate talks making the familiar...
Relatives mourn over the body of Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Mutayr

Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in...
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi

ANALYSIS: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson...
Award-winning TVNZ investigative journalist Indira Stewart speaking at the Pacific Media International conference in Suva, Fiji, in July 2024. Papers from the conference are featured in the inaugural edition of Pacific Media being published today.

Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future,...
Concern over the Pacific Ocean being hyper-militarised

RNZ Pacific Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative...
Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)

Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30...
Pacific People's Mission to Kanaky

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people's mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a "profound sense of distrust" in the French state's role...
"Let Gaza Live" says a placard in a New Zealand protest against the Israeli genocide and environmental devastation in West Auckland

As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now also pose lethal risks in  environmental and health catastrophe. SPECIAL...
A BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions - placard

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland's Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while...
Palestinians clear rubble to search for survivors in a Gaza house

A Gaza resident tells his story of the struggle to survive in Israel's Gaza genocide today, "ceasefire" or not. SPECIAL REPORT: By Qasem Waleed El-Farra On...
Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard

RNZ News The current New Zealand government has a "Trumpian accent" that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world's leading...
PNG's conjoined twins

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The parents of conjoined twins in Papua New Guinea have made a desperate global appeal to try to...
For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

Keeping a line of sight to the challenges of both COP30 in Brazil next week and also the subsequent Pacific's COP31. A Pacific perspective. COMMENTARY:...
A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration

SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...
The winds of political change are blowing in a populist-left direction globally

COMMENTARY: By Bryce Edwards Yesterday’s victory of “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in the race for the New York mayoralty is fuelling debate among progressives around...
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Newly appointed French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou has now rescheduled her first visit to New...
This enmity towards journalism, has been a hallmark of the Trump presidency

COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance...