Yearly Archives: 2025
Wenda accuses Indonesia of killing West Papuans for ‘independence’ day
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...
Polls open in Samoa’s 2025 general election with one seat declared
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...
French Overseas Minister pushes ahead with Bougival deal despite FLNKS snub
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...
NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists
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...
A ‘scathing’ report on RNZ’s performance obscures the good news – and the challenge...
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”...
Bougainville’s President Ishmael Toroama candid and relaxed a week out from polling
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...
Samoa general election: Pre-polling kicks off
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...
Antony Loewenstein: Israel’s murderous killing spree against Palestinian journalists
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...
New Zealand challenged to vote for Israel’s suspension at UN
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...
Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter in wake of...
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...
Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza
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...
French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations
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...
‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex
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...
Media analyst slams Israeli killing of five Gaza journalists – calls for Western outrage
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...
Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must be defended
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...
Gearing up for the 2025 Samoan general election – three-way split?
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...
NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan
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...
200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends arms trade
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...
Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist 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 snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia
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...
Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla
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...
Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?
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...