Yearly Archives: 2025

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa

COMMENTARY: By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson and Junior S. Ami With just over a year left in her tenure as Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi...
A local business sign in Port Vila reads “Stay strong and carry on Vanuatu”

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Port Vila Today marks one month since a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, claiming 14 lives,...
The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication

Pacific Media Watch Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in a new global book on intercultural...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka with the newly appointed ministers

By Anish Chand in Suva A Fiji community human rights coalition has called on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to halt his "reckless expansion" of government...
"The draft agreement clearly notes that Palestinians can return to their homes"

A ceasefire in Gaza is not the end of Palestine’s nightmare, but the start of Israel’s. Legal moves will only gather momentum as the...
The Owen Hall polling station in Port Vila, Vanuatu, as the snap election got under way today

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Port Vila More than 180,000 registered voters are expected to cast their votes today with polls now open...
Palestinians celebrating after the announcement of a ceasefire in the 15-month Israeli war on Gaza

By Daniel Perese of Te Ao Māori News Māori politicians across the political spectrum in Aotearoa New Zealand have called for immediate aid to enter...
Suva-based lawyer Sainiana Radrodro (left) and Fiji Women’s Rights Movement’s executive director Nalini Singh

COMMENTARY: By Monika Singh The lack of women representation in parliaments across the world remains a vexed and contentious issue. In Fiji, this problem has again...
The ceasefire agreement after Israel's 15-month genocidal war on Gaza is set to begin on Sunday

Asia Pacific Report The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities to allow foreign journalists into Gaza in the...
UNRWA social work teams organise activities

COMMENTARY: By Chris Gunness 'In Gaza, only UNRWA has the infrastructure to distribute aid to scale, such as vehicles, warehouses, distribution centres and staff. However,...
Gaza journalist Abubaker Abed

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s assault on...
Voters in Port Vila line up at the Vanuatu Electoral Commission

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Port Vila The electoral commission in Vanuatu is trying its best to clear up some confusion with the...
This legislation could capture critics of New Zealand’s foreign and defence policy

COMMENTARY: By Maire Leadbeater Aotearoa New Zealand's coalition government has introduced a bill to criminalise "improper conduct for or on behalf of a foreign power"...
Armed resistance fighters of the Jenin Brigade in Jenin refugee camp 0n 29 December 2025

While mediator Qatar says a Gaza ceasefire deal is at the closest point it has been in the past few months -- adding that...
And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Indonesia officially joined the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- consortium last week marking a significant milestone in...
Filipino investigative journalist Manny "Bok" Mogato

By Ria de Borja in Manila For 30 years, Filipino journalist Manny “Bok” Mogato covered the police and defence rounds, and everything from politics to...
Koniambo Nickel

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's mothballed northern nickel plant, Koniambo Nickel (KNS), has appointed a new chairman to steer...
The 1978 Camp David Accords

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! As we continue our discussion of President Jimmy Carter’s legacy, we look at his policies in the...
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk France's naval flagship, the 261m aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, is to be deployed to the...
Protesters flag a revived BDS - boycott, divest, sanction - campaign today over the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity advocate today appealed to New Zealanders to shed their feelings of powerlessness over the Gaza genocide and "take action"...
A candidate’s campaign poster for Vanuatu’s snap general election next week on January 16

COMMENTARY: By Anna Naupa Out of the rubble of last year's 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila on December 17 and the...
"If people believe social media platforms are full of scams and hoaxes, they won’t want to spend time there or do business on them."

An open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to the social media giant's decision to abandon its fact-checking regime protection in the...