Yearly Archives: 2025

By Renate Rivers of PMN News Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt has banned the country's only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all...

By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist The world's largest indigenous education conference has kicked off in Auckland, bringing with it thousands of indigenous educators...

RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand. La'aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland...

Pacific Media University of the South Pacific's Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr...

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse,...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian author whose award-winning book about Israel's military and surveillance industry has swept the world is scathing about a controversial Gaza...

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist "Political and ego manoeuvring" is happening behind the scenes at COP30 in Brazil, as Australia and Türkiye wrestle to...

Bob Howarth 6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Palau's leader says the world needs to be working toward reducing emissions and "not dropping targets", in response to...

As the world contemplates action over climate crisis at COP30 in Brazil, author Saige England writes that we need to recognise that we don’t...

Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace has heralded the Cook Islands delay on a decision over whether seabed mining can go ahead until at least 2032 as...

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese talks to journalist Chris Hedges about her new report that examines how 60+ countries are complicit in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Vince Angelo Ferreras in Daet, Philippines Several barangays in Camarines Norte were heavily battered by the powerful winds and rains from Typhoon Uwan --...

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...

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...

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...

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,...