Yearly Archives: 2025

A My Lai massacre display in the Vietnam War Remnants Museum

Part one of a three-part series: On the courage to remember COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The first demonstration I ever went on was at the age...
A school bombed out by Israeli forces provides some shelter to a family in Khan Younis, Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim Palestinians have always been passionate about learning. During the Ottoman era, Palestinian students travelled to Istanbul, Cairo, and Beirut to pursue...

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed...
Palestinian singer and creative visualiser Rana Hamida speaking at the vigil on Easter Saturday

Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand's largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of...
South Vietnamese torture "tiger cages" against the Viet Cong at the War Remnants Museum on Ho Chi Minh City

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...
Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including...
UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last...
Pro-Palestinian protesters picket New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT)

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel...
Palestinians march in protest today over the thousands of prisoners being held in Israeli jails

Asia Pacific Report A researcher says the Israeli prison system aims to subjugate the Palestinian people as rallies across the West Bank marked Prisoners' Day...
Women make up a large portion of the journalism profession

Shrinking budgets and job insecurity means there are fewer opportunities for young journalists, and that's bad news, especially in regional Australia, reports 360info ANALYSIS: By...
Fiji Defence Minister Pio Tikoduadua

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week "official travel overseas"...
Maldives President Dr Mohamed Muizzu

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand...
Part of the "inclusiveness" wall at Marshall Islands High School

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has survived a motion of no confidence against him in Parliament. During the...
The colonnaded Widener Library looks out over Tercentenary Theatre at the heart of Harvard’s campus.

Asia Pacific Report Former US President Barack Obama has taken to social media to praise Harvard’s decision to stand up for academic freedom by rebuffing...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his delegation in Hawai'i

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist in Hawai'i New Zealand's Pacific connection with the United States is "more important than ever", says Foreign Affairs Minister...
Australian protesters highlight university hypocrisy over the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Hundreds of university staff and students in Melbourne and Sydney called on their vice-chancellors to cancel pro-Israel events earlier this month, write Michael West...
All of New Caledonia’s political parties engaged in a video conference with French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A leaked "working paper" on New Caledonia's future political status is causing concern on the local...
"Our keffiyeh is part of our national dress."

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab “Wherever Palestinians have control is barbaric.” These were the words from New Zealand’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow. During a meeting...
As a low-lying atoll nation, Tuvalu is particularly exposed

ANALYSIS: By Jane McAdam, UNSW Sydney The details of a new visa enabling Tuvaluan citizens to permanently migrate to Australia were released this week. The visa...
New Zealand protesters condemning Israel's attacks on hospitals and medical workers at a weekend Palestinian solidarity rally

Asia Pacific Report The Baptist Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East has condemned Israeli's Palm Sunday attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the last functioning...
Tunnels have been present in the besieged Gaza Strip for decades

The New Arab The Israeli military has reportedly only destroyed 25 percent of tunnels used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 2023,...