Yearly Archives: 2025

By Ben McKay America's retreat from foreign aid is being felt deeply in Pacific media, where pivotal outlets are being shuttered and journalists work unpaid. The...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk One of seven people transferred to mainland France almost a year ago, following the May 2024...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Maritime Safety Authority has launched an investigation into Goundar Shipping Limited following two incidents involving its vessels. Late last month, one vessel ran...

Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function...

By Scholar Kassas in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinea minister has raised concerns about "serious issues" at the PNG-Indonesia border due to a lack...

RNZ Pacific Samoa's Parliament has been formally dissolved, and an early election is set to take place within three months. After months of political instability and...

Asia Pacific Report An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan pro-independence fighters in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the...

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey -- of living and writing through the Genocide.  Where I live and how I...

ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems...

COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s...

By Muhammad Shehada Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory's future remains undecided. Leaders from both...

Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken...

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist Its official. Samoa's Parliament will be dissolved next week and the country will have an early return to the...

ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put...

Asia Pacific Report Eight people were reported killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombed the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid in the as-Saftawi...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea's state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the government's goal of 100 percent...

RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...

RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand humanitarian aid for Gaza worth up to $29 million is being blocked by Israel on the border of the besieged...

By Stanley Simpson in Suva I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with...