Yearly Archives: 2025

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...

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Fiji cannot compete with Australia and New Zealand to retain its teachers, the man in charge of the...

RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news...

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in...

Pacific Media Watch Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie was honoured with Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) at the weekend by...

Samoan-Kiwi filmmaker Tuki Laumea checks in with indigenous communities in 10 Pacific nations for a new Al Jazeera documentary series, reports RNZ Saturday Morning. RNZ...

RNZ Pacific A public health expert is urging anyone travelling to places in the Pacific with a current dengue fever outbreak to be vigilant and...

Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist's handiwork in Auckland's Takutai Square today to condemn Israel's starvation as...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one...

Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa's most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism...

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Funding for New Zealand's Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) is set to be reduced by almost $36 million in...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa's criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged...

By Patrick Muuh in Port Moresby Journalists in Papua New Guinea are likely to face legal threats as powerful individuals and companies use court actions...