Yearly Archives: 2026

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says that the Indonesian government is silencing environmental activists and journalists in...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Wednesday: The United States signs a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. A “decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership,” Washington calls it. Thursday: The President...

Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed...

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In a secret vote on July 24, the member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Chief Prosecutor...

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand national solidarity group for Palestine has condemned plans by Nauru to open an embassy in Jerusalem as an "alarming...

By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or...

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji's former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either...

INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle In this interview with Reza Nazar Ahari, the Iranian Ambassador to Wellington, we discussed the war, the state of diplomacy with...

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has condemned the latest Israeli assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, where...

RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean “If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.” That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent...

RNZ Pacific reporters Vanuatu's government has issued a stinging rebuke to the country's customary leaders who have reportedly called for revoking the appointment of the...

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this...

Last week a packed meeting in Lyttelton denounced the takeover attempt by DP World of the Lyttelton Port. This is a local, regional, national,...

Asia Pacific Report The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre has strongly condemned a reported "ultimatum" from the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs demanding that the appointment...

By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific Nauru's government has announced plans to set up an embassy in Israel. The government said Cabinet had endorsed the deployment...

COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding...

By Dwight de Leon in Manila Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag says the agency is still in the process of investigating...

BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying...

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji’s universities have been criticised for failing to study the long-term effects of the country’s repeated political upheavals on the...