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COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand was typically restrained, dignified but crystal clear when he responded to Foreign Minister Winston Peter’s...

By Layla Bailey-McDowell of RNZ New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown breached multiple principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi by approving plans to...

By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific World Rugby has denied reports that it gave Samoa an ultimatum to sort out problems over which body governs...

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi says the country faces suspension by World Rugby today because of "a dirty...

By Jeremy Rose In the run-up to the 1975 New Zealand election, the Labour, National, Social Credit, and Values parties all committed to the target...

COMMENTARY: By Saige England The people won. The environment won. The Lyttelton port remains in public hands. For now. Please join the protest tomorrow. There is...

Asia Pacific Report Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL) has declined to proceed with a controversial proposal to lease operations at the port, the company announced...

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 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...