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Parkop calls for full probe into brutal murders of two Moresby...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop wants the city’s police to fully investigate the gruesome murder...
Quality of iTaukei language under threat, says Fiji scholar
By Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific
Concerns are being raised about the future survival of the iTaukei (Fijian) language as a threat of extinction looms...
NZ university union members to strike tomorrow over pay demand
RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealand tertiary union members will go on strike at eight universities tomorrow over a cost of living pay demand.
The Tertiary...
Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign...
RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...
Delegates from French Polynesia head to UN decolonisation committee
RNZ Pacific
Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee.
The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru...
Small communities could be buying, selling and saving money on electric...
ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Globally, the...
Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
On the eve of the US Pacific Islands Summit in Washington, a...
Fate of Papua’s Governor Enembe – the ‘son of Koteka’ –...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Alleged corruption involving Governor Lukas Enembe has dominated both Papuan and Indonesian media outlets and social media groups over the...
Petition calls for monarchy to be replaced on New Zealand money
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
A Wellington tauira (scholar) has launched a petition calling for Aotearoa New Zealand's Reserve Bank to replace the...
5 suspects arrested as probe continues into killing of PNG Ports...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police have arrested five men in Goroka over their alleged involvement in the killing of PNG...
Tunoa – house arrest – on Tokelau family ends after more...
RNZ Pacific
The Taupulega, or council, on the Tokelau atoll of Nukunonu, has lifted a house arrest order on a family which had refused to...
$100m apartment complex coming to Manukau – but you’ll have to...
By Stephen Forbes of Local Government Reporting
A new $100 million apartment complex is coming to Manukau -- Auckland's heart of Pacific communities.
But you'll have...
Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’
RNZ Pacific
Mortar demonstrations involving military forces from five nations have taken place in Fiji.
The tactical field training exercise called Exercise Cartwheel was a US...
Slaughter goes on in Porgera mining town as PNG police plan...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
While Papua New Guinean policing continues to be an issue in Porgera, Enga Province, the killings continue in the...
Not over: Young generations wage fight to protect Martial Law memories
Jairo Bolledo in Manila
Karl Patrick Suyat, 19, has no personal experience of the tyrannical rule of late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos. But memories of...
Benny Giay: The reality behind West Papua’s ‘land of peace’ facade
OPEN LETTER: By Reverend Dr Benny Giay
The notion that Papua is the "Land of Peace" has no substance.
Many feel that this phrase "Papua Tanah...
NZ consul hails long-standing ties with New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
The Consul-General of New Zealand for the French Pacific territories, Felicity Roxburgh, says New Zealand's presence in New Caledonia is historical.
She said she...
Tense Goroka town under lockdown after brutal slaying of PNG Ports...
PNG Post-Courier
Goroka town is under lockdown and remains tense as Papua New Guinea police mount a heavy presence following the brutal slaying of the...
PNG Ports chief executive killed in Highlands fight
RNZ Pacific
State-owned PNG Ports chief executive officer Fego Kiniafa has been killed at Nagamiufa in Goroka of Eastern Highlands Province, says Papua New Guinea's...
PNG’s Sir Julius: ‘I shed tears of joy and sadness –...
PNG Post-Courier
The tears came freely as the birth of the new nation of Papua New Guinea was heralded by a new flag -- the...
Jakarta bans Papuan governor Enembe from vital medical treatment trip
SPECIAL REPORT: By Laurens Ikinia
Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has been banned from travelling abroad by the state Directorate General...
‘Not my king’: do we have the right to protest the...
ANALYSIS: By Maria O'Sullivan, Monash University
During the present period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, public sensitivities in the United Kingdom and Australia are...