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US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region
RNZ Pacific
United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will "significantly deepen" its...
Indonesia sues PNG for K105m over storage of ‘illegal’ oil shipments
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
The Indonesian government has filed a K105.6 million (US$30 million) writ against Papua New Guinea, naming two senior officials...
Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue,...
RNZ News
Addressing media on developments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says making sure the region is investing now...
Pacific Islands Forum ‘on course’ as China issue casts shadow
By Wata Shaw in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama opened the 51st Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting yesterday by saying it was setting the...
Empty seats mark first Pacific Islands Forum summit meeting
RNZ Pacific
Seats were glaringly empty at the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva this morning as Pacific leaders sat down to the first formal...
More Pacific Islands Forum summit leaders pull out as crisis grows
RNZ Pacific
The number of leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva, Fiji, has dropped further, with both the president of the Marshall...
Marape first politician re-elected in PNG ballot with landslide win
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Caretaker prime minister James Marape has retained his Tari-Pori seat as the first politician to be...
Kiribati exit from Pacific forum ‘out of order’, says founding president
RNZ Pacific
Kiribati's sudden withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum without wider political discussion by the government is out of order, the country's opposition leader...
Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum a major blow
By the RNZ Pacific editorial team in Suva
The 51st Pacific Forum Leaders (PIF) Meeting starting today has been dealt a major blow after the...
Australian Labor isn’t alone. Parties of the Left are making a...
ANALYSIS: By Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
One aspect of May’s federal election in Australia has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the...
Indonesian official admits new Papua provinces are to ‘counter OPM, exploit...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papua People's Council (MRP) says that a Coordinating Ministry for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs (Kemenko Polhukam) deputy has told...
Vanuatu offers warm welcome to Papuan independence campaigner
RNZ Pacific
The president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua, Benny Wenda, has arrived to a warm welcome in Port Vila from London...
PNG’s capital residents shocked with second deferral of polling day
PNG Post-Courier
Chaos. That is the one word for Papua New Guinea's 2022 national general election.
Unfortunately, the election has descended to that level, and polling...
Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Radio broadcaster Federico "Ding" Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan...
Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as...
By Marjorie Finkeo and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Six suspects, including a woman, have been charged in connection with more than K1 million in...
Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers
PNG Post-Courier
Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were...
Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta
RNZ Pacific
Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio will attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta's stead as she recovers from covid-19.
In...
PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed reports his eldest son is one of two men arrested in relation to a...
Tahitian pro-independence MP slams ‘bad signal’ for French Pacific
RNZ Pacific
France's abolition of the status of an overseas minister has received mixed reactions in both France and its overseas territories, with a pro-independence...
Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing...
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea went to the polls yesterday to begin electing the 11th national Parliament only to find out...
PNG Defence Force arrive in New Ireland for election duties
Inside PNG News
Forty-Two Papua New Guinea Defence Force staff have arrived in Kavieng for the national general election operations.
New Ireland Provincial Police Commander Chief...
New Caledonia’s Backès joins French government in citizenship post
RNZ Pacific
The president of New Caledonia's Southern Province Sonia Backès has been given a post in France's reshuffled and enlarged 42-member government.
The prime minister...