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NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness
RNZ News
New Zealand's cyber security agency believes China has been behind numerous hack attacks spanning years.
The government joined Western allies and Japan in calling...
‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to...
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura
The West Papuan Council of Churches (WPCC) has condemned the Indonesian government's Special Autonomy (Otsus) law ratified by the Jakarta parliament...
Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry, The Village Explainer
I wasn’t invited to the inaugural Vanuatu media awards a couple of weeks ago. Nor was I asked...
784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded 784 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours to 8am on Monday.
That compares to 1043 cases in the previous...
NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says...
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to...
714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People's Petition (PRP) have rejected last week's...
Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy
RNZ Pacific
Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests.
The...
NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners back Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of...
Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape'ete
Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui's anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā'ohi Lives...
Indonesian lawmakers adopt unpopular bill to reshape Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill that is expected to reshape the future administration...
Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded a daily record 1405 new cases of covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday.
That compares to 1220 cases...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules
RNZ News
Groundswell NZ organised the "Howl of a Protest" in more than 40 towns and cities across New Zealand over recent environmental regulations, the...
Covid delta strain reaches PNG via cargo ship from Indonesia
By Godwin Eki in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has been hit with a positive delta variant case of covid-19 for the first time, Deputy...
Fiji reports 10 more covid deaths – Flying Fijians to wear...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji health authorities have reported an additional 10 deaths from covid-19 over the past week.
In his daily statement on covid-19 cases, Health Secretary...
Samoa Observer: For Tuila’epa, what follows defeat?
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
When Australia’s second-longest ever serving Prime Minister faced a complete wipeout at the national elections after 10 years...
Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to...
ANALYSIS: By Dicky Budiman, Griffith University
Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in covid-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been...
France’s Bastille Day parade takes place in shadow of covid pandemic
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The traditional parade on France's national day returns today after a one-year hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, reports France 24.
European...
Indonesian police tighten covid entry controls in West Papuan districts
By HA Kapisa and Rahmad Nasution in Manokwari, West Papua
Indonesian police have begun tightening entry controls in Manokwari district and Sorong city as part...
NZ imported more than a million tonnes of ‘dirty’ coal last...
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter
In the same year that the government declared a climate emergency, imports of an especially dirty type of coal...
PNG banking regulator acts against BSP over money-laundering rules
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea’s biggest bank -- Bank South Pacific with major branch networks across the Pacific region -- is the subject...
Solomon Islands covid vaccination plan kicks off – delta variant threat
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
The Solomon Islands government has kicked off its full rollout of its nationwide covid vaccination strategy.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said...