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Fiji government accused of ‘losing plot’ as covid cases soar past...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has accused the Fiji government of "losing the plot" and "meekly surrendering" its...
Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Pacific regional civil society groups claim that DeepGreen, a venture capitalist company, has started "the clock ticking" with little regard for...
Pleas for Fijians to take covid-19 more seriously with 274 more...
RNZ Pacific
Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed 274 infections of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am today as they have warned people...
Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by...
NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury
New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which...
Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases
RNZ Pacific
Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday.
The Health Ministry said...
From Wellington to South Sudan: Capturing marginalised stories
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Robin Hammond recently made a visit to the Wellington campus of Massey University to meet with his...
PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the...
Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors...
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday.
Health...
Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize
Otago University News
Retired foundation director of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Kevin Clements has been awarded the International Studies Association’s...
Fears of covid-19 ‘time bomb’ of sorcery accusations, violence in PNG
SPECIAL REPORT: RNZ Pacific
WARNING: This article contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing.
Unexplained deaths spark sorcery claims, torture and murder, as fears...
Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation
Facebook News
Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and...
Papuans protest over draconian bid by Jakarta to replace Governor Enembe
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Indonesia's most troubled province of Papua is become embroiled in another mass demonstration with protesters barricading provincial government buildings and...
Samoa’s Supreme Court declares Parliament must sit within week
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Supreme Court has ruled that the FAST party's swearing in at Parliament last month was illegal.
But it has also ruled that Parliament...
PNG Power chief Bekker resigns after nine months in job –...
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
PNG Power Limited managing director Flagon Bekker resigned over the weekend citing family issues after serving the Papua New...
‘Don’t trust Indonesian military,’ says OPM warning civilians to leave conflict
IndoLeft News
The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation (TPNPB-OPM) has warned the Papuan people not to trust that the TNI (Indonesian military) and...
Yellow lighting, ribbons display across Philippines in honour of Aquino
Rappler reporters
Filipinos honoured the late Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III by lighting buildings up in yellow, tying yellow ribbons around trees and lamp...
Fiji police arrest six teenagers among 56 caught in covid curfew...
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Six teenagers were among 56 people arrested by Fiji police in the past 24 hrs for failure to comply with...
Covid-19: ‘We’re not in the clear yet’, epidemiologist warns NZ
RNZ News
It will take a few more days before New Zealand can be said to have dodged a bullet over the latest covid-19 scare,...
Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare
By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands
Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on...
RSF’s Apple Daily ‘funeral protests’ mark risk of death of free...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has staged parallel protests outside the Chinese embassies in Paris and Berlin, holding funeral-style processions to denounce...
Samoa’s FAST gets Appeal Court election clarification it wanted
RNZ Pacific
The Court of Appeal in Samoa says its ruling from June 2 on the sixth women's seat cannot be used to delay the...