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ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems...

COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s...

By Muhammad Shehada Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory's future remains undecided. Leaders from both...

By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist Its official. Samoa's Parliament will be dissolved next week and the country will have an early return to the...

ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put...

Asia Pacific Report Eight people were reported killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombed the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid in the as-Saftawi...

RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...

RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand humanitarian aid for Gaza worth up to $29 million is being blocked by Israel on the border of the besieged...

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Fiji cannot compete with Australia and New Zealand to retain its teachers, the man in charge of the...

RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news...

RNZ Pacific A public health expert is urging anyone travelling to places in the Pacific with a current dengue fever outbreak to be vigilant and...

Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist's handiwork in Auckland's Takutai Square today to condemn Israel's starvation as...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one...

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Funding for New Zealand's Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) is set to be reduced by almost $36 million in...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa's criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands. It comes as...

A forthcoming new edition of David Robie’s Eyes of Fire honours the ship’s final mission and the resilience of those affected by decades of...

We have been handed a long and protracted recession with few signs of growth and prosperity. Budget 2025 signals more of the same, writes...

Asia Pacific Report Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has released a statement saying “the Israeli government cannot allow the suffering to continue” after the UN’s...