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Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Solomon Islands police have arrested more than 100 suspects as Honiara townspeople clean up after three days of rioting and looting...
Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has announced that he is filing a notice of a vote of no confidence...
Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building
RNZ Pacific
Police in Honiara have confirmed that three bodies have been found in one of the burnt out buildings in Chinatown after the rioting...
Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital
RNZ Pacific
The Governor General of Solomon Islands has declared a nightly curfew in the troubled capital Honiara, after a third day of looting and...
Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel
RNZ Pacific
Police in Solomon Islands were overrun as rioters and looters tore through the capital Honiara.
RNZ Pacific correspondent in Honiara, Elizabeth Osifelo, said exhausted...
Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
A defiant Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has vowed tonight that he will not resign and will defend Solomon Islands democracy...
Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion
ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau
The riots in Honiara yesterday, disturbing the city’s normally quiet atmosphere, were unexpected but not surprising.
Someone made reference to a possible...
Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest
RNZ Pacific
A police station and several shops were set on fire by looters in Solomon Islands today after what started in the morning as...
NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light...
RNZ News
New Zealand's most restrictive border controls will be eased early next year, the government announced today.
Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand would not be...
NZ must help Pacific fight vaccine misinformation, says researcher
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...
Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of...
ANALYSIS: By Matheson Russell, University of Auckland
The news last week that University of Auckland public health researcher Dr Simon Thornley was retracting a co-authored...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 2: WS storytelling in more detail
In part one of my article on White Supremacy (WS), I articulated some of the...
Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark chides global pandemic ‘failures’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the global handling of the covid-19 pandemic is marred with failures, gaps and delays.
Clark is...
Undercover narcotics team seizes drugs, illegal guns in PNG hotel
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
An inter-agency team working with Australian and American investigators has busted a drug laboratory operating in a Papua New...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 1: Divide and rule with Māori and Pacific communities
White Supremacy (WS) has proliferated during covid-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa from 17...
‘Hard truth’ about NZ’s delta as PM ushers in covid traffic...
RNZ News
New Zealand will move into the covid-19 traffic light system at 11.59pm, Thursday, December 2, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today.
That is in...
Covid disinformation and extremism are on the rise in New Zealand....
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The covid protest outside Parliament earlier this month served as a warning that Aotearoa New Zealand is not...
Prayer events to mark 60 years since West Papuan ‘birth’ in...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans will peacefully mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of West Papua next week -- on Wednesday, December 1.
It...
NZ reports 149 community covid cases as virus still spreads
RNZ News
New Zealand has reported 149 community cases of covid-19 in the country today, including nine outside Auckland.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health...
13 years of Indonesian harassment, but KNPB’s ‘spirit remains unbroken’
Suara Papua in Jayapura
"Since it was first established on November 19, 2008, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has always been confronted by many...
No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story
ANALYSIS: By ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki
As in 2008, 2010 and 2014, none of the female candidates standing in Tonga’s 2021 general election this week have been...
Vanuatu backs Kanak call to delay vote on independence in New...
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's leader is formally supporting the demand of Kanaks in New Caledonia for a delay in next month's third and final referendum on...