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Pacific, EU launch landmark ‘blue green’ climate alliance
RNZ Pacific
Pacific and European Union negotiators have launched the Blue Green Alliance at the COP26 Conference of Parties' climate summit in Glasgow.
The EU's Ambassador...
NZ reports record 206 new community covid cases – vaccinations top...
RNZ News
A record 206 new community cases of covid-19 were reported in New Zealand today, as the total number of vaccinations in this country...
Almost K6m COP26 bill for PNG climate delegation shocks nation
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea -- a country faced with a depressed economy and its public health system on the brink of total collapse due...
Tonga’s first covid case tests ‘weak positive’ again after negative
Kaniva Tonga
Tonga’s only suspected covid-19 case has tested positive when he took his third test today in Nuku’alofa.
The latest result came after the person...
Second person isolating at home in NZ dies – 163 new...
RNZ News
A second person with covid-19 who was isolating at home has died in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.
In this afternoon's...
‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26
By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Critics in Fiji are concerned about climate change hypocrisy at the COP26 Leaders Summit this week. Fiji Times contributor...
West Papuans pledge to make ‘ecocide’ serious crime in key global...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papua indigenous independence leaders today launched "Green State Vision" at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, pledging to take decisive...
Respect the right to report on the environment, RSF tells COP26
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and more than 60 environmental journalists of 34 different nationalities have appealed for respect for the right...
Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in...
By Charles Moi in Port Moresby
Employees of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) have challenged the legality of the “no jab, no job” policy...
NZ reports 139 new community covid cases – 64 in hospital
RNZ News
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 139 new community cases of covid-19 today, with 64 people now in hospital with the coronavirus.
In...
Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia is accused of using "diplomatic strong-arm tactics" to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and "buy silence" on climate...
New USP research paper explores journalism culture in the region
By Pita Ligaiula in Suva
What are the views of Pacific journalists on professional ethical issues and what pressures affect their work? What is the...
NZ anti-vaxxers foil PM Ardern’s planned clinic media briefing
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not turn up to a planned New Zealand media event at a vaccination clinic in Whanganui today where...
NZ person with covid-19 isolating at home found dead in Auckland
RNZ News
A person with covid-19 self isolating in New Zealand has been found dead.
The person was found dead in Auckland by a family member...
‘We’ve done our part’ to ward off a ‘hellish future’, says...
By Talebula Kate
Fiji has done its part in the fight against climate change by pushing for the first international accord to include the 1.5-degree...
Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics
By Carmella Gware in Lae
Urban clinics in Papua New Guinea's second city Lae have closed for an indefinite period following attacks on health workers.
Anti-vaxxers...
COP26: New Zealand’s new climate pledge is a step up, but...
ANALYSIS: By Robert McLachlan, Massey University
As the Glasgow climate summits gets underway, New Zealand’s government has announced a revised pledge, with a headline figure...
PM Jacinda Ardern moves covid media conference after conspiracy heckling
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand government wants to lift vaccination rates and wants to remove anything that is a barrier...
Pasifika climate activist’s cry to COP: ‘We’re not drowning, we’re fighting’
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
A New Zealand Pasifika climate activist has told the UN climate meeting that young Pacific people are not...
PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake...
By Marysilla Kellerton in Port Moresby
Demonstrators gathered in Port Moresby yesterday for a march to Parliament in protest over the covid-19 vaccines, which they...
‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26
Māori climate activist India Logan-Riley speaking on the indigenous challenge to the "colonial project" at the COP26 opening ... “In the US and Canada...
NZ pandemic restrictions easing, but snap lockdown for Tonga
RNZ News
New Zealand's cabinet has decided to ease restrictions for some, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says cases may peak this month at 200 a...