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By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji's Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South...

Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila on the attack on academic freedom. Video: Al Jazeera Teachers and students in the Philippines are angry over the decision...

By Jina Amba in Port Moresby The University of PNG has clarified that Papua New Guinea's higher education loan programme (Help) is administered by a...

By RNZ Pacific Micronesian leaders are to meet today to agree on a united response to the snub of their preferred candidate as Pacific Islands...

By Samisoni Pareti in Suva Documents tabled at last week's special council meeting of the University of the South Pacific suggest that plans to amend...

OPEN LETTER: By USP staff, alumni and students Vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia has only been at the University of the South Pacific (USP) for three...

The politics of divide and rule and how Indonesia's attempt to separate indigenous Papuans is an irrational and unrealistic proposal that will damage the...

By Michael Field When the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, was hauled out of his Suva, Fiji, home this week and...

SPECIAL REPORT: Koro Vaka'uta, an RNZ Pacific journalist, reports on a Māori-Pasifika culture shift in Aotearoa New Zealand as the country today marks 181...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Pryke in Sydney After a divisive marathon meeting into the early hours of Thursday, Pacific leaders have emerged with a new Secretary-General...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Pacific Islands Forum chair Kausea Natano has described the University of the South Pacific as a "shining example of regionalism" and...

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne Both coverage in the Asian press and statements by neighbouring Asian governments reported in the media on the grabbing of exclusive...

By PACNEWS/ABC The deported head of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, says his expulsion from Fiji is “a classic case of...

By RNZ News A senior academic staff member at the Auckland University of Technology wants the vice-chancellor to resign following a scathing report into bullying. The...

By RNZ Pacific A coalition government in New Caledonia has collapsed after indigenous pro-independence politicians resigned, citing persistent economic issues and unrest over the sale...

By RNZ Pacific Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna has been narrowly elected as the new secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum after a...

By Māni Dunlop, RNZ News Māori News Director New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal has heard the voices of Māori women have been marginalised for far too...

By RNZ News New Zealand's medicines regulator Medsafe has provisionally approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against covid-19, with certain conditions placed on the company. In its assessment...

ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission this week released its long-anticipated advice to the...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Today was an extraordinary birthday for Tahiti's Mama Tini, as she is known locally - she turned 100. Emma Temaiana-Tehaamatai celebrated her...

By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta Jakarta Indonesian Doctor's Association (IDI) chairperson Slamet Budiarto has challenged a statement by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who has claimed that...

By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has instructed schools to enrol all children who turn up for the...