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Stranded New Zealanders still hope for India flights – two new...
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealanders left behind in India are asking for additional repatriation flights to evacuate them, after the government did not have enough...
WHO’s exclusion of Taiwan endangers global coronavirus fight, says Palau
By Bernadette Carreon, RNZ Pacific Palau correspondent
Palau's President says the World Health Organisation's neglect of Taiwan has endangered, not only Taiwanese, but people everywhere.
In...
Six new NZ coronavirus cases and one further death reported
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday - and one further death in the...
Spike in PNG coronavirus cases expected this month
A clip from the SOE Controller's media conference. Video: EMTV News
By EMTV News
Papua New Guinea expects a spike of covid-19 cases this month -...
MPs’ questioning of NZ legal iwi checkpoints ‘really is racism’
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi reporter of RNZ News
Community checkpoints have garnered support from New Zealand local councils, police and hundreds of...
Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of coronavirus
By Basten Gokkon of Mongabay
Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown in an attempt to minimise the...
Jobless immigrants face exploitation, poverty due to virus, says NZ adviser
By RNZ News
An immigration consultant is warning an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants.
About...
Xanana Gusmão opposes extending state of emergency in Timor-Leste
By António Sampaio in Dili
Xanana Gusmão, president of the second largest Timorese party, has criticised the decision to extend Timor-Leste's state of emergency, considering...
NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO
By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...
Governments knew a pandemic was a threat – why were they...
By Chris Tyler of UCL and Peter Gluckman of Koi Tū
Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job...
NZ hailed for ‘winning battle’ over covid-19 – but the war...
By Jo Moir, political reporter of RNZ News
New Zealand's Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has had to walk back comments made by...
How might coronavirus change Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’?
ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain of Griffith University
Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted countries and governments to become increasingly inward-looking. Australia is...
High Indonesian smoking rate factor in highest coronavirus death rate
By Natasia Christy Wahyuni in Jakarta
Indonesia currently has the highest covid-19 coronavirus mortality rate in Asia - between 8–9 percent - owing to its...
Long queues for takeaways as many NZers return to work after...
By RNZ News
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders are returning to work today under eased level 3 restrictions - and some are queuing in...
NZ lockdown – day 33: One new case, but one further...
New Zealand has just one new confirmed case of covid-19 coronavirus, and four new probable cases, the Health Ministry has revealed. But Director-General of...
Off-label drugs may now be used in Philippines coronavirus trials
Pacific Media Centre
Off-label drugs may now be used in clinical trials in the Philippines to test possible cures for the coronavirus, pandemic, the Department...
A media tribute to Fiji’s late former PM Laisenia Qarase
By Anish Chand in Suva
Political leaders are known to beat around the bush when it comes to answering serious topics and when faced with...
NZ lockdown – day 32: Nine more cases, no new deaths
By RNZ News
New Zealand has identified another nine cases of the covid-19 coronavirus, but no new deaths.
The new cases include four confirmed and five...
NZ lockdown – day 31: University’s room fees challenged –...
By RNZ News
A New Zealand university is asking students to pay a "placeholder fee" for rooms in its halls of residence during the covid-19...
New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day under lockdown rules
By RNZ News
New Zealanders are commemorating Anzac Day all around the country in an unique way today.
Services around the country have been shelved and...
NZ lockdown – day 30: Five new cases of coronavirus, one...
By RNZ News
Five new cases of covid-19 have been reported in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, with one more death linked to...
Ngāi Tahu job cuts a ‘horror story’ for NZ’s Queenstown tourism
By Tess Brunton, tourism reporter of RNZ News
The mayor of Queenstown Lakes has described plans to cut hundreds of tourism jobs as a horror...