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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...

Al Jazeera How global power struggles are impacting in local communities, culture and sovereignty in Kanaky, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. In episode one,...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia and French Polynesia have sent strong delegations this week to the United Nations Pacific...

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory. Foreign...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans...

ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell In February 2025, Dr Diana Sarfati resigned, not unexpectedly, as Director-General of Health after only two years into her five-year term. As...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into...

By Vijay Narayan, news editor of Fijivillage News Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The...