APR editor
Spate of PNG covid-19 cases include national pandemic chief
By RNZ News
Papua New Guinea's covid-19 cases have jumped to more than 1000, including the National Pandemic Controller and members of his family.
Eight new...
Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent
Intan Jaya has started Lent with bitter sorrow after losing three young Papuan men alleged to have been...
Fear still marks the trial of a former priest in Timor-Leste...
By António Sampaio in Pante Macassar, Timor-Leste
The fear that has led for years to silence dozens of children, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by...
PNG’s founding father Sir Michael Somare ‘critically ill’, says family
Asia Pacific Report
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, widely regarded as the founding father of independent Papua New Guinea, was in a critical condition in...
Facebook’s Australia ban threatens to leave Pacific without key news source
By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
Facebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and...
Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly...
ANALYSIS: By Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology
Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content....
Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to...
By RNZ News
The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week's change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to...
Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year...
ANALYSIS: By David Welch, University of Auckland; Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago; Joep de Ligt, ESR, and Nigel French, Massey University
New variants of SARS-CoV-2...
Ardern slams Australia for dumping over Turkey ‘terrorist’ detainees
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lashed out at Australia for dumping responsibility for a woman and two young children detained at the...
Papatoetoe High students line up for pop-up tests in NZ covid...
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
Nervous Papatoetoe High School students were lining up today in big numbers to get tested, saying they want...
Family of Papuan pastor killed by TNI agrees to autopsy, with...
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was killed in Intan Jaya, Papua, on September 19 last year has agreed...
Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...
Tuisawau claims Fiji pro-chancellor blocked USP audit probe
By Luke Rawalai in Suva
Opposition parliamentarian Ro Filipe Tuisawau claims University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor Winston Thompson and audit and risk committee deputy...
NZ’s covid-19 community cases: Source of infection ‘big unknown’
By RNZ News
The exact source of Auckland community cases of covid-19 in the latest New Zealand outbreak is the "big unknown" and there could...
The future of USP is at stake – do Australia and...
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal...
Fiji’s actions threaten to unwind the Pacific’s great experiment in regional...
REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne
The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...
Papuans choose NZ’s Waitangi Day to launch new Oceania student group
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland
Indigenous Papuan students who are currently studying in New Zealand and Australia have formed an educational association, choosing Waitangi Day...
Laurens Ikinia: Trash cans and study, a short story of Papuan...
COMMENT: By Laurens Ikinia
The above photo is an image of how I grew up in Papua.
But before I share my story, I would like...
PNG clamps down on ‘cheating teachers’ – 620 deregistered
By Jina Amba in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra says 620 elementary school teachers have been deregistered after it was...
Samoa goes public with bid for USP to move headquarters from...
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
Samoa's prime minister has gone public with his desire to "rehouse" the University of the South Pacific (USP) in...
Deportation a ‘distraction’ from USP’s boom performance, says Ahluwalia
By RNZ Pacific
The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific says booming student enrolments are a vote of confidence in the regional...
Tsunami warning after 7.7 quake off New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands
By RNZ News
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south-east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands and a tsunnami warning is in place for several countries.
Geoscience...