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Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky...
ANALYSIS: By Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong
President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his...
Tahiti’s covid-19 death tally rises to 122 – 17,000 plus cases
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has recorded another covid-19 death, raising the pandemic's tally to 122.
There are 46 people with covid-19 in hospital, 21 of...
Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches
By RNZ News
A cyber security expert says attacks like the latest on the Reserve Bank could be due to the type of data systems...
Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back...
ANALYSIS: By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University
Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However,...
Covid-19: UK variant raises risk of NZ community transmission, says expert
By RNZ News
New Zealand faces an increased risk of community transmission from the UK strain of covid-19 that is now arriving in the country,...
A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations...
Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill
By RNZ Pacific
The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress.
In...
Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to...
Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait...
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
Amid the chaos in the US Capitol, stoked largely by rhetoric from President Donald Trump, Twitter has...
‘They’re trying to tear down the country’, says US expat in...
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter
American expats are feeling grateful to be living in Aotearoa after watching the chaos and violence unfold at the...
‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming...
ANALYSIS: By David Smith, University of Sydney
After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential...
PNG Prime Minister Marape visits Saki landslide disaster site
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has visited Goilala’s remote Saki village near Tolukuma gold mine in the Goilala district...
Are US and Iran headed for a military showdown before Trump...
ANALYSIS: By Clive Williams, Australian National University
Tensions are running high in the Middle East in the waning days of the Trump administration.
Over the weekend,...
China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...
ANALYSIS: By James Laurenceson, University of Technology Sydney
Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years. But covid-19 has turbo-charged the...
Covid-19 ‘might get more intense’ across world in coming weeks, warns...
By RNZ News
The new covid-19 variant found in the UK is set to become more prevalent across the world due to its more transmissible...
Waikeria Prison protesters surrender to NZ authorities after 6-day siege
By RNZ News
The 16 protesters at Waikeria Prison have surrendered to authorities after a six-day stand-off.
The news that the men had ended the stand-off...
Amnesty calls for caution in ending NZ’s Waikeria prison protest
By RNZ News
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand's Corrections Minister to ensure force is not used to end the impasse at Waikeria Prison...
PNG authorities slammed over ‘lack of control’ on alluvial mining
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
A concerned Papua New Guinean woman leader and NGO activist, Matilda Koma, has called on the Central provincial government...
At the heart of the Goilala landslide disaster – prayers for the...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Central Governor Robert Agorobe at Saki, Papua New Guinea
It was with a heavy heart when we flew into the landslide disaster...
RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive...
New Year’s Honours: Former boxing champion among 13 Pacific recipients
By RNZ Pacific
Playwrights, teachers, reverends, advocates, athletes and a former boxer are among the 13 Pacific people who have received New Year's Honours, a...
Bad weather hampers PNG landslide relief – two bodies found,...
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
Bad weather has delayed the second relief supplies drop to Papua New Guinea's landslide victims at Saki village near...