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500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security
US Marines arrive in Port Moresby on board USS Green Bay. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 500 US marines and US Navy...
Fiji’s Bainimarama maintains strong poll lead, 618 stations to be counted
By Wansolwara Staff
Caretaker Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has maintained a strong lead early today in Fiji's general election, polling 140,631 votes from 1552 of...
Bainimarama, FijiFirst take strong lead in provisional election count
By Wansolwara Staff
Caretaker Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama took a strong lead in the Fiji general election last night, raking in 55,203 votes from 651...
Tight race in Fiji national election as early provisional results flow...
By Wansolwara Staff
The count is on in the Fiji general election and early indications tonight point to a close race between the opposition Social...
Fiji media blackout extended, fresh polling for closed venues
By Elizabeth Osifelo and Laiseana Nasiga in Suva
The media blackout period in the Fiji general election today has been extended until the closure of...
RNZ Pacific’s Fiji elections live blog
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Bad weather forces Fiji to close 23 polling venues, 7852 voters...
By Wansolwara staff
A total of 7852 voters at more than 20 polling stations will cast their votes at a later date after the Electoral...
Fijians urged to vote after ‘worrying’ turnout in stormy weather
Heavy rain and a flood alert remain in force today as Fiji citizens make their way to polling stations in Lower Ragg, Namadi Heights,...
Fiji security forces on standby as nation ready for voting
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's security forces are standing by in case of unrest as Fiji goes to the polls.
More than 550,000 voters are due to...
Marshall Islands president narrowly survives no-confidence vote
By Giff Johnson in Majuro for RNZ Pacific
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine has survived a vote of no confidence with parliament, the Nitijela, split evenly...
Fiji Elections Office will monitor two-day blackout period
By Litia Cava in Suva
The Fijian Elections Office (FEO) will keep an eye to ensure that the blackout period is respected, says Supervisor of...
‘Victim blaming’ in latest Indonesian uni sex abuse case angers thousands
By Sri Wahyuni and Evi Mariani in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
A leading Indonesian university's initial response to a recent sexual assault case allegedly involving two of...
3 killed in West Papua clashes as military pursue elusive rebel...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
At least three people have been killed in a week of shooting clashes between the Indonesian military and police and militants...
Fiji’s Rabuka not troubled over new police summons as election looms
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji political party leader Sitiveni Rabuka says he is not worried about being called in by police for questioning today.
Rabuka, leader of...
New Caledonia’s timeline of injustice to independence?
Key dates in New Caledonia's colonial history:
1774: James Cook “discovers” Grande Terre island for Europe and renames it New Caledonia because the landscapes remind...
Fiji gender groups welcome 56 women candidates, slam lack of diversity
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Fiji women's coalition has praised the confirmation of 56 female candidates for the 2018 Fiji national elections next week, but...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
New Caledonia on brink of fateful decision – new nation or...
By Stefan Armbruster in Noumea
New Caledonia, a group of picturesque islands in Melanesia that are the closest neighbour to Australia and New Zealand, have...
Scrap workers deal with Saudi Arabia following execution, says Jakarta NGO
By Dian Septiari in Jakarta
The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on Indonesia's Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to...
Bainimarama tops Fiji pre-election poll – but one in 5 voters...
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is polling highly in the latest pre-election poll in Fiji.
But two weeks out from the election, the...
France under fire for ‘manipulated’ ousting of Temaru from Assembly
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence opposition has continued to attack the French government and judiciary for removing its leader Oscar Temaru from the Territorial...
Indonesia sees PNG as a top ‘non-traditional’ market priority for APEC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea has been placed as one of Indonesia’s top non-traditional market priorities as the country leader President Joko Widodo...