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French human rights body warns over ‘colonial reality’ before key Pacific...
Caledonia TV's report on the recent indigenous Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) conference on a "post-independence" future for New Caledonia. Video: NCI TV...
PNG to host first Pacific APEC – but is it leaders’...
RNZ's Insight visits Papua New Guinea, which is due to host an APEC Leaders Summit next month. Video: RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea is about...
Rabuka acquitted on assets charge, free to contest 2018 general election
By Litia Cava in Suva
Former Prime Minister and Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka is now sure to contest the 2018 general...
AUT staff withhold marks in strike for better pay and living...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Union members at Auckland University of Technology are withholding marks for two weeks after voting overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike...
Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms
By Nic Maclellan in Ponerihouen, New Caledonia
In a show of support for the Kanak independence movement, Maohi leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru has joined the...
NZ Law Society elects first Pasifika woman as president in ‘sea...
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi Reporter of RNZ Pacific
The New Zealand Law Society has elected its first-ever president of Pacific Island descent...
Vanuatu student journalist launches first poetry collection and aims higher
By Harrison Selmen in Suva, Fiji
Vanuatu student journalist Telstar Jimmy launched her first poetry book in Fiji last week and vows bigger plans ahead...
Bougainville voters need to present unified front, says Momis
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The people of Bougainville should present a unified front at the dawn of the referendum to secure a viable option of...
Gallery: Pacific student journalists show their stuff on USP awards night
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Student journalists have celebrated the end of the academic year with their 18th annual awards at the University if the South...
Canberra raises glimmer of hope for New Zealand deal on refugees
By Michelle Grattan in Canberra
The Morrison government has sent qualified signals that it might agree to some refugees from Nauru being settled in New...
PNG government faces mounting pressure over Maseratis splurge
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's government is under mounting pressure to account for a purchase of 40 luxury vehicles for next...
O’Neill replies on Maseratis, shuns ‘racist’ critic as opponents call strike
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Papua New Guinean government will not spend any money on the purchase of 40 Maserati luxury sedans to...
Paga Hill iconic human rights film banned from PNG festival
A Frontline Insight item about Joe Moses and the Paga Hill struggle for justice in Papua New Guinea. Video: Reuters Foundation
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An...
Police shut down Bali people’s global conference against World Bank
By Rio Apinino in Denpasar, Bali
Indonesian police have closed down the Peoples' Global Conference Against the IMF-World Bank which should have opened earlier today...
Media prize a ‘defeat’ for Australian refugee censorship, says author
By RNZ Pacific
A refugee journalist detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island says winning an Italian award for investigative journalism could end censorship of...
To conserve West Papua, start with land rights and forget past...
ANALYSIS: By Bernadinus Steni and Daniel Nepstad
Large landscapes of intact tropical forests will figure prominently in global strategies to avert catastrophic climate change and...
Japan’s Kasai nominated as Western Pacific’s next WHO regional director
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Japan's candidate, Dr Takeshi Kasai, has been elected as the next World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
Health...
VP’s camp defers to Duterte over his health disclosure – ‘he...
By Lian Buan in Manila
The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo is keen on pushing for the public disclosure of President Rodrigo Duterte’s state...
‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says...
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home...
Palu quake and tsunami sweeps away key Indonesian human rights activism
ANALYSIS: By Dr Vannessa Hearman
When the earthquake and tsunami hit the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, last weekend, they not only brought wreckage and...
24 Pacific students gain special climate change resilience training
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Twenty four students attended face-to-face training sessions in Suva last week as the final step of an intensive 16-week training programme...
Loss of MSF mental health carers from Nauru heightens fears for...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Health and human rights advocates fear the mental ill-health of refugees on Nauru could worsen following the Pacific government's move to...