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Pacific Forum backs ‘constructive engagement’ over West Papua
By Royson Willie in Port Vila
The Pacific Islands Forum has supported "constructive engagement" with Indonesia over "elections and human rights" at this week's leaders...
Malo e lelei! Happy Tongan Language Week
Miriam Asolupe, associate project manager at Auckland War Memorial Museum, gives the lowdown on what Auckland Museum has to offer for Tongan Language Week....
Climate change tops action at Forum in spite of Canberra’s resistance
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Climate change, labour mobility and West Papua are some of the issues that Vanuatu played a key part in discussions during...
NZ welcomes new Boe Pacific security plus climate declaration
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is describing the newly signed Boe Declaration as the most significant statement on regional security by...
Police arrest 45 at Jayapura rally plea for PIF to raise...
Arrested Papuan self-determination protesters in Jayapura this week. Image: Tabloid Jubi
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
Indonesian police have arrested scores of protesters at a demonstration...
Pacific Island leaders tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent
ANALYSIS: The three-hour "detention" of television New Zealand Pacific affairs reporter Barbara Dreaver for "breaking protocols" over interviewing refugees on Nauru. But Josef Benedict...
Pacific Islands Forum masking Nauru human rights abuse, says advocate
By RNZ Pacific
A refugee advocate says behind the scenes of the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru human rights abuses are continuing.
Ian Rintoul from the...
Peters announces NZ$10m boost to fund dedicated Pacific TV channel
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand will spend $NZ10 million in the next three years on a Pasifika television channel for the region.
The Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting...
From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
Nauru hosts the Pacific Islands Forum -- whose membership includes Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific Islands nations -- from...
Nauru faces media, security pressure ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Nauru President Baron Waqa addressing the media before opening the Pacific Islands Forum. Video: PI Forum Secretariat
By Gia Garrick, Political Reporter of RNZ National
Regional...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it...
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...
Plea for PM to be ‘game-changer’ in Pacific support for West...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A New Zealand-based West Papua advocacy group has appealed to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other leaders meeting at the Pacific...
Canberra’s new PM Morrison has little foreign policy, Pacific interest
By Susan Harris Rimmer in Brisbane
With all the focus this week on new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domestic challenges, less attention has been paid...
Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island
EMTV's Madang correspondent Martha Louis reports from Manam island. Video: EMTV
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 5000 people, including children, on Papua New Guinea's Manam...
Nauru refugee camp demolished to hide abuse, says rights advocate
By Benjamin Robinson-Drawbridge of RNZ Pacific
The oldest refugee camp on Nauru is being demolished to hide abusive conditions from the Pacific Islands Forum, an...
Opposition leader calls on Fiji to end ‘betrayal’ of West Papuans
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Fiji's Opposition Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa has called on the government of Fiji to "stop its betrayal" of the people of...
Calls grow for Jokowi to protect Indonesia’s Tapanuli orangutan
By Evi Mariani and Apriadi Gunawan in Jekarta and Medan
Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya paid a visit to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo...
PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation
By Scott Waide in Lae
Madang Governor Peter Yama confirmed today that at least two Papua New Guinea Defence Force vessels were being sent to...
PNG’s Manam volcano erupts again, forcing islanders to evacuate
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted again, reports journalist Scott Waide on his blog.
This is his blog's picture of...
Opposition MP files criminal complaint over PNG election
By RNZ Pacific
A Papua New Guinea opposition MP has filed a criminal complaint against the Electoral Commissioner for alleged misdeeds in last year's general...
Why Papuans feel differently about Indonesia’s Independence Day
By Ivany Atina Arbi and Nethy Dharma Somba in Jakarta and Jayapura
The 73rd celebration of Indonesia’s Independence Day last week was tinged with reports...
Former BRA and BLF fighters break arrows to heal Bougainville wounds
By Aloysius Laukai in Buka
The people of Haku have demonstrated their commitment to the Bougainville peace process by reconciling former fighters from the Bougainville...