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By RNZ News A New Zealand covid-19 community case identified in Auckland today had called in sick to work after being tested but went to...

By RNZ Pacific The capital island of Vanuatu - Efate - is closed off today after the country's first case of covid-19 was announced yesterday. Stricter...

By Simon Smith A comprehensive new report by The Aotearoa Circle' s Sustainable Finance Forum looks at how New Zealand can reform its financial...

By RNZ Pacific Guam has suffered its 90th covid-related death with the US Pacific territory now recording 5233 cases. The Pacific Daily News today reported 249...

By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland US President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement is “fresh air” news for Pacific Islands countries, say...

ANALYSIS: By Christian Downie, Australian National University When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is important for New Zealand to have tight connections with the US on big global issues...

By Anya Imandin, AUT News Auckland University of Technology director of diversity Professor Edwina Pio has made a presentation on diversity and the media to...

By Alya Nurbaiti in Jakarta and Benny Mawel in Jayapura Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers reportedly attacked and arrested civilians at a dormitory and nearby houses...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Joe Biden is almost certain to be the next president of the United States, ushering in a welcome return to engagement...

OPINION: By Crosbie Walsh As Aotearoa New Zealand waited for the election special votes results there was no talk of violence in the streets or...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two former New Zealand prime ministers have called for an end to polarisation and the need for "healing" as the US...

ANALYSIS: By Sarah John, Flinders University Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential...

By the Marshall Islands Journal The first-ever covid-positive case in quarantine at Kwajalein and the arrival of the first group of 27 Marshall Islanders being...

ANALYSIS: By Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne Joe Biden is now poised to win the US presidency. The mail-in votes in Wisconsin and Michigan have...

ANALYSIS: By Jennifer S. Hunt, Australian National University It has been billed as the most significant US election in generations, and with nearly 100 million...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University Jacinda Ardern’s new “covid cabinet” is pretty much the same as — and completely unlike — every previous...

By Jane Patterson, RNZ Political Editor The bolt out of the blue in New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's new cabinet is Nanaia Mahuta as...

By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Despite increasing calls this week from community and political leaders to keep the Marshall...

COMMENTARY: By My Land, My Country The Post-Courier newspaper says a company, Niugini BioMed Ltd, set up just a month ago, will be be commissioned...

OPINION: By Nik Dirga I conducted a highly scientific study among a handful of my Facebook friends back home in America this week, asking them...

By Priestley Habru in Honiara A Pacific-wide maritime surveillance operation this week discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters. The Pacific Islands Forum Agency...