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PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in...
Barbara Dreaver: Cook Islands travel bubble pressure a bid to ‘strong...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific Correspondent
The Cook Islands government's inaccurate and startling announcement yesterday about a tourism bubble opening with New Zealand as...
Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce
The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...
Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers
The AUT video ... first of this year's languags series.
By Simon Smith of AUT News
The Kiribati instalment in the AUT Pacific language video series...
‘Common goal – oust government’, says NZ’s new National leader Collins
By RNZ News
New Zealand's National Party has elected Judith Collins as its new leader to replace Todd Muller, with Gerry Brownlee as her deputy...
Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing
ANALYSIS: By Liam Hehir
The detailed reasons for opposition National Party leader Todd Muller's shock resignation are something we are not yet given to know....
‘Lock them up’, says furious Grey Power over covid isolation escapees
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News
Grey Power is enraged by what it says is the "stupid and dangerous" behaviour of people fleeing managed isolation facilities,...
Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author
From RNZ Saturday Morning
Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade...
National MP Jian Yang, who admitted training Chinese spies, quits politics
By RNZ News
Opposition National list MP Dr Jian Yang has announced his retirement from New Zealand politics and says he will not stand in...
Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...
New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be...
By RNZ News
Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...
‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid...
By RNZ News
The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus.
Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...
Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation...
Police have become political tool under Widodo’s watch, says rights group
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation says there are two problems with the Indonesian police which have developed during the...
Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary
By RNZ Pacific
A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...
Police commissioners in Tonga and the dropped reforms
COMMENTARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga
Where does the responsibility of Tonga's Police Commissioner lie?
Is it to the Police Minister and Cabinet? To the...
‘Fight not over’, says Robredo pushing for safeguards in anti-terror law
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial...
PNG health survey shows 56% of women suffer violence at age...
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of...
Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy...
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News
The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...
200 protest in Auckland as NZ rallies target illegal Israeli land...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 200 people protested in Auckland as demonstrations took place in at least nine New Zealand cities and towns today against...