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By RNZ News It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for covid-19 coronavirus is widely available, says former New...

By Robert Baird in Dili Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say...

By Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko in Jakarta/Bandung/Blitar/Semarang Indonesia’s most populous island of Java has become the country’s epicentre of the...

By RNZ Pacific A High Court judge in Fiji has thrown out fines handed to 49 people who were caught breaching curfew or social gathering...

COMMENT: By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea The primary weapon of choice for Papua New Guinea tribes spread out over the Upper Watut...

By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...

By EMTV Online The PNG Defence Force has handed over three suspects for the killing of police Senior Inspector Andrew Tovere to the investigating police. Assistant...

COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji. Today is the...

By RNZ News The state of emergency across New Zealand has been lifted on the eve of alert level 2 - putting the country in...

Pacific Media Centre TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating...

By Katie Scotcher, reporter for RNZ News A New Zealand doctors' union fears the Waitematā District Health Board is covering up mistakes that led to...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji has put its hand up to join New Zealand and Australia's travel bubble amid the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, New Zealand...

ANALYSIS: By Vissia Ita Yulianto of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Jian-bang Deng of Tamkang University Before the covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, the...

By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National and Supreme Court sittings in Waigani, NCD, resumed under the “new normal” yesterday - no...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and...

By Kris Gledhill of Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether...

Pacific Media Watch Well into the alert level 3 phase of New Zealand's covid-19 coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and today’s weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported another two new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the global coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Health has revealed. There...

REVIEW: By Jeremy Rees After 81 years of publication, The NZ Listener, one of the Bauer Media stable of publications, closed last month when the...

By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, Māori affairs correspondent of RNZ News There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for the covid-19 coronavirus...

By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the...

By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first...