APR editor
Iwi Chairs forum urges covid cap on NZ-bound travel, faster vaccine...
By Te Aorewa Rolleston, RNZ News Te Ao Māori affairs
The National iwi chairs forum has put forward six recommendations to the New Zealand government...
Billy Te Kahika spreads covid-19 misinformation at Parliament rally
By RNZ News
A ragtag group of about 150 people gathered on the New Zealand Parliament's forecourt today to demand an end to covid-19 lockdowns.
The...
With covid-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border...
ANALYSIS: By Nick Wilson, University of Otago and Michael Baker, University of Otago
The global covid-19 pandemic is intensifying, with more infectious variants of the...
Netherlands adds voice to global demands for UN visit to West...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesia's former coloniser, the Netherlands, has become the 83rd international state calling for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to...
NZ plans to allow 1000 overseas students into the country
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government will allow 1000 foreign students to enter the country from April as part of the recovery plan for...
Did sense of betrayal lead Tonga’s Fā’otusia to miss confidence vote?
ANALYSIS: By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Was Tonga's Hon. Vuna Fā’otusia betrayed by his close friends from the nobility and cabinet while being...
Papuan landowner advocate condemns diocese link to palm oil companies
By Ans K in Merauke, Papua
Mama Elisabeth Ndiwaen, one of the Papuan landowners who has been strongly critical of highlighting oil palm investment in...
NZ’s latest covid measures branded as both too strong and too...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
The New Zealand government is feeling the pressure from all sides on covid-19 with critics calling the...
Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky...
ANALYSIS: By Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong
President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his...
Tahiti’s covid-19 death tally rises to 122 – 17,000 plus cases
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has recorded another covid-19 death, raising the pandemic's tally to 122.
There are 46 people with covid-19 in hospital, 21 of...
Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches
By RNZ News
A cyber security expert says attacks like the latest on the Reserve Bank could be due to the type of data systems...
Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back...
ANALYSIS: By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University
Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However,...
Covid-19: UK variant raises risk of NZ community transmission, says expert
By RNZ News
New Zealand faces an increased risk of community transmission from the UK strain of covid-19 that is now arriving in the country,...
A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations...
Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill
By RNZ Pacific
The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress.
In...
Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to...
Social media giants have finally confronted Trump’s lies. But why wait...
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
Amid the chaos in the US Capitol, stoked largely by rhetoric from President Donald Trump, Twitter has...
‘They’re trying to tear down the country’, says US expat in...
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter
American expats are feeling grateful to be living in Aotearoa after watching the chaos and violence unfold at the...
‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming...
ANALYSIS: By David Smith, University of Sydney
After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential...
PNG Prime Minister Marape visits Saki landslide disaster site
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has visited Goilala’s remote Saki village near Tolukuma gold mine in the Goilala district...
Are US and Iran headed for a military showdown before Trump...
ANALYSIS: By Clive Williams, Australian National University
Tensions are running high in the Middle East in the waning days of the Trump administration.
Over the weekend,...
China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...
ANALYSIS: By James Laurenceson, University of Technology Sydney
Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years. But covid-19 has turbo-charged the...