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By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has been arrested after arriving back in the country. Police say O'Neill was arrested on...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has shared warm greetings as the month of Ramadan ends and has wished the Muslim members...

By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has asked Paris for the referendum on independence from France to be deferred by up to two...

By RNZ News New Zealand's opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges was today dumped by a relative unknown, agriculture and biosecurity spokesperson Todd Muller. Commentators believe...

By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby The two PNG Defence Force officers charged with the wilful murder of late Zone Three police commander Andrew Tovere...

COMMENT: By Keith Locke The covid-19 coronavirus crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas in New Zealand, not least on foreign...

Pacific Media Centre Seven more people have been detained in Indonesia for alleged treason since a complaint filed with the United Nations last month, says...

By Mong Palatino of Global Voices A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island...

By RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea's West Sepik province says people are still defying the official border closure and crossing into Indonesia. Vanimo,...

By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News The federal government has lodged an appeal to overturn a Federal Court decision recognising the Australian citizenship of a...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ Manu Korihi reporter New Zealand's border restrictions have cut off more than 90 percent of visitors to Rotorua's oldest tourism...

By Evaristo Soares Martins and Robert Baird in Dili The Vice-President of Timor-Leste's National Parliament, Maria Angelina Sarmento, has been physically removed from a plenary...

By Gynnie Kero in Madang Five men have died in a shootout with Papua New Guinea police near Madang  after they tried to hold up...

By RNZ News Many people have revelled in a return to a simpler life in recent weeks. While lockdown restrictions are eased in many...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...

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...