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By RNZ News Immigration New Zealand has confirmed that Behrouz Boochani has been given refugee status in New Zealand. Boochani has been in New Zealand since...

By EMTV News Papua New Guinea's Pandemic Controller David Manning has issued nine new control measures as the country's cases have increased to 31. He said...

By Len Garae in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has rejected a claim that he had been invited by the Indonesian government to...

By RNZ Pacific More than 20,000 people have marched through Port Vila for the opening of Vanuatu's 40th Independence Anniversary celebrations. The parade started in the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's rapid response team of the National Capital District (NCD) is conducting thorough case investigation, contact tracing and testing...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby General Hospital is scaling down its services due to covid-19 cases being detected on...

By IndoLeft News in Yogyakarta Papuan students and activists have held a protest action against Special Autonomy (Otsus) Chapter II at the zero kilometre point in...

More coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea's National Command Center has announced two new covid-19 cases in...

By Rambo Talabong in Manila Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Archie Gamboa has called on protesters preparing for rallies on President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2020...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea's Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, of Massey University The starting gates in New Zealand’s September 19 election race are finally full. Labour’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...

Not everyone is in the same boat! Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues that inequality starts at the top...

By Nikko Dizon and Paterno R Esmaquel II in Manila Filipinos and the people of Hong Kong are both in need of prayers over recently-passed...

COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis in Sydney The man with his hands on the tiller of the Fijian economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has always been a great...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...