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By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary. Temaru, mayor...

By Katrina Tanirau in Avarua Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala...

Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large. A...

By Michael Field in Islands Business Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit...

By Soli Wilson in Apia Trouble continues to brew at the University of the South Pacific with the suspension of the vice-chancellor and President, Professor...

By Lena Reece in Suva The Fiji government has denied allegations being levelled against it of trying to "nationalise" the 12-nation University of the South...

ANALYSIS: By Albert Schram This article attempts to put the current governance crisis at the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific (USP), one of only...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji police have raided the headquarters of Fiji's National Federation Party, apparently in search of information related to social media posts. In a...

INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence...

By RNZ News Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced today that Armed Response Teams will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...

COMMENT: By Mong Palatino in Manila The proliferation of fake Facebook accounts in the Philippines is meant to derail the growing public opposition against the...

By RNZ News "Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1. The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...

By Soli Wilson in Apia A power struggle at the University of the South Pacific is continuing despite students and staff warning that it now...

By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...

ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...

By RNZ News Thousands of people were protesting across Australia today to oppose the deaths of Indigenous people in police custody. It comes as Black Lives...

By Jeremy Mogi in Lae Papua New Guinea police are investigating death threats against Lae City Authorit chief executive Neil Ellery. The threats were sent by...

By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...

Human rights watchdog TAPOL has condemned the demand by Indonesian prosecutors seeking 17 and five years imprisonment for West Papuan activists Buchtar Tabuni and...

Pacific Media Centre A Papua New Guinea provincial governor has defending his actions for speaking up in Parliament yesterday on the government’s mooted proposal to...

By RNZ News The organisers of Black Lives Matter protests in several main centres will not be prosecuted. On Monday, thousands gathered at several events around...