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COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...

By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...

By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus. Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation says there are two problems with the Indonesian police which have developed during the...

By RNZ Pacific A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...

COMMENTARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga Where does the responsibility of Tonga's Police Commissioner lie? Is it to the Police Minister and Cabinet? To the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk About 200 people protested in Auckland as demonstrations took place in at least nine New Zealand cities and towns today against...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby A passionate plea by men, women and children has echoed around the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice...

Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful "cry for justice" march in the nation's capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV...

OPEN LETTER: From Dame Meg Taylor to the people of Papua New Guinea I write this as a Papua New Guinean and a daughter of...

From RNZ News Checkpoint David Clark is out and Chris Hipkins is in as New Zealand's new Health Minister until the election in September. Hipkins told...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Bhosip Kaiwi, the man accused of murder in the Papua New Guinean torture case, will be held at the Correctional Services...

By Mackenzie Smith of RNZ News Hong Kong protesters in New Zealand are worried they could be arrested if they return home because they have...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby The care of duty supposed to be provided to the young Papua New Guinean mother Jenelyn Kennedy killed last...