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By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the...

By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first...

ANALYSIS: By Ian Lowe of Griffith University Documentary maker Michael Moore’s latest offering, Planet of the Humans, rightly argues that infinite growth on a...

By Jane Patterson is political editor of RNZ News New Zealand may allow international students to come to this country under quarantine conditions, before the...

Pacific Media Centre Offences perpetrated by members of Papua New Guinea's disciplinary forces have become prevalent in the country during the coronavirus pandemic, says National...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported two new cases of covid-19 in the coronavirus pandemic in the past 24 hours and one further death,...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand's Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National...

By RNZ News The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have agreed to ease travel restrictions between the two countries as soon as it is...

By Mark Hanson of Counties-Manukau Health Vomiting while helping birth a baby on the police launch Deodar while it was being tossed around in turbulent...

By RNZ News The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report...

By RNZ Pacific New Zealanders left behind in India are asking for additional repatriation flights to evacuate them, after the government did not have enough...

By Bernadette Carreon, RNZ Pacific Palau correspondent Palau's President says the World Health Organisation's neglect of Taiwan has endangered, not only Taiwanese, but people everywhere. In...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday -  and one further death in the...

A clip from the SOE Controller's media conference. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea expects a spike of covid-19 cases this month -...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi reporter of RNZ News Community checkpoints have garnered support from New Zealand local councils, police and hundreds of...

By Basten Gokkon of Mongabay Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a  sweeping lockdown in an attempt to minimise the...

By RNZ News An immigration consultant is warning an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants. About...

By António Sampaio in Dili Xanana Gusmão, president of the second largest Timorese party, has criticised the decision to extend Timor-Leste's state of emergency, considering...

By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...

By Chris Tyler of UCL and Peter Gluckman of Koi Tū Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job...

By Jo Moir, political reporter of RNZ News New Zealand's Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has had to walk back comments made by...

ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain of Griffith University Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted countries and governments to become increasingly inward-looking. Australia is...