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Locals evacuate Ambae island as Manaro Voui volcano threatens to erupt in Vanuatu. – Video: Guardian Wires By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila New observations...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...

Smoke billows from Vanuatu’s Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: The Guardian ANALYSIS: By Chris Firth If you turned on the television this week, you...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's government is moving the entire population of 11,000 people from Ambae to the neighbouring islands of Pentecost, Maewo,...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk In a bid to set a new Guinness world record, 16,729 students from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines,...

A RNZAF flyover of Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: NZDF By Bob Makin in Port Vila The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has ordered...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Penama Provincial Disaster and Climate Change Committee is facing a number of challenges in its efforts to help...

By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has declared a state of emergency on Ambae island, allowing public funds to...

OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Any suggestion - such as by much of the mainstream media - that the Labour Party...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu's Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae is erupting and 8000 people are being evacuated on the island. The Penama provincial...

OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog In 2014, New Zealanders shrugged off dirty politics and mass surveillance lies and then voted National...

OPINION: By Willie Jackson Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made...

OPINION: By Barry Coates There’s a lot at stake in this New Zealand general election tomorrow. We face huge challenges ahead, including tackling climate change...

ANALYSIS: By Connor Woodman The Indonesian President, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, is desperate to keep hidden Indonesia’s dark, dirty secret - its brutal 50-year war in...

By Dwi Andayani and Noval Dwinuary Antoni in Jakarta Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) advocacy head Muhammad Isnur has accused retired Major-General Kivlan Zen and...

A flag-lowering ceremony held in the capital of Port Moresby on Saturday concluded Papua New Guinea's 42nd Independence anniversary celebrations. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media...

By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila United Nations Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has slammed the P1000 (NZ$26) budget that the House of Representatives voted to...

OPINION: By Gary Juffa in Port Moresby "O arise all you sons of this land"... that there is perhaps one of the problems to progress...

Boera village in Central province landowners from the PNG LNG Project to receive royalties. Video: EMTV News By Meriba Tulo in Boera village, Papua New...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk After two weeks of controversy, Pangu Pati leader Sam Basil and most of his party have split with Papua New Guinea's...