APR editor
Police chief to Manila democracy protesters – ‘Just do it online’
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...
PNG suffers first reported covid-linked death – woman with breast cancer
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...
National gambles on Collins crushing Ardern’s charisma in NZ election
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...
Has the new world order failed? UN calls for new global...
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...
Bishops slam draconian security laws in Philippines, Hong Kong
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...
Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting...
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...
Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal...
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...
PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab
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...
Barbara Dreaver: Cook Islands travel bubble pressure a bid to ‘strong...
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...
Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...
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...
Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers
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...
‘Common goal – oust government’, says NZ’s new National leader Collins
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...
Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing
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....
‘Lock them up’, says furious Grey Power over covid isolation escapees
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,...
Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author
From RNZ Saturday Morning
Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade...
National MP Jian Yang, who admitted training Chinese spies, quits politics
By RNZ News
Opposition National list MP Dr Jian Yang has announced his retirement from New Zealand politics and says he will not stand in...
Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution
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...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
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...
New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be...
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...
‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid...
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...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
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...
Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media...
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...
































































