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Chinese naval training ship in Fiji for goodwill visit
The Chinese naval training ship Zhenghe has travelled to Fiji on a goodwill visit.
The ship is carrying 349 crew on board, including 169 trainees,...
Parkop calls on PNG to use state veto power to revoke...
By Cedric Patjole in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on the state to use its veto powers...
Phillip Knightley: The supreme investigative journo and storyteller
OBITUARY: By Richard Lance Keeble
Phillip Knightley, the investigative reporter who has died aged 87, was a wonderful storyteller. Once he told my students at...
Indonesian anticorruption activist George Aditjondro dies in Palu
OBITUARY: By Ruslan Sangadji in Jakarta
Activist, researcher, scholar and former Tempo magazine journalist George Junus Aditjondro has died in Palu, Central Sulawesi. He was 70...
Greenpeace video shows NZ oil seismic blasts ‘betrayal’ over climate change
The Schlumberger seismic survey vessel, Amazon Warrior, seismic blasting approximately 120 nautical miles off the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Video: Nigel...
Duterte’s War: ‘He was alive when they hammered the nails into...
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bodies pile up in the Philippines as Duterte’s controversial "war on drugs" continues after the President tells citizens to deal...
Indonesia’s Jokowi still owes resolution of past rights abuses
By Margareth S. Aritonang in Jakarta
After two years of running the country, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has still not fulfilled his campaign promise to...
Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters
By Dr Alexandra Wake in Melbourne
As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands early today, triggering a...
Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases
A tsunami warning has been issued for several Pacific countries - including Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - following an earthquake...
Philippines move to restore death penalty bill wins House support
Rappler's Evening wRap on President Duterte and the death penalty.
By Mara Cepeda in Manila
A proposed measure seeking to reimpose the death penalty in the...
Mounting death toll tops 102 after strong quake hits Aceh buildings
By Hotli Simanjuntak in Banda Aceh
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Aceh in Indonesia early yesterday morning, destroying buildings in Pidie Jaya...
Regional meeting eyes Pacific climate migration and displacement
By Debbie Singh in Suva
A regional meeting to consider key Pacific priorities and responsibilities for advancing commitments under international and regional policy frameworks on...
Why the ‘treason’ arrests in Indonesia are a worry for Asia-Pacific
By Abdul Qowi Bastian
Sri Bintang Pamungkas was arrested in his home in Cibubur, in the outskirts of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, on early Friday morning,...
‘Beaten and left in cell screaming in pain’ – Amnesty alleges...
By Tevita Vuibau in Suva
It has been more than eight years since Nimilote Baleiloa saw the body of his late son Josefa Baleiloa in...
Fiji deports US citizen for ‘swearing at president’, claims government
By Talebula Kate in Suva
A United States national has been deported after swearing at the President of Fiji, Jioji Konrote, last week, it was...
Former National leader slams Key as achieving ‘nothing of significance’
Former National Party leader Don Brash has condemned the man who ousted him for the party's leadership, saying on New Zealand national radio John...
Vanuatu agrees to pay Vt18 million fine to avoid fisheries blacklisting
Compiled by Jane Joshua in Port Vila
Vanuatu has reached an agreement to pay a substantial fine to the Cooks Islands, after Rarotonga reported a...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
‘Rize of Morning Star’ boosts global ‘free Papua’ movement with new...
The new video Sorong Samara. Video: The Rize Of The Morning Star
While Indonesian authorities tried to brutally suppress West papua "independence day" rallies across...
Indonesian police seize public buses for 328 arrested at ‘free Papua’...
By Yudhistira Amran Saleh in Jakarta
Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua have been arrested and...
West Papua supporters gather at PMC for Morning Star flag event
A West Papua video marking the global Morning Star flag-raising event today.
About 20 academics, librarians, journalists, students and Pacific issues activists gathered at the...
The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who are counting...
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region of West Papua has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but, writes Susan Schulman in...