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Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear...
Asia Pacific Report
In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network
Tongan community leaders and artists in New Zealand have criticised the Treaty Principles Bill while highlighting the ongoing...
Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News
As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...
Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a...
Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...
RNZ Pacific
Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a motion in the Cook Islands Parliament aimed at ousting his government, the second Pacific Island leader...
Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition
Asia Pacific Report
An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a "dangerous and politicised" definition of antisemitism which...
J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites
A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....
PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic
RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government wants to have everyone on their National Identity (NID) card system by the country's 50th anniversary on 16...
Barred European Union politician brands Israel as ‘a rogue state’
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera.
The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame survives in resounding no-confidence vote
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has survived a vote of no confidence after weeks of political turmoil.
In...
Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls' first two days in New Caledonia have been marred by...
Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’
PNG Post-Courier
Prime Minister James Marape has issued a strong appeal to all young men and boys in Papua New Guinea -- stop abusing girls,...
Hamas handover spectacles are demo to world of ‘keeping captives safe’,...
Asia Pacific Report
Hamas stages elaborate ceremonies for the release of Israeli captives in Gaza in a bid to signal they are responsible stakeholders by...
France’s Minister Valls faces tough talks in New Caledonia over future
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
As French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls lands in New Caledonia tomorrow to pursue talks on...
Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine
RNZ Pacific
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's announcement this week that the island nation will open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem has been labelled "an...
Palestine and Gaza’s Hamas resistance condemn Fiji over embassy plan
By Anish Chand in Suva
Palestine has strongly condemned Fiji’s decision to open a Fiji embassy in Jerusalem, calling it a violation of international law...
Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist, in Avarua, Rarotonga
More than 400 people have taken to the streets to protest against Cook Islands Prime Minister...
Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison
Asia Pacific Report
Two Palestinian resistance groups have condemned “the brutal assault” on prisoners at Ofer Prison, saying it was “barbaric criminal behaviour that reflects...
‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown hopes to have "an opportunity to talk" with the New...
Open letter from local Jewish Voices condemns Zionist ‘colonisation’ project
Asia Pacific Report
Two independent Jewish Voices groups in Aotearoa New Zealand have written an open letter to the government condemning the Zionist "colonisation" project...
