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‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS quietness’ as support for NZ, says...
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A Pacific regionalism academic has called out New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters for withholding information from...
Auckland University staff appeal over Gaza protest in solidarity with students
Asia Pacific Report
A group of 65 Auckland University academics have written an open letter to vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater criticising the institution's stance over students...
Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest
RNZ News
A group of academic staff at New Zealand's largest university have expressed concern at the administration's move to block a protest encampment that...
New Caledonia’s women sit-in to support smeared Kanak journalist
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A women's union in New Caledonia has staged a sit-in protest this week to support senior...
ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe
Asia Pacific Report
The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff,...
USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji
By Joe Yaya of Islands Business
Controversial University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor and president Professor Pal Ahluwalia will return to be based at...
Vanuatu’s Kalsakau resigns, calls for delay on constitutional referendum
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Vanuatu's former prime minister and opposition MP Ishmael Kalsakau has stepped down -- just two days after he confirmed...
OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over...
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to "integrate" the Melanesian Pacific region in what...
NZ Foreign Minister Peters accused of ‘entirely defamatory’ remarks about ex-Australian...
By Jo Moir, RNZ News political editor, and Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor
New Zealand's Labour Party is demanding Winston Peters be stood down as...
Jeremiah Manele is new Solomon Islands PM with ‘100 day plan’
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Jeremiah Manele has been elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, polling 31 votes to 18 over rival candidate and...
Zero tolerance – Solomon Islands police on high alert ahead of...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Police in Solomon Islands are on high alert ahead of the election of the prime minister today.
The two candidates...
Ngāti Kahungunu becomes NZ’s first iwi to call for a Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
Ngāti Kahungunu in Aotearoa New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region has become the first indigenous Māori iwi (tribe) to sign a resolution calling...
PNG businesses want grants, not loans over Black Wednesday riots
By Dale Luma in Port Moresby
“We want grants and not concessional loans,” is the crisp message from Papua New Guinea businesses directly affected by...
Ready, set, go in Solomons PM race – Jeremiah Manele vs...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
Former opposition leader Matthew Wale has been announced as the second prime ministerial candidate ahead of the election in...
Pacific alliance condemns France over bid to ‘derail’ Kanaky decolonisation
Asia Pacific Report
A Pacific civil society alliance has condemned French neocolonial policies in Kanaky New Caledonia, saying Paris is set on "maintaining the status...
27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today -- and yet few people in the West even know his...
Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
The Pacific state of Hawai'i’s House of Representatives has joined the state’s Senate in calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on...
Supreme Court reinstates PNG MP after bribery ruling overturned
By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinea MP, Peter Isoaimo, who had been ousted by the National Court in an alleged bribery...
Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The first prime ministerial candidate has been announced in Solomon Islands and it is not Manasseh Sogavare.
The man of...
‘A stain on our country’: Criticism of ‘racist’ Supreme Court rulings
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
The US Department of Justice is being urged to condemn and cease its reliance...
Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up...
Asia Pacific Report
A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga...
US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global...
Asia Pacific Report
From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps.
And...