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Asia Pacific Report Papuan people throughout the territory of West Papua have held huge demonstrations of support for full membership of the United Liberation Movement...

ANALYSIS: By Peter C. Pugsley, University of Adelaide While Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer is opening in much of the world this week, a Japanese...

RNZ Pacific The 2023 Women's World Cup kicks off in Auckland tomorrow when co-hosts New Zealand face Norway. It is the biggest football tournament ever to...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit proposed to be held from yesterday until July 21 has been postponed...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, who is detained in Indonesia on corruption charges, was supposed to go on trial yesterday...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist, and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The New Zealand government has rejected claims by...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The number of covid-19 community cases in Tokelau has surpassed 50 and has now cropped up on all three...

RNZ Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron will make a first official visit to Papua New Guinea next Friday as part of a short Pacific trip. AFP...

By Dorothy Mark in Madang, PNG In the last 15 days of the month of July, 15 murders have occurred in the northern Papua New...

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) continues to pledge its commitment to advocate for the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) to...

By Shayal Devi in Suva "Our people are fed up with coups"  -- this is the message from renowned Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva as...

By Prudence Auvita Ipape in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's sidelined Secretary for Justice Dr Eric Kwa has been acquitted by the committal court on...

ANALYSIS: By Hugh Piper and Anna Gibert As geopolitics brings increasing engagement by external actors with the Pacific, there is a need to coordinate more...

RNZ Pacific A West Papua pro-independence leader says Indonesia is ramping up its repression of peaceful activists while people mobilise in favour of the...

ANALYSIS: By Claire Rioult, Monash University and Romain Fathi, Flinders University For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police in East New Britain have launched a 21-day operation to clamp down on community conflicts in the province. Police operation...

Asia Pacific Report Kanaky New Caledonia's parliamentary President (speaker) Roch Wamytan says it is time for France to end colonisation in the Pacific territory. Speaking to...

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has accused the country's Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, of mocking Solomon Islanders. On Monday, Solomon Islands signed nine...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group for West Papua self-determination has condemned yesterday's arrest by Indonesian security forces of 10 West Papua National Committee...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has told RNZ Pacific its standards are not outdated. It comes as...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea and Indonesia say the economic and social ties between them are closer than ever. Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Port...

By Blessen Tom, RNZ News journalist A third New Zealand university is close to signing with Mumbai's Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, opening up opportunities for...