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RNZ Pacific The founding members of the FijiFirst party, including former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and ex-attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, have resigned. Sayed-Khaiyum confimed that party president...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby New Ireland Governor and a former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Julius Chan told the PNG Post-Courier in...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yumna Patel At least 274 Palestinians were killed and more than 698 others were wounded on Saturday in the central Gaza Strip,...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A "dialogue mission" set up by French President Emmanuel Macron when he visited New Caledonia last...

Asia Pacific Report About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand's largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill...

By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Kanak people in Aotearoa New Zealand are lamenting the loss of family and friends in Kanaky...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's opposition leader James Nomane says Parliament needs to be recalled immediately as the gravity of Wednesday’s...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist People in Kanaky New Caledonia are disappointed that the riots last month are now being overshadowed by the Parliament...

RNZ News New Zealand will make its annual payment of $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as scheduled. Foreign Affairs Minister...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific regional network has deplored what they call increasing brutality on Kanak youth in Kanaky New Caledonia and...

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific in Hawai’i A fleet of traditional voyaging canoes have been welcomed into Kualoa bay, Hawai'i, heralding the beginning of the...

Asia Pacific Report The president and board of the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia has appealed in an open letter to French President Emmanuel...

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific in Hawai'i After an eight-year break due to the covid pandemic, the world's largest Pacific festival is kicking off again...

By Giles Dexter, RNZ News reporter, in Niue Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he wants New Zealand to be a partner of choice in the...

COMMENTARY: By Jimmy Naouna in Nouméa The unrest that has gripped Kanaky New Caledonia is the direct result of French President Emmanuel Macron’s partisan and...

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Police in New Caledonia have a new weapon in their arsenal -- state of the art armoured vehicles...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's trip to Niue holds "profound significance", the Niuean government says. Luxon heads to Niue today and then to...

By Repeka Nasiko in Suva "Let other people decide your salaries" is the latest message in the Fiji parliamentary pay controversy. This is the call of...

By Miriam Zarriga in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea Little Ima met Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape last Friday during the "haus krai" in...

RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in for an acclaimed American Samoan poet and teacher who was murdered last Saturday in Apia allegedly by a fellow...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has commended the coordinated efforts between police and defence intelligence units in the lead up to...

OPEN LETTER: Gaza academics and administrators We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of...