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RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says "calm wise heads" are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia. A security force of...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape visited Wabag, the capital of Enga  province, to meet authorities before...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in...

Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military...

By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist Jessie Ounei is following in her mum's footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist. Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside...

COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand's mainstream media has been reporting on in...

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine protesters picketed the offices of Auckland-based electronics manufacturer Rakon today, accusing it of exporting military-capable products for Israel, which is under...

RNZ Pacific Close to 8000 people have been told to be on standby for evacuation from a landslide-prone area in the Highlands of Papua New...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the 12-day state of emergency imposed in New Caledonia on...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury The coverage by the New Zealand media over the brutal crackdown in New Caledonia by the French on the indigenous Kanak...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 2000 people were buried alive in the huge landslide which hit Papua New Guinea on Friday,...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Amidst the despair of the Kaolokam landslide disaster in the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, there was...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has declared that he will not resign in spite of the defection of many Pangu...

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestinian protesters today condemned Google for sacking protesting staff and demanded that the New Zealand government immediately "cut ties with Israeli genocide". Wearing...

Asia Pacific Report International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan independence group has condemned French "modern-day colonialism in action" in Kanaky New Caledonia and urged indigenous leaders to "fight...

EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times So 40 Fiji members of Parliament voted in favour of the Special Committee on Emoluments Report...

RNZ Pacific The survivors of a massive landslide in a remote village in Papua New Guinea's highlands are still waiting for official help, more than...

Asia Pacific Report By a Kanak from Aotearoa New Zealand in Kanaky New Caledonia I've been trying to feel cool and nice on this beautiful sunny...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The United States has said it is “ready to lend a helping hand” to the people of Mulitaka, Enga...