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The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home. The general manager...

RNZ News Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon says there are more important issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand than the controversy over a party social...

RNZ Pacific A Fiji political leader is calling out the Australian and New Zealand governments on their "deafening silence" over human rights issues in the...

Inside PNG News Papua New Guinea's Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, today accepted Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai's recommendation to extend the date for the 2022 general...

By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby National Capital District Metropolitan Police Superintendent Gideon Ikumu has ruled out a proposal to impose a curfew in the...

RNZ Pacific The Commonwealth group that has been observing the Papua New Guinea national elections has called for an urgent review of the electoral process. The...

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Tumon, Guam Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has expressed support for the Federated States of Micronesia’s move to oppose China’s proposed...

ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University The covid-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the...

Inside PNG News National Capital Dictrict (NCD) police have arrested 18 suspects following the slasher attacks on civilians yesterday outside Papua New Guinea's national elections...

By Aden Miles Morunga, Local Democracy Reporter “It’s exciting to know that I am involved in making history and that my contribution will leave a...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Running like a pack of animals, a group of political party supporters in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...

By Jairo Bolledo in Manila A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City,...

RNZ News After leading the Aotearoa New Zealand's covid-19 response for the last two years, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is stepping down from the role of...

By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji's Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is "doing damage" to the premier regional university by withholding the Fiji government’s obligatory contribution,...

By Victor Mambor and Alvin Prasetyo in Jayapura The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is warning in a new report that mass killings of civilians could...

RNZ Pacific Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of the Republic of Vanuatu. It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens' leadership by...

By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter A district mayor says the Aotearoa New Zealand local government sector is ready to launch into a future that...

By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier “It’s okay, we'll just sit here and they can come kill us.” These chilling words are from a defenceless...

By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...