APR editor
Dictator’s son Bongbong Marcos Jr leads partial count in presidential race
Rappler
With 84.39 percent of precincts already accounted for, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the heir and only son of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos,...
FNU formalises ‘exciting’ real world collaboration with Auckland Uni
The Fiji Times
The Fiji National University and the University of Auckland have formalised their partnership through a memorandum of understanding that encourages academic cooperation...
FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only...
Fierce fighting continues in PNG’s Porgera with death toll reaching 17
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Seventeen people have been killed, hundreds of families made homeless, dozens of houses razed and government services ground to...
Millions of Filipinos troop to the polls to decide Duterte’s successor
Rappler's Livestream coverage of the elections.
By Dwight de Leon in Manila
The Philippines will decide today the successor to President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang as...
Stand-off between protesters and police on Norfolk Island averted
RNZ Pacific
A stand-off was averted on Norfolk Island today when a couple occupying a historic house chose to leave rather than face criminal charges.
The...
Prasad accuses FijiFirst of ‘political gimmick’ in highlighting 1987 coup
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has questioned the motive of the FijiFirst government to continuously highlight the...
Bongbong politics: Rehabilitating the Philippines’ martial law Marcos family
ANALYSIS: By Binoy Kampmark
Children should not pay for the sins of their parents. But in some cases, a healthy suspicion of the offspring is...
‘Call it what it is – climate crisis, not just change,’...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
An Aotearoa New Zealand-based Fijian professor of Pacific studies says the increase in the frequency of natural disasters and...
‘Our blood is boiling’ – victims angry as dictator’s son edges...
Rappler
Former political prisoner Cristina Bawagan still has the dress she wore the day she was arrested, tortured and sexually abused by soldiers during the...
Fiji’s Court of Appeal rules Russian super yacht will stay in...
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Fiji's Court of Appeal has ruled that the Russian luxury yacht Amadea, seized by the US government...
US free to remove Russian oligarch’s super yacht after Fiji court...
RNZ Pacific
The United States government can now remove the US$325 million luxury yacht Amadea, owned by Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, currently docked in Fiji.
A...
Don’t forget our midwives, warns Fiji women’s advocacy group
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Fiji Women's Rights Movement warned today that the value of midwives in the Pacific country was being undermined because of...
Nobel laureates Ramos-Horta, Ressa demand freedoms, fight for democracy
By Sofia Tomacruz in Manila
Nobel laureates José Ramos-Horta and Maria Ressa have urged Southeast Asians to keep working toward a better region where democratic...
Indonesia’s Labour Party calls for ‘fair elections’ on time at May...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesia's Labour Party has demanded that the 2024 elections be held on schedule and that they be transparent and fair during...
How a law change in PNG has fostered prime ministerial incumbency...
ANALYSIS: By Michael Kabuni and Stephen Howes
Central to the selection of the prime minister in Papua New Guinea following a general election is Section...
Cyber attack on NZ sea level website blamed on anti-climate critics...
By John Lewis of the Otago Daily Times
Aotearoa New Zealand's new NZ SeaRise website, designed to show how the country's coastline will be affected...
Retraction by key Filipino accuser triggers calls to free jailed senator
By Lian Buan in Manila
The retraction of Kerwin Espinosa, one of the main accusers in the Philippines Bilibid drug trade allegations, has drummed up...
USP ranking ‘reaffirms standing in the region’, says vice-chancellor
By Wata Shaw in Suva
The University of the South Pacific’s latest international ranking is a "testament to the excellence" that pervades the university, says...
Climate change: sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in...
The value of virtue: 7 reasons why Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s crisis leadership...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University and Toby Newstead, University of Tasmania
The war in Ukraine would test even the most hardened political operator: millions...
NZ border reopens to international and Pacific visitors tonight
RNZ News
For the first time in more than two years, New Zealand's border will reopen to international visitors at midnight tonight.
On 19 March 2020,...