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Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of "non self-governing territories", citing...

ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country's first president may contest the count after his party...

By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served,...

The National, Port Moresby Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by university...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this...

By Sanjeshni Kumar in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Pacific Islands nations consider the...

ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...

By Stella Martin and Rose Amos in Port Moresby Thousands of students at the University of Papua New Guinea staged a protest at the Waigani...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist University students in Papua New Guinea are protesting against the signing of...

ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University; Faith Valencia-Forrester, Griffith University; Madi Day, Macquarie University, and Susan Forde, Griffith University Stan Grant, a well-known Aboriginal journalist...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea expects to see a steady increase in United States military presence following the signing of the US-PNG Defense Cooperation Agreement...

Asia Pacific Report On the eve of Papua New Guinea’s hosted Pacific meetings, Free Papua Organisation-OPM leader Jeffrey Bomanak has called for an international embargo...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific leaders are starting to trickle into Papua New Guinea for two high level meetings and a number of...

ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Allegations of sexual harassment have emerged in the case of a senior United Nations...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is warning coastal areas  are expected to experience strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges following...

By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby United States President Joe Biden yesterday apologised to Prime Minister James Marape and the people of...

By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for...

RNZ News Prominent environmental groups in Aotearoa New Zealand are less than impressed with what they describe as underwhelming budget investments in climate, but an...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ's deputy political editor Young families are the clear target of Labour's election-year Budget, but its flagship promise - cheaper childcare -...