APR editor
NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition
Asia Pacific Report
Nuclear-free and independent Pacific advocates are treating Aucklanders to a lively week-long exhibition dedicated to the struggle for nuclear justice in the...
Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...
Asia Pacific Report
A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental...
‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...
From the prologue of the 40th anniversary edition of David Robie’s seminal book on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, former New Zealand prime minister...
Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior...
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...
By Aui'a Vaimaila Leatinu'u of PMN News
I didn’t know much about the surrounding context of the infamous Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years ago on...
Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...
RNZ News Nights
Tomorrow marks 40 years since the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow Warrior -- a moment that changed the course of New...
Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy
Asia Pacific Report
A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country's traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order...
Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll
RNZ Pacific
The Bougainville election process begins today with the issuance of the writs yesterday.
Nominations open Tuesday, July 8, and close on Thursday, July 10.
Voting...
NZDF not considering recruiting personnel from Pacific nations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is not considering recruiting personnel from across the Pacific as talk continues of...
The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10...
27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...
Asia Pacific Report
Australian solidarity activists today marked the 27th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West Papua and have warned the human rights crisis...
Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice...
Asia Pacific Report
Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged...
Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank targeted three business sites accused of being "complicit" in Aotearoa New...
Guam nuclear radiation survivors ‘heartbroken’ over exclusion from compensation bill
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
People on Guam are "disappointed" and "heartbroken" that radiation exposure compensation is not being extended to them, says the...
Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal
Author David Robie and Little Island Press are about to publish next week a 40th anniversary...
UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy...
Asia Pacific Report
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has called on countries to cut off all trade and financial...
Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...
Asia Pacific Report.
In an unprecedented legal move in Aotearoa New Zealand, a national Palestine solidarity advocacy group has filed a referral against the prime...
The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents...
Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’
By Reinhard Minong in Port Moresby
The Catholic Church has strongly warned against Papua New Guinea’s political rhetoric and push to declare the nation a...
Tonga cybersecurity attack wake-up call for Pacific, warns expert
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A Tongan cybersecurity expert says the country's health data hack is a "wake-up call" for the whole region.
Siosaia...
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games – how Israel is weaponising starvation
ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges
Israel’s weaponisation of starvation is how genocides always end.
I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during...
Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step...
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The Micronesian Islands Forum cranks up with officials meetings this week in Majuro, with...

































































