APR editor
When will enough be enough? Port Moresby’s struggle with ethnic war
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Port Moresby’s "amazing city" tag in Papua New Guinea is fast losing its varnish and appeal --...
UNHRC adopts resolution to help Marshall Islands over nuclear legacy
RNZ Pacific
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution aimed at assisting the Marshall Islands to get justice in the aftermath of...
‘Mexican standoff’ ends, as PNG court orders locks removed over unpaid...
PNG Post-Courier
The Mexican standoff over the closure of Papua New Guinea government offices due to nonpayment of rentals has ended.
The National Court has ordered...
Indonesian police asked to stop ‘intimidating witnesses’ over football stadium tragedy
By Fika Nurul Ulya in Jakarta
The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has appealed to Indonesian police chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo to stop...
PNG police put national exams under guard over cheating fears
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
For the first time in the life of school exams in Papua New Guinea, police will monitor the national...
Black Ferns: a new dawn for global women’s rugby
ANALYSIS: By Jamie Wall, RNZ sports writer
The Blacks Ferns 41-17 win over the Wallaroos on the field at Auckland's Eden Park last night was...
Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes...
RNZ News
Wellington's Tory Whanau has convincingly won the mayoralty race for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a triumph for diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand's local government...
NZ local elections: A Pacific mayor possible for biggest city Auckland?
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter
The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate...
Papuan students abroad plead for Governor Enembe to get treatment
Jubi/West Papua Daily
Papuan students studying in Russia and Australia have appealed to the Indonesian government to respect the health rights of Papua Governor Lukas...
Parkop calls for full probe into brutal murders of two Moresby...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop wants the city’s police to fully investigate the gruesome murder...
Quality of iTaukei language under threat, says Fiji scholar
By Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific
Concerns are being raised about the future survival of the iTaukei (Fijian) language as a threat of extinction looms...
NZ university union members to strike tomorrow over pay demand
RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealand tertiary union members will go on strike at eight universities tomorrow over a cost of living pay demand.
The Tertiary...
Honiara doesn’t want to be forced to choose sides, says Foreign...
RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele says the country joined an agreement with the United States only after changes to wording relating to...
Delegates from French Polynesia head to UN decolonisation committee
RNZ Pacific
Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee.
The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru...
Small communities could be buying, selling and saving money on electric...
ANALYSIS: By Soheil Mohseni, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Globally, the...
Marshall Islands calls off talks after no US response on nuclear...
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
On the eve of the US Pacific Islands Summit in Washington, a...
Fate of Papua’s Governor Enembe – the ‘son of Koteka’ –...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Alleged corruption involving Governor Lukas Enembe has dominated both Papuan and Indonesian media outlets and social media groups over the...
Petition calls for monarchy to be replaced on New Zealand money
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
A Wellington tauira (scholar) has launched a petition calling for Aotearoa New Zealand's Reserve Bank to replace the...
5 suspects arrested as probe continues into killing of PNG Ports...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police have arrested five men in Goroka over their alleged involvement in the killing of PNG...
Tunoa – house arrest – on Tokelau family ends after more...
RNZ Pacific
The Taupulega, or council, on the Tokelau atoll of Nukunonu, has lifted a house arrest order on a family which had refused to...
$100m apartment complex coming to Manukau – but you’ll have to...
By Stephen Forbes of Local Government Reporting
A new $100 million apartment complex is coming to Manukau -- Auckland's heart of Pacific communities.
But you'll have...
Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’
RNZ Pacific
Mortar demonstrations involving military forces from five nations have taken place in Fiji.
The tactical field training exercise called Exercise Cartwheel was a US...