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By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has been felt across Papua New Guinea with widespread damage to villages and an unconfirmed...

RNZ Pacific Flags are flying at half mast across the Pacific and leaders are paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died at Thursday at...

ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury The death of Queen Elizabeth II brings to an end a long, complex and remarkable chapter in the...

RNZ Pacific Queen Elizabeth II -- 1926-2022 Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama tweeted today "Fijian hearts are heavy this morning as we bid farewell" as global...

COMMENT: By John Minto Deception and political spin crossed new boundaries this week with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, under pressure to explain the housing catastrophe...

REVIEW: By Philip Cass, editor of Pacific Journalism Review One of the joys of travelling the world and collecting books is the historical oddities that...

Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura The lawyer of the families of the victims of the Mimika murder case has criticised the military reconstruction of the killings...

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e lea faka-Tonga, or Tongan Language Week, is under way with schools and community groups organising...

By Rodney Duthie in Suva Kiwi-born and Fiji-raised France rugby centre Virimi Vakatawa has revealed that he has a heart condition that has forced him...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia has voted a draft opinion for a temporary ban on seabed mining projects. Of the territory's Council for the Economy, Social, Environment...

RNZ Pacific Tongan police have confirmed the death of a seven-year-old boy after he was shot. Police report the shooting occurred at the boy's residence at...

ANALYSIS: By David Engel, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has analysed thousands of suspicious tweets posted in 2021 relating...

RNZ News A union representing New Zealand tertiary sector staff says a proposal which could lead to massive job cuts at the Auckland University of...

ANALYSIS: By Sadhana Sen and Stephen Howes The last time the Australian Labor Party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against Fiji...

COMMENT: By Robbie Newton of Human Rights Watch Authorities arrested six Indonesian soldiers last week suspected in the killing and mutilation of four Indigenous Papuans...

By Luke Nacei in Suva Be responsible, righteous, honest, and lead by example. That’s the advice from psychotherapist Selina Kuruleca to all fathers, as Fijians celebrate...

OBITUARY: By Dr Brij Lal Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear Full many a floww’r is...

RNZ Pacific Seven people have been found guilty of "treason" after raising the banned Morning Star flag in West Papua, a Melanesian region of Indonesia. In...

By Laurens Ikinia "Noa'ia 'e" is a greeting people hear when you meet anyone from the island of Rotuma in Fiji or when they visit...

By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier The Conflict group of islands in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province cannot be sold to foreign interests,...

RNZ Pacific Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) says the country's just-completed national election was a severely flawed process. TIPNG deployed 340 observers during the polling...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's new Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko has revealed to Australian media his country is moving to negotiate a security treaty with...