Papua New Guinea's government has defended its handling of preparations for the Bougainville referendum. Video: EMTV By Meriba Tulo in Port Moresby With just a year...

Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...

By Geraldine Panapasa, editor-in-chief of Wansolwara “Relief!” That was the word from Fiji Times Ltd publisher Hank Arts after High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe acquitted...

By Leilani Sitagata in Auckland A baritone studying at Auckland University has been touring New Zealand singing the praises of opera to teenagers. The fourth-year music...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The High Court in Suva has found the Fiji Times Ltd, its three senior executives and a letter writer not guilty...

RNZ Pacific The US Defense Department is to report to the US Congress by December 1 on a range of security concerns in the northern...

Talk to Al Jazeera in the Field programme features Tommy Suharto. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Suharto political dynasty is being revived in Indonesia, reports Al...

By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva The first edition of the University of the South Pacific’s student journalist training newspaper Wansolwara for the year has hit...

By Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani in Jakarta Indonesia's Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko has claimed that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had expressed...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News The government of Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva has planned an audience with the King of Tonga after a...

Mike Treen talks to Palestinian writer Ramzy Baroud on why he is going on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in July in a bid to...

By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland Palestinian author and a journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud vowed today that Palestinians would never be defeated by the Israelis and...

BRIEFING: By Jale Moala in Port Moresby MAY 19, 2000: As editor of the Fiji Daily Post newspaper in Suva, I was expecting some big...

By Litia Cava in Suva High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe is set to deliver his verdict on Tuesday after the three assessors returned with...

By Talebula Kate in Suva The three assessors in The Fiji Times sedition trial tonight returned a unanimous not guilty opinion on all counts. They found...

USGS geologist Michelle Coombs giving a status update about Hawai'i's Kilauea volcano. Video: USGS Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Scientists are predicting an eruption that shot ash...

Lae landowners have given the papua New Guinean government seven days to review existing agreements or they will close the disputed tuna fish canneries....

By Amanda Watson Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister Sam Basil has decided to extend the deadline for mobile phone subscriber identity module (SIM) card registration...

French Polynesia's Territorial Assembly has elected the ruling Tapura Huiraatira party's Gaston Tong Sang as its new assembly president for a five-year term, reports...

By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog I was fortunate enough to get a guest ticket to go along with Voyager to the NZ...