PNG’s Namah calls for tighter bio controls, patrols on Indonesian border
By Scholar Kassas in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinea minister has raised concerns about "serious issues" at the PNG-Indonesia border due to a lack...
Samoa parliament formally dissolved after months of uncertainty
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Parliament has been formally dissolved, and an early election is set to take place within three months.
After months of political instability and...
Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians
Asia Pacific Report
An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan pro-independence fighters in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the...
Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico
A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
I want to share a writer’s journey -- of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I...
PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist...
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems...
Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff
“What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s...
How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza...
By Muhammad Shehada
Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own...
French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory's future remains undecided.
Leaders from both...
Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken...
Samoa parliament to be dissolved in June, election date to come
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Its official. Samoa's Parliament will be dissolved next week and the country will have an early return to the...
Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell
When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put...
Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...
Asia Pacific Report
Eight people were reported killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombed the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid in the as-Saftawi...
Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Papua New Guinea's state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the government's goal of 100 percent...
Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections
RNZ Pacific
Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’
RNZ Pacific
A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea.
Watchdog groups Act...
PSNA condemns NZ’s ‘indifference to mass murder’ as Israel blocks aid...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand humanitarian aid for Gaza worth up to $29 million is being blocked by Israel on the border of the besieged...
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific
By Stanley Simpson in Suva
I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with...
Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the...
Fiji can’t compete with Australia and NZ on teacher salaries, says...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor
Fiji cannot compete with Australia and New Zealand to retain its teachers, the man in charge of the...