Timor-Leste makes top ten in 2023 World Press Freedom Index
Highlights of the 2023 World Press Freedom Index. Video: RSF
By David Robie
Timor-Leste has topped a stunning rise among Asia-Pacific countries to make it to...
Brotherson’s new cabinet for Tahiti expected to be mainly women
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's presidential candidate Moetai Brotherson has named four ministers in his proposed government, and confirmed he will vacate...
Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
There will be celebrations as well as self-contemplation in newsrooms around the world today to mark World Press...
Pacific eyes on media as Blinken joins RSF’s 2023 World Press...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific eyes will be on the World Press Freedom Index 2023 when it is launched today as concerns grow over the slip...
‘Calm before the storm’ – PNG’s Bryan Kramer vows to fight...
PNG Post-Courier
Dissident Papua New Guinean politician and former cabinet minister Bryan Kramer has vowed to fight on in his campaign against corruption, saying the...
Historic pro-independence party poll victory in French Polynesia – video
By Stefan Armbruster
A pro-independence party has decisively won elections in French Polynesia, marking a historic shift in one of France’s Pacific territories.
Veteran politician Oscar...
Tahiti’s pro-independence ‘blue wave’ back at helm with decisive win
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva
Mā'ohi Nui's blue wave of the pro-independence Tavini Huir'atira has won its bet -- to be back in the helm...
‘Dawn raid’ tactics still happening despite NZ government apology
RNZ Pacific
The New Zealand government is investigating the case of a Pasifika overstayer who was detained after a dawn raid in South Auckland last...
French Polynesia set for president who favours independence after election
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huira'atira party has won the election for a new 57-member Territorial Assembly, paving the way...
Australians should be wary of scare stories about New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal
ANALYSIS: By Michael Belgrave, Massey University
Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent claim that New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal has veto powers over Parliament was met...
Open letter: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over...
Café Pacific
An author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination today sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the...
Tahitian voters go to polls for crucial run-off territorial election
RNZ Pacific
Voting has started in French Polynesia in the second round to elect a new Territorial Assembly for a five-year term.
About 200,000 voters can...
‘Drunkards urinating, fights – Nadi is like Beirut’, says McDonalds Fiji...
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
Drunkards urinating in public, people fighting and nightclub goers passed out on the streets are usually the first things tourists...
Mass migration of Fiji nurses may be curbed soon, says health...
By Siteri Sauvakacolo in Suva
The mass migration of Fiji nurses could soon be curbed after the Health Ministry’s submissions to the government over the...
Smaller covid waves in NZ, but still ‘major uncertainties’ – professor
RNZ News
New Zealand is in the grip of a fourth wave of covid but it is predicted to be smaller than previous mass outbreaks.
The...
Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The successful restart of Papua New Guinea's New Porgera Limited gold mine is currently at high risk due to...
Anzac ceremony to recall those who died on torpedoed Japanese freighter
RNZ Pacific
An Anzac memorial service was held above the site in the South China Sea where a Japanese freighter -- which had been carrying...
‘I feel empowered’, says Pacific youth delegate after nuclear summit
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific Youth are looking at how they can spark positive change following the Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit which has...
Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates
By David Robie
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence advocates, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and...
West Papuan rebels condemn NZ for ‘collusion’ with Indonesia, risks to...
Jubi News in Jayapura
Captured pilot Philip Mehrtens has called on the Indonesian government to stop military operations in the Nduga highlands in a bid...