PNG’s national university eyes ‘global’ ties with China
By Dylan Murray in Port Moresby
University of Papua New Guinea chancellor Robert Igara says his administration is in talks with the Chinese Embassy to...
PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run...
RNZ Pacific
A curfew has been imposed in part of Papua New Guinea and extra police have been moved in to quell unrest over the...
Vale Sir Rabbie Namaliu – his policies shaped the history of...
TRIBUTE: By Sir Charles Lepani
The devastating news of Sir Rabbie Namaliu’s untimely death has been difficult for us all to understand.
It has not been...
Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
One of New Zealand's wealthiest people says he supports a capital gains tax, as new research lays...
Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed,...
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva
The gamble that the previous FijiFirst government took in 2016 — in reducing the value added tax (VAT) rate from...
University security guard graduates at UPNG with BA degree
By Marcia Negri in Port Moresby
The arena was filled with applauses and whistles when Fidelis Kamsnok walked up to the podium to receive his...
‘I’m alive, healthy . . . stop the bombs,’ says kidnapped...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens, who is being held by pro-independence fighters in West Papua, appears well in a newly-released video.
It comes as...
‘Conserve energy’ plea to Fiji as Monasavu, Nadarivatu dams run low
By Anish Chand in Suva
Energy Fiji Ltd (EFL) has warned that the Monasavu and Nadarivatu hydropower schemes may need to shut down if it...
Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
Anzac dawn ceremonies have been held across the Pacific region, with tributes paid to both Anzac and Pacific Island...
‘Tears always fall’ – Cook Islanders remember their fallen Anzac heroes
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
In the early 1940s a young Sergeant Alexander Brown from Mangaia, Cook Islands, was killed in action.
"His siblings, all...
Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of...
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party has been told that France is "panicking" and afraid of losing New Caledonia.
The head...
New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story...
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury
What happened on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 108 years ago has shocked and shaped Aotearoa New Zealand...
K650m PNG hydropower project opens after 15 years – end to...
By Maxine Kamus in Port Moresby
Port Moresby’s power blackouts may now be over.
After 15 years, Papua New Guinea's national government and its Chinese...
Hasty Tahiti electoral alliance accused of serving up ‘same soup’ by...
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
Politicians in French Polynesia have reacted with scorn over the ruling party's hastily-convened electoral alliance with an opposition party,...
Long game: political activism for a public voice at Parliament
THE HOUSE: By Johnny Blades, journalist
If elected representatives have their work cut out for them to create the slightest social or political change through...
Hundreds in protest against Hauraki Gulf bottom trawling dangers
By James Hita of Greenpeace
A flotilla of crafts surrounding a massive "ban bottom trawling" banner protested off Auckland's Mission Bay today against bottom trawling...
Fiji tax system – ‘we’ll look after our vulnerable people’, says...
By Shayal Devi in Suva
Any attempt to review or change Fiji’s existing taxation system will be done with proper consideration of all reports and...
Australia announces pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
The Australian government has announced a direct pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders, ending a tension between the...
American Samoa confirms a case of measles – day care centres...
RNZ Pacific
Daycare centres have been shut down in American Samoa following confirmation of an eight-year-old girl with measles.
The territory's Department of Health (DOH) said...
Indonesian security crackdown in West Papua – ‘traumatising raids, torture’
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian security forces have intensified operations in various conflict areas in West Papua, reports Human Rights Monitor.
According to information received by the...