Tension still high in PNG’s Mt Hagen after school fight leads...
By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
A few shops and buildings in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands provincial capital Mt Hagen have...
Transform Aqorau: Rethinking Solomon Islands security – focus on arms unsustainable
ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau in Honiara
It has been an interesting couple of weeks for Solomon Islands, with stories of policing, weapons, replica weapons and...
Media watchdogs slam 16 new legal complaints against Ressa, Rappler
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Ahead of national elections in the Philippines next month, the state has stepped up its attacks on Nobel Peave laureate Maria...
New Zealand to remain at red covid-19 traffic light setting amid...
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at the red covid-19 traffic light setting, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Ardern made the announcement at today's post-cabinet...
PNG judge jails 6 sorcery killers 40 years each for ‘barbaric’...
By Clarissa Moi in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Court has sent a strong message and warning to those accused of sorcery-related violence when...
First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...
RNZ Pacific
The first female premier of a Solomon Islands province is appealing to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to help her country manage...
Yap doctors, nurses resign en masse – governor declares emergency
By Joyce McClure of Pacific Island Times
Yap State Governor Jesse Salalu has declared a state of emergency over a mass resignation of 40 doctors...
Tagata Pasifika celebrates 35 years on air – a pan-Pacific voice...
Tagata Pasifika is celebrating 35 years on air this year. Former hosts Foufou Susana Hukui, Reverend Elder Maligi Evile and former researcher/reporter Iulia Leilua...
Covid-19 in the Pacific – Nauru reports first two cases in...
RNZ Pacific
A roundup today of the covid-19 pandemic status around the Pacific.
Nauru
President Lionel Aingimea has announced that Nauru has recorded its first two covid-19...
Māori dying with covid-19 because of misinformation, says health leader
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to...
Good news for Pacific regional broadcasting – bad news for locals
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown
Good news -- an Australian parliamentary review recommends a more “expansive” media presence in the Pacific.
Bad news -- little of...
Marape flags Pertamina fuel deal amid trade, bilateral talks in Indonesia
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has flagged a possible partnership with Indonesian state-owned petroleum corporation Pertamina as the western...
AUT’s Pacific vice-chancellor targets ‘digital divide inequality’ in education
RNZ News
Auckland University of Technology's new vice-chancellor -- the country's first Pasifika educator in the top role at a university -- is determined to...
NZ covid-19 update: 17 new deaths, 13,475 cases, 764 people in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's number of people in hospital with covid-19 continues to fall, but there have still been 13,475 new cases in the community...
Ukraine, Israel, racism and the tired hypocrisy over refugees and Palestine
When Israel steals Palestinian land ... Image: imgflip.com
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed so much hypocrisy in Aotearoa New Zealand and...
Post-Courier blasts Marape for Jakarta junket ‘while Tari burns’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Post-Courier newspaper today compared Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape to the infamous emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome...
Universities must act to prevent espionage and foreign interference, but national...
ANALYSIS: By Sarah Kendall, The University of Queensland
This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released its much anticipated report on national...
Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe had an hour-long meeting with Russian Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyeva, accompanied by the director of the Russian Centre...
Parliament protest donations went to bank account of man with history...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
A man whose personal bank account was used to receive donations for New Zealand's Parliament protest is...
One third of NZ covid cases in children and teens, says...
RNZ News
One third of all current cases in Aotearoa New Zealand are in children and teenagers, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at...