Papuan rebels seize NZ pilot hostage, set local plane on fire,...
RNZ Pacific
Pro-independence rebels in Indonesia's Papua province have seized a New Zealand pilot as hostage after setting a small commercial plane on fire when...
Former FBC head’s pay package – ‘We have proof’, says Amrit
By Ian Chute in Suva
Fijian Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) board chairman Ajay Bhai Amrit says he has receipts to prove former FBC chief executive officer...
PNG military ‘won’t sit back’ after soldiers ambushed, warns chief
PNG Post-Courier
PNG Defence Force Commander Major-General Mark Goina says “appropriate force” will be dealt to the gunmen who ambushed and wounded two soldiers in...
Simon Oosterman Beckers: After the Great Flood – a greenway offer...
COMMENTARY: By Simon Oosterman Beckers
We tried to give away two hectares of land to help minimise flooding in West Auckland. For free. We just...
Yamin Kogoya: The fate of Papua’s governor Enembe – where is...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
On Friday 10 February 2023, it will be one month since the Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was "kidnapped" at a...
Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has described today's Waitangi Day dawn service as moving and says he welcomes the shift away from...
Kalsakau wants Melanesian staff to work at MSG secretariat
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila
Vanuatu's prime minister has stressed any future employment within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat...
Tongan politician, democracy reformer and scholar Dr Sitiveni Halapua dies
By Kālino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News
Dr Sitiveni Halapua, former deputy leader of Tonga’s Democratic Movement, has died aged 74.
Born on February 13, 1949,...
NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Claire Breen, University of Waikato, and Valmaine Toki, University of Waikato
The heated (and often confused) debate about...
Richard Naidu: It’s your freedom – so speak up and step...
COMMENTARY: By Richard Naidu in Suva
Five weeks on from Christmas Eve, I think most of us are still a bit stunned at what has...
Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time
By Red Tsounga
Another house done, and onto the next . . . Volunteers working in Mount Albert community over the past few days helping...
Papuan journalist award-winner Victor Mambor targeted for his reports
By David Robie
When Papuan journalist Victor Mambor visited New Zealand almost nine years ago, he impressed student journalists from the Pacific Media Centre and...
Iwi leaders warn Hipkins not to bow over Three Waters co-governance
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ News Te Ao Māori journalist at Waitangi, and Russell Palmer, digital political journalist
Iwi leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand have accused opposition...
PNG’s Education Minister slams UPNG ‘discrimination’ against Filipino student
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
Higher Education Minister Don Polye has condemned a decision by the administration of the University of Papua New Guinea...
Anti-corruption agency probes Fiji’s ex-elections chief
RNZ Pacific
Fiji's former Elections Supervisor Mohammed Saneem is under investigation by the country's anti-corruption agency for alleged abuse of office and has been stopped...
NZ Greens back call for rent controls after Auckland flash floods
RNZ News
Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick is brushing off concerns a temporary rent freeze in flood-hit Auckland would just see landlords hike rents even...
Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up...
COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth
I wasn't good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language...
Papua’s Jubi chief editor awarded Indonesian Pogau prize for courage
RNZ Pacific
Journalist Victor Mambor, who is the chief editor of the West Papuan newspaper and website Jubi, has received the Oktovianus Pogau Award from...
Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’
Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...
Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying...
By Nick Young of Greenpeace
My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged.
Many...