Omicron case was briefly active in NZ community, Health Ministry confirms
RNZ News
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has confirmed that a border-related case with the omicron variant was briefly active in the community in the...
Hunt down PNG’s sorcery torture ‘glassmen’ – charge them, says Juffa
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's "glassmen" -- men who claim to identify and accuse women of sorcery -- must be hunted...
The Fiji Times: Professor Lal’s life leaves many lessons to appreciate...
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
I couldn’t help but be drawn to the constant flow of emotions that came in the wake...
Herald scolds world over contrast between space and earthly wins
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper has praised the "gift of inspiration" over global cooperation in launching the James Webb space telescope...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A friend of Aotearoa NZ and a champion...
OBITUARY: By John Minto
Palestine has lost a champion of the struggle against Israeli apartheid with the death of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, aged...
Professor Brij Lal: A champion of democracy and Fiji’s finest scholar
OBITUARY: By Professor Biman Prasad
Brij Vilash Lal, banished from the land of his birth by the Bainimarama government in November 2009 for championing democracy...
PNG police manhunt for Rai gang cult stalls without chopper
By Sylvester Wemuru in Port Moresby
The manhunt for the Papua New Guinean cult group along the Rai coast near Madang has been halted because...
‘Something has shifted’ in NZ’s security and foreign policy for China,...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
New Zealand's condemnation of Hong Kong's Legislative Council elections reflects a "hardening stance" towards China, says a leading...
Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New...
Meri Kirihimete! Merry Christmas – and all the best for 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Meri Kirihimete! Merry Christmas ... Season's greetings froim the Asia Pacific Report team to whānau, colleagues and friends, and blessings to...
Māori vaccination rates in NZ still ‘dangerously low’, say advocates
RNZ News
New Zealand's Māori vaccination rate continues to tick up, with several district health boards (DHBs) now past 90 percent for first doses.
But experts...
Consumer demand should be driving TV to digital platform – ‘not...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Suva lawyer and media commentator Richard Naidu consumer demand should be driving television stations onto a digital platform like Walesi and...
Wanted by police – a chopper airlift to hunt a PNG...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
A 21-man Papua New Guinean police team deployed to Nankina Valley in Madang’s Rai coast district has requested a...
Omicron may force more changes to NZ’s covid contact tracing system
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
Omicron could force more changes to New Zealand's contact tracing system, with the Ministry of Health carefully monitoring...
PNG church workers plead for more police help to end gang...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean church workers working behind the scenes to help the terrorised people of the Nankina valley in Madang’s Rai Coast district...
Fiji human rights activist concerned over ‘dead bodies, missing people’
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Fiji human rights activist Shamima Ali is concerned over what she says is the constant discovery of dead bodies and...
Table ‘transparent’ PNG medicine procurement proposal, says Juffa
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Oro Governor Gary Juffa has called on Papua New Guinea's Health and HIV/AIDS Minister Jelta Wong to present a...
Former priest, 82, jailed for 12 years over Timor-Leste child abuse
By Antonio Sampaio in Oecusse, Timor-Leste
Defrocked American priest Richard Daschbach, 82, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crimes of sexual...
NZ may need to tighten borders further to keep omicron at...
RNZ News
More moves to tighten the New Zealand's borders may be needed on top of the decision to delay the start of the self-isolation...
‘We’ve dreamed for a road into the villages and now it...
By Hezron Kising in Lae
It takes up to 6 km for women from Milampipi and Kaisia villages in the mountainous hinterlands of Papua New...