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...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's "glassmen" -- men who claim to identify and accuse women of sorcery -- must be hunted...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...