French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
Campaigning for French Polynesia's territorial elections has entered its final week.
Dressed in their parties' respective colours, supporters of several...
Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says...
RNZ Pacific
The authorities in Indonesia's Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters...
Climate crisis: The Fiji villages in paradise being swallowed by the...
Video report by Craig Reucassel
With tourism back and booming, Fiji is again a number one destination for travellers seeking an island paradise experience.
And while...
Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set...
$9.6m scandal – Post Fiji to pay huge bill to Australia-based...
By Anish Chand in Suva
Post Fiji Ltd has engaged a law firm to recover $9.6 million from an Australia-based mail logistics company that used...
Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...
The Fiji Times: Draconian media law gone – good riddance!
EDITORIAL: By the editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
It’s gone! Finito! Yesterday was a memorable day for the media. The Media Industry Development Act was repealed in...
Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped
By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists
The Fiji Parliament has voted to "kill" a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms...
‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday...
Jacinda Ardern says goodbye to parliament – how her politics of...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as prime minister in January was a courageous and pragmatic decision for herself, her family and...
Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out...
Fiji’s longest active newsroom keen for ‘kicking out’ of tough media...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The man in charge of Fiji's oldest newspaper has high hopes for press freedom in the country following the...
Rob Campbell: Are diversity policies backfiring in business – or am...
Corporate diversity and inclusion have become more about profits than about recognising the rights of women and minorities, argues ousted Te Whatu Ora chair...
Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’
RNZ News
Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according...
Tough times ahead but Fiji’s coalition has ‘achieved much’, says PM...
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
Fiji's coalition government has achieved much in its first 100 days but Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says he is not...
Ex-PM Ardern named Christchurch Call envoy against online violence
RNZ News
Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been appointed as Special Envoy for the Christchurch Call.
Ardern established the initiative to eliminate violent extremist content...
Ni-Vanuatu villagers need more help after cyclones Judy and Kevin
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Port Vila
Communities in Vanuatu continue to rely on government for basic necessities and still lack access to...
Bougainville president slams ‘mocking’ by drunken MP over independence
Asia Pacific Report
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama today condemned a visiting Papua New Guinean member of Parliament for "mocking" the autonomous region's independence aspirations during...
PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big...
By Jean Nuia in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea’s fourth prime minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, has died -- four days shy of his...
Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in...
Asia Pacific Report
The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after...









































