Fiji elections: Poll data app back online after late night ...
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji Elections Office app is back online after a glitch last night forced the suspension of provisional results.
Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem...
Long covid, long tail – long summer of infection concerns in...
RNZ News
With restrictions eased, public health warnings muted and mask wearing now almost non-existent, the risk of contracting covid-19 is still very real, particularly...
Fiji elections: Polls close and early results favour People’s Alliance
RNZ Pacific
Polls have now closed in the Fiji general election and results are flowing in.
Voreqe Bainimarama of the FijiFirst party, and his main rival,...
Voters share ‘integrity and truth’ vision of a strong Fijian democracy
By Cooper Williams, Yasmine Wright-Gittins and Cindy Chand of Wansolwara in Suva
Former politician Remesio Rogovakalali is hoping to see transparency and engagement in the...
Fijians brave the heat as numbers swell – but elections chief...
By Yasmine Wright-Gittins, Leila Parina and Geraldine Panapasa of Wansolwara in Suva
Water bottles, umbrellas and fans were common accessories for voters across Fiji today....
‘The time has come’, says Zelensky in fresh appeal to NZ...
RNZ News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address to New Zealand's Parliament today and the government has pledged an additional $3 million of humanitarian...
Voters turn up in numbers as Fiji’s 2022 election gets underway
By Ioane Asioli, Cooper Williams and Geraldine Panapasa of Wansolwara in Suva
Scores of people along the Nasinu-Suva corridor lined the premises of their designated...
Fijians heading to the polls today for third post-coup election
RNZ Pacific
More than 606,000 Fijians are expected to head to the polls today to elect a new Parliament for a four-year term.
This is the...
New Caledonia township Canala marks independence referendum anniversary
RNZ Pacific
The local administration in the New Caledonian township of Canala stayed shut on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the last referendum...
CAFCA stalwart and prolific reviewer Jeremy Agar dies
OBITUARY: By Murray Horton in Christchurch
It is with great sadness that I am reporting that Jeremy Agar was found dead in his Lyttelton home...
Fiji elections chief briefs observers ready for tomorrow’s voting
RNZ Pacific
Observers of the Fiji election have been briefed by the Supervisor of Elections ahead of polling, which begins tomorrow.
Mohammed Saneem took the observers...
PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey has clarified that the miscellaneous item of K2.6 billion in the budget will be spent on settling...
This is more sinister than you think – my people’s freedom...
By Veronica Koman in Sydney
As an Indonesian lawyer living in exile in Australia, I find it deeply troubling that the changes to the Indonesian...
Showdown between two former coup leaders in fight for Fiji’s democracy
By Ravindra Singh Prasad in Suva
It is an ironic fact in Fiji, a multiethnic Pacific nation of under one million people, that coups don't...
Amnesty condemns mass arrests of West Papuans on Human Rights Day
Amnesty International
Amnesty International Indonesia and Amnesty International Australia have condemned the repression used against the people in West Papua when they were commemorating Human...
Fiji elections: Rabuka – ‘What I’m doing now is a vision’
By Ella Melake in Suva
The People’s Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka in Fiji says he is ready to use all the experience and knowledge he...
Mediawatch: NZ public media merger meets growing resistance as clock ticks
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s hints this week that reforms will be pared back in 2023 -- and an...
Fiji elections: SODELPA has ‘sold its soul’, says Rabuka
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
The People’s Alliance party leader Sitiveni Rabuka claims the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) “has sold its soul” in secretly...
Fiji elections: People ‘not powerless’ in real democracy, says Naidu
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
People are not powerless in a “real” democracy, says prominent Suva-based Fiji lawyer Richard Naidu.
Speaking to The Fiji Times during...
Indonesia accused of using new Criminal Code to ‘colonise its own...
Asia Pacific Report
Civil society organisations which make up the National Alliance for Criminal Code Reform have slammed the decision by the Indonesian government and...