AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific reporter
Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific...
New Caledonia extends lockdown – covid death toll now 24
RNZ Pacific
The New Caledonian government has extended the current lockdown as well as the curfew, until October as the covid-19 pandemic worsens.
On Thursday, seven...
NZ reports jump to 20 covid community cases after falls
RNZ News
New Zealand's number of new community cases of covid-19 has jumped after several days of falling numbers, with 20 new cases reported in...
Richard Naidu: The Fawlty Towers government – everything they touch...
By Richard Naidu in Suva
In my household, the 1970s BBC comedy Fawlty Towers is on regular repeat for family entertainment.
Only two years ago it...
Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is...
ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
We live, to borrow a phrase, in interesting times. The pandemic aside, relations between the superpowers are tense....
Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea's covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days...
Fiji government sacking of chief statistician branded ‘shameful’
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Questions have been raised about why the head of Fiji's Bureau of Statistics was fired by the Bainimarama government...
Fiji opens Viti Levu covid containment borders from 4am tomorrow
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday,...
Colonial border between PNG and West Papua ‘will fall like Berlin...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A West Papuan group seeking self-determination has greeted Papua New Guinea on its 46th anniversary of independence, predicting that one day...
PNG controller issues new measures as covid-19 remains threat
By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby
Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new...
Afghanistan media: ‘You can’t put that genie back in the bottle’
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks prompted the US to invade Afghanistan, the Taliban announced they have taken the...
New Caledonia records three more covid-19 deaths as cases hit 1150
RNZ News
Three more covid-19 deaths have been recorded in New Caledonia eight days after it was plunged sharply into the pandemic.
Official government figures as...
Herald warns NZ over ‘lockdown fatigue’ and says delta is beatable
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's largest and most influential newspaper has warned the country against "lockdown fatigue" as the major city Auckland entered its...
Fiji urged to speed up vaccination – restrictions hamper NGO work...
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Fiji's opposition Social Democratic Liberal Party is calling on the government to boost its covid-19 vaccination programmes in the...
Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned
RNZ Pacific
Five months after Samoa's April 9 general election the FAST party government finally began its first parliamentary session today.
But it was without the...
Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A mural on the eastern side of the Wirobrajan intersection in Central Java city of Yogyakarta was covered over with black...
NZ reports covid community cases drop – by half down to...
RNZ News
New Zealand has reported 15 new cases of covid-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health has announced.
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield...
New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health...
Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva
Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?
Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover...