PNG prepares to impose covid lockdown in several provinces
RNZ News
Papua New Guinea authorities are preparing for a four-week lockdown in at least three provinces at the end of the month.
The move has...
‘My way or highway’ bill a product of Fiji dictatorship, says...
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Fiji's pposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad told Parliament yesterday that the Electoral Registration of Voters (Amendment) Bill...
In spite of relentless media negativity, NZ’s covid story is largely...
COMMENTARY: By Glen Johnson
On August 17, a 58-year-old man from Auckland became symptomatic and tested positive for covid-19. It was New Zealand’s first community...
Detained West Papuan activist at risk of ‘dying in jail’, UN...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A United Nations expert has urged Indonesia to provide proper medical care to a Papuan independence activist to "keep him from...
PNG doctor from Daru Hospital dies from covid-19
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Papua New Guinean doctor evacuated from Daru in Western Province to Port Moresby last Tuesday has died – the latest...
Covid-19 crisis a pretext for West Papua online, offline repression, says...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Indonesian government has used the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to crack down on West Papuan street protests and to...
If NZ’s covid elimination strategy is abandoned now ‘more Māori and...
ANALYSIS: By Collin Tukuitonga, University of Auckland
Auckland’s move to alert level 3 has also triggered speculation about whether the national covid-19 elimination strategy has...
NZ covid-19 breaches: Infringement fines to increase dramatically
RNZ News
Breaching covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand will now mean an increased infringement fee of up to $12,000 for individuals when imposed by a...
Samoa Observer: The fallacy of a nuclear submarine deal for peace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...
NZ experts say Auckland move to alert level 3 ‘risky’ –...
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
Alert level 3 is being called a roll of the dice that could either eliminate delta or send...
Pacquiao says boxing career over in favour of his presidency quest
By Roy Luarca in Manila
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is leaving the sport that propelled him to stardom as he seeks the Philippine presidency...
PNG’s labour minister calls for truce in ‘no jab no job’...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Department of Labour has broken its silence over the government’s stance on covid-19 testing requirements in the "no...
Auckland moves ‘cautiously’ to covid alert level 3, rest of NZ...
RNZ News
Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Tuesday night, and stay in level 3 for at least two weeks, Prime...
Criminalisation of activists blamed for Indonesia’s declining democracy
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The criminalisation of activists -- including those in West Papua -- in 2019 and 2020 has been cited as one of...
Three new NZ ‘breakout’ covid cases in Waikato include two students
RNZ News
A testing centre is being set up at a marae in New Zealand's Waikato settlement of Kaiaua today after three community cases of...
On the money: Kate Sheppard and the making of a NZ...
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury
In 1992 four New Zealand icons (and the queen) appeared on new banknotes. Part of creating national identity,...
NZ delta’s tail is ‘long and tough’, says PM Jacinda Ardern
RNZ News
As Auckland waits to hear if it will move down an alert level this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has assured New Zealand...
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...