Fewer than 100 of Kabul’s 700 women journalists still working, says...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Taliban to provide immediate guarantees for the freedom and safety of women journalists...
Burma’s National Unity Government ‘declares war’ on military regime
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
In a seven-minute social media broadcast, President Duwa Lashi La has declared it is time to stop the military regime’s ongoing...
Fiji’s Constitution Day? Nothing but a ‘national joke’, says Prasad
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fiji celebrated Constitution Day today virtually due to the ongoing civid-19 pandemic crisis, but many see the day as a hollow...
Vaccination clinics prioritising Māori ‘swamped by Pākehā’
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
The national strategy of vaccinating against covid-19 through general and mass events is not working for...
New Caledonia begins two-week lockdown in new covid-19 outbreak
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia has detected three cases of Covid-19 in the community and ordered a two-week lockdown from midday today.
The three cases are not...
NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand's Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist's violent behaviour while he was remanded...
Three delta cases of covid detected in New Caledonia – schools...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
New Caledonia has declared all schools in the Southern province closed for two weeks from tomorrow after health authorities reported at...
New Zealand, except Auckland, to move to covid alert level ‘delta...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand, outside of Auckland, will move to alert level 2 from 11.59pm Tuesday, September 7.
Delta alert...
Indonesian military say two Papuan rebels arrested over Kisor post attack
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesian police have arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on the Kisor military post which killed four soldiers late...
‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of...
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University
Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”.
This means a generation growing up...
204 covid patients in Fiji hospitals – 20 severe, 9 critical
By Rohit Deo in Suva
Fiji health authorities report that there are currently 204 covid-19 patients admitted at the country's hospitals.
According to the Ministry of...
Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter
An Australian criminologist who deemed the New Zealand shopping mall attacker "low risk" in 2018 believes there were missed...
Auckland terror attacker ‘brainwashed’ by neighbours, mother says
The mother of Auckland's LynnMall shopping mall terror attacker in New Zealand says he was brainwashed by neighbours from the Middle East.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed...
NZ reports 20 new covid community cases – lockdown slows virus...
RNZ News
New Zealand reported 20 new community cases of covid-19 today, according to the Ministry of Health.
Speaking at today's government briefing, Director-General of Health...
‘No jab, no job’ covid policy of PNG employers stirs constitutional...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinean chief executives believe the country's entire workforce needs to be vaccinated against covid-19 to be fully productive, says...
Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter
Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...
NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an attack at Auckland's New Lynn Countdown supermarket today was a terrorist attack carried out by...
Honiara court jails high school student, 18, for ‘lockdown’ breach
By Assumpta Buchanan in Honiara
A high school student is one of three people -- including his two brothers -- who has been sentenced to...
Medical treatment for Victor Yeimo after police break up Papua protest
By Hengky Yeimo in Jayapura
Papuan activist Victor Yeimo has been receiving medical treatment in hospital following a police crackdown on a protest in the...
Samoa’s PM Fiame sacks AG over ‘lack of public trust’
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has sacked the Attorney-General, Savalenoa Mareva Betham Annandale, effective immediately.
The government suspended the Attorney-General and the Clerk...