Former PM Helen Clark on panel’s call for reform over ‘runaway...
RNZ News
An international panel co-chaired by former prime minister Helen Clark is calling for urgent reform of the world's pandemic preparedness.
In its review, the...
Resourcing local Pacific media to boost wider ‘connected’ reportage
RNZ Mediawatch
After 23 years with one political party and one prime minister in charge, Samoa’s general election last month delivered a surprise neck-and-neck result....
Taieri MP Ingrid Leary pays tribute to ‘brave new wave’ of...
Pacific Cooperation Foundation
The New Zealand Rotuman community is celebrating Rotuman Language Week 2021 this week until Saturday.
Ingrid Leary, MP for Taieri and an ex-Pacific...
NZ Parliament ejects Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over haka
RNZ News
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been ejected from New Zealand's Parliament for doing a haka in protest against questions by the Opposition...
Opponents to boycott talks on French nuclear legacy after ’60 years...
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's opposition and nuclear test veterans organisation will boycott talks in Paris next month on the legacy of French testing.
The high-level roundtable...
Indonesia condemns Israeli attack on Al Aqsa mosque – call for...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has condemned the Israeli police violence against Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the holy city of...
Call for calm as 12 new community covid cases reported in...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fijians have been advised to remain calm as "ample notice" will be given should a situation in Fiji warrant a total...
Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
A deadly explosion in the Solomon Islands capital has caused fear and confusion about the ongoing threat posed by...
Marilyn Garson: Nakba is an event in the present tense –...
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson
I woke up to the news and fear cut into me for my family in Israel. Where are they right now? ...
Free Victor Yeimo now, says exiled Papuan leader Benny Wenda
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An exiled West Papuan leader has demanded the immediate release of arrested campaigner Victor Yeimo, saying that his detention was a...
PNG fugitive Tommy Baker’s prison rescue bids fail – but another...
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Two attempts by Papua New Guinea’s most wanted man, Tommy Baker, to rescue 11 members of his notorious gang...
‘We were really terrified,’ says Dunedin supermarket stabbing witness
RNZ News
A man who was at the Countdown supermarket in New Zealand's South Island city of Dunedin when four people were stabbed has described...
Timor-Leste reports 126 more covid cases – almost all in Dili
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
The Timor-Leste health authorities have registered a total of 126 new infections with SARS-CoV-2 in the last 24 hours, almost...
Indonesian police seize Papuan leader Victor Yeimo on ‘treason’ claims
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Papuan leader who has been sought by Indonesian police over the 2019 Papua "Spring" uprising, Victor Yeimo, has been arrested...
Brutality escalates as Indonesian crackdown takes force in Papua
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Brutality in West Papua has escalates with civilian and military casualties in the past month, reports SBS News.
The killing of Indonesia’s...
What’s the Valneva covid-19 vaccine, the French shot that’s supposed to...
ANALYSIS: By Adam Taylor, Griffith University
A covid-19 vaccine from French company Valneva has yet to complete clinical trials. But it has caught the eye...
Fiji reports three new community covid cases – two patients recover
By Talebula Kate in Suva
After 1616 tests in the past 24 hours, Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services has reported three new cases...
He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’
ANALYSIS: By Meriana Johnsen, RNZ News political reporter
It was supposed to chart a new way forward but He Puapua, a report on how the...
Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
The caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, thinks the newspaper you hold in your hands is dedicated...
Myanmar: If independent media dies, democracy dies
ANALYSIS: By Phil Thornton
As chaos flows in Burma, journalists are being forced to hide in plain sight by the Burmese military, writes senior journalist...