Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws independent journalism into chaos
Pacific Media Watch
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress...
‘Journalism has become a blood sport. It is harder and harder...
A investigative journalism programme -- Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) -- that has pubiished exposes about the South Pacific and has not...
Troubled road in New Caledonia fully reopens after eight-month closure
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The main provincial road linking New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, to the south of the main island...
Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer
The chair of a World Health Organisation (WHO) advisory group is urging world leaders to denounce misinformation around...
How the Palestine Authority and Israel are allies in silencing the...
COMMENTARY: By Eman Mohammed
On December 28, 21-year-old student journalist Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the...
Palestine prisoners’ release ‘symbolic win’ showing unity in face of occupation,...
Asia Pacific Report
Sultan Barakat, a professor at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says the release of Palestinian prisoners is a “symbolic win” rather than...
‘Ignore Trump’s bully’ and take stand over genocide, PSNA tells Peters
Asia Pacific Report
A defiant Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair, John Minto, has appealed to Aotearoa New Zealand to stand with the "majority...
Indonesia’s amnesty plan for West Papua independence fighters greeted with scepticism
By Victor Mambor and Tria Dianti
The Indonesian government’s proposal to grant amnesty to pro-independence rebels in West Papua has stirred scepticism as the administration...
Moral bankruptcy, Israel’s genocide and the betrayal of the Palestinians
Why has any discussion about Israel, its violations of international law, and the international legal expectations for third party states to hold IDF soldiers...
UN rapporteur welcomes ‘best news’ — Hague Group coalition pushing for...
Asia Pacific Report
UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese has hailed the formation of The Hague Group, describing it as the...
NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent
There has rightly been much debate and analysis over New Zealand’s decision to review the aid it gives...
Former PNG army commander Jerry Singirok pays tribute to Sir Julius...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The former Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) commander who defied a government decision to send mercenaries to...
Wenda calls for international inquiry into film claim that Indonesia is...
Pacific Media Watch
A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical...
As Donald Trump plays God in Gaza, Israel acts like spoiled...
The Gaza ceasefire deal proves that Israeli politics can only survive if it is engaged in perpetual war.
COMMENTARY: By Abdelhalim Abdelrahman
US President Donald Trump...
His Majesty’s pleasure: King reigns over Tongan government despite democratic reform
COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala
Long live the king and long may he reign, so goes the traditional proclamation. In Tonga, King Tupou VI has shown...
NZ-Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat
A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her...
Sir Julius Chan, one of Papua New Guinea’s founding fathers, dies...
OBITUARY: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Papua New Guinea and Neville Choi
Papua New Guineans have launched an outpouring of grief and appreciation...
‘All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell’...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...
Marape calls US climate backtracking ‘irresponsible’ in rethink plea to Trump
PNG Post-Courier
In a fervent appeal to the global community, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has called on US President Donald Trump...
Israel jeopardising ‘any prospect of peace’, says UNRWA chief
The New Arab
Implementation of Israel's ban on the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA will be disastrous, the aid agency's chief has told the Security...