Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
With no plans to evacuate their citizens from Honiara, the international community is closely monitoring the situation in the...
Pasifika communities in NZ reach ‘key vaccination milestones’
RNZ Pacific
Ninety percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their first covid-19 vaccine, while 11 district health boards (DHBs) have reached...
Solomon Islands: The painful reality – my day on the road...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Honiara residents walked for long distances to find shops and ATMs today with fewer or nor public transport...
Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Solomon Islands police have arrested more than 100 suspects as Honiara townspeople clean up after three days of rioting and looting...
Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has announced that he is filing a notice of a vote of no confidence...
Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building
RNZ Pacific
Police in Honiara have confirmed that three bodies have been found in one of the burnt out buildings in Chinatown after the rioting...
Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital
RNZ Pacific
The Governor General of Solomon Islands has declared a nightly curfew in the troubled capital Honiara, after a third day of looting and...
‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
Keynote speakers professor David Robie and Glenda Gloria, executive editor of Rappler, addressed “truth and justice” on the opening...
Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel
RNZ Pacific
Police in Solomon Islands were overrun as rioters and looters tore through the capital Honiara.
RNZ Pacific correspondent in Honiara, Elizabeth Osifelo, said exhausted...
Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two...
Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
A defiant Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has vowed tonight that he will not resign and will defend Solomon Islands democracy...
Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion
ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau
The riots in Honiara yesterday, disturbing the city’s normally quiet atmosphere, were unexpected but not surprising.
Someone made reference to a possible...
CPJ demands Facebook restore ‘censored’ press freedom awards video
The Committee to Protect Journalists press freedom 2021 video removed by Facebook, but still available on YouTube and Twitter. Video: CPJ (Hongkong crackdown at...
Rappler chief editor and Asia-Pacific media keynotes at ‘pandemic’ forum
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Report
A Filipina journalist who cut her teeth as a young reporter in the Marcos dictatorship years and now...
Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest
RNZ Pacific
A police station and several shops were set on fire by looters in Solomon Islands today after what started in the morning as...
NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light...
RNZ News
New Zealand's most restrictive border controls will be eased early next year, the government announced today.
Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand would not be...
NZ must help Pacific fight vaccine misinformation, says researcher
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...
Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of...
ANALYSIS: By Matheson Russell, University of Auckland
The news last week that University of Auckland public health researcher Dr Simon Thornley was retracting a co-authored...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 2: WS storytelling in more detail
In part one of my article on White Supremacy (WS), I articulated some of the...
Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark chides global pandemic ‘failures’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the global handling of the covid-19 pandemic is marred with failures, gaps and delays.
Clark is...