Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter
The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over...
Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has become the 14th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member state to join the South Pacific's nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament treaty.
The...
Manurewa’s first Pan-Pacific strategy aims to amplify Pasifika voices
By Mary Afemata, Local Democracy Reporting
The Manurewa Local Board is developing its first Pan-Pacific strategy in Aotearoa New Zealand to amplify Pasifika voices in...
RSF slams ‘horrific conditions’ for journalists in Gaza in wake of...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed support for Gaza's media professionals and called on Israel to urgently lift...
NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England
Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links New...
‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer...
DOCUMENTARY: Democracy Now!
The Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
The film -- recently screened in...
‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of...
Asia Pacific Report
The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...
NZ must protest Israel’s latest ‘weasel out’ war crime cutting humanitarian...
Asia Pacific Report
One of the leading Palestinian solidarity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has demanded that the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all...
French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay...
Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence.
Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men...
In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding...
Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter
Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...
Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...
Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western...
Pacific Media Watch
With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange, Israel's military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands...
Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear...
Asia Pacific Report
In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network
Tongan community leaders and artists in New Zealand have criticised the Treaty Principles Bill while highlighting the ongoing...
Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News
As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...