French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou's first visit to New Caledonia is marked by marathon political...
Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish...
Middle East Monitor
Israeli soldiers have revealed that Palestinian civilians were killed inside Gaza in a free-for-all at the wish of army officers amid a...
Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support
RNZ Pacific
An Israeli minister touring the Pacific to discuss defence and cooperation says Fiji and Papua New Guinea are “great friends”.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister...
80 Camarines Norte barangays isolated after Typhoon Uwan hits Philippines
By Vince Angelo Ferreras in Daet, Philippines
Several barangays in Camarines Norte were heavily battered by the powerful winds and rains from Typhoon Uwan --...
COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific nations are at the world's biggest climate talks making the familiar...
Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report
Pacific Media Watch
The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in...
NZ’s Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war
ANALYSIS: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson...
New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership
Asia Pacific Media Network
Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future,...
Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on...
RNZ Pacific
Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative...
Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in...
Asia Pacific Report
In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30...
‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for...
Asia Pacific Report
A Pacific people's mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a "profound sense of distrust" in the French state's role...
Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy
As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now also pose lethal risks in environmental and health catastrophe.
SPECIAL...
NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland's Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while...
Gaza ‘ceasefire’ simply means that Israel can do whatever it wants....
A Gaza resident tells his story of the struggle to survive in Israel's Gaza genocide today, "ceasefire" or not.
SPECIAL REPORT: By Qasem Waleed El-Farra
On...
NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate
RNZ News
The current New Zealand government has a "Trumpian accent" that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world's leading...
‘We’re running out of time’: PNG parents in desperate plea to...
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The parents of conjoined twins in Papua New Guinea have made a desperate global appeal to try to...
Why Blue Pacific’s infrastructure distress is a cocktail poisoning human development...
Keeping a line of sight to the challenges of both COP30 in Brazil next week and also the subsequent Pacific's COP31. A Pacific perspective.
COMMENTARY:...
Censorship crusade: Israel targets platforms and online archives to ‘rewrite Gaza’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh
Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...
Bryce Edwards: Mamdani lessons – NZ left need to catch up...
COMMENTARY: By Bryce Edwards
Yesterday’s victory of “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in the race for the New York mayoralty is fuelling debate among progressives around...
New dates for French minister Moutchou’s visit to New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Newly appointed French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou has now rescheduled her first visit to New...










































