‘Entire Pacific region at risk’, says UNAIDS on Fiji HIV outbreak
RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Minister for Health and Medical Services has declared an HIV outbreak.
Dr Ratu Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu announced 1093 new HIV cases from the...
Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage
Pacific Media Watch
The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by...
Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels...
Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over...
Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose
The International Court of Justice heard last month that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have...
‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad has told an international conference in Bangkok that some of the most...
Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire,...
Asia Pacific Report
Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank-- mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the...
Samoa political update: Fiame prevails in leadership crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson and Lilomaiava Maina Vai
The Speaker of the House, Papali’i Li’o Taeu Masipau, decisively addressed a letter from FAST,...
Friend or foe? How Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire
ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago
Donald Trump is an unusual United States President in that he may be the first to strike greater...
Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace,...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies.
Still...
Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current
New Zealand's One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western...
Ethnic community leaders slam Lee’s removal from diversity portfolio
By Gaurav Sharma, RNZ IndoNZ senior journalist
Community leaders surprised by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's removal of Melissa Lee from the ethnic communities' portfolio are...
Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
A litmus test of Israel’s commitment to abandon genocide and start down the road towards lasting peace is whether they choose...
Vanuatu risks return to all-male parliament in snap election in spite...
By Leah Lowonbu in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s only incumbent female parliamentarian has lost her seat in a snap election leaving only one woman candidate in...
Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based world media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for international journalists to be given open access to the besieged...
‘Spectacular failure’ over Hamas an embarrassment for Netanyahu
Asia Pacific Report
Scenes of fully armed Hamas fighters in their green headbands escorting the three Israeli women hostages to their handover on the first...
Leaders Party on track to be Vanuatu’s largest bloc as coalition...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Port Vila and Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Vanuatu's Parliament is starting to take shape...
Australia still claims ‘not responsible’ for detainees, after UN body rulings
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The Australian government denies responsibility for asylum seekers detained in Nauru, following two decisions from the UN...
Netanyahu’s war on Hamas backfires as Gaza resistance holds strong
An Al-Jazeera Arabic special report translated by The Palestine Chronicle staff details how Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, aimed at dismantling Hamas and displacing...
Delay in Gaza ceasefire as Israel kills 19 fails to...
Asia Pacific Report
An almost three-hour delay for the start of the temporary ceasefire -- due to "technical difficulties", said the resistance movement Hamas --...