RSF launches new #FreeAssange petition as UK’s Home Secretary considers extradition...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Following a district court order referring the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back to the United Kingdom's Home Office, Reporters...
West Papuan students’ dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled
SPECIAL REPORT: By Marian Faa of ABC Pacific Beat
As a child, Efika Kora remembers watching planes glide over her remote village in the Pacific.
Transfixed,...
Marwan Bishara: French presidential elections: It’s déjà vu all over again
ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara
The French have done it again. Despite having been utterly scandalised by the result of their own vote in the 2017...
Kanak pro-independence parties urge supporters to boycott French election
RNZ Pacific
Several pro-independence parties in New Caledonia are urging supporters to boycott the second round of the French presidential elections this Sunday.
The election pits...
Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist
Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says the country needs an economic solution to its instability problems,...
Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was...
COMMENTARY: By Professor Rod Jackson
In a recent article (Weekend Herald, April 16) John Roughan wrote that the covid-19 pandemic has been an anticlimax in...
José Ramos-Horta declares victory in Timor-Leste presidential election
RNZ News
Independence leader and Nobel laureate José Ramos-Horta has declared victory in Timor-Leste's presidential election, saying he had secured "overwhelming" support and would now...
Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Pacific Elders’ Voice has expressed deep concern about reports of deteriorating human rights in West Papua and has appealed to...
Dan McGarry: How to do something about Australia’s Pacific ‘stuff up’
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry
If the coming election goes to Australia’s Labor party, Penny Wong is very likely to become Foreign Minister. So...
‘Respect’ work of journalists and media, Masi tells Solomons police
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (Masi) has called on the police to respect journalists and media workers when carrying out...
Sogavare adamant deal with China won’t undermine regional security
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Solomon Islands prime minister is adamant a security co-operation agreement his...
Fiji court orders oligarch’s super yacht to remain as US files...
RNZ Pacific
The High Court in Suva has allowed an application by the public prosecutor to stop the super yacht Amadea belonging to Russian billionaire...
Indonesia’s defensive response to US human rights report bodes ill for...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The government has responded with a counter attack to a critical report on human rights practices in Indonesia that was released...
MP warns Solomons-China security pact could ‘inflame tensions’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent
A senior Solomon Islands opposition MP has warned that the controversial security agreement with China could result in...
Sorcery accusation-related violence still plagues Papua New Guinea
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mong Palatino
In Papua New Guinea, some already disenfranchised women have to face an added burden of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV). However,...
Port Moresby public’s cry for safe public transport finally answered
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The public’s cry for a safe, affordable and efficient public transport system in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby...
‘You feel a little bit less cautious’ – families adjusting to...
By Soumya Bhamidipati, RNZ News journalist
The orange light pandemic setting in Aotearoa New Zealand has brought a sense of relief for parents, as the...
New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital journalist
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have added a focus on climate...
PNG’s political system ‘being hijacked’ by leaders, warns analyst over election
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Only two of Papua New Guinea's general elections -- in 1992 and 1997 -- have had some semblance of...
Gavin Ellis: Show us the full horror of war in Ukraine
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Atrocities and total war are not pixilated or sanitised. They bring death with unimaginable brutality and obliterate lives with indifference. It...









































