New Zealand should never have joined the war in Afghanistan
ANALYSIS: By Keith Locke
After the fall of Kabul, the obvious question for New Zealanders is whether we should ever have joined the American war...
NZ police chief says anti-lockdown protests ‘disappointing’
RNZ News
New Zealand police are out again today enforcing the rules of the level 4 lockdown concentrating on dealing with any illegal gatherings, ensuring...
Parkop blasts PNG Lands Department for failing to protect public parks
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has lashed out at the Papua New Guinean Department of Lands and Physical...
Tonga announces plans for national university with new bill
By Kālino Latu in Auckland
The challenges experienced by Tongan students having to study overseas will soon be over after the government has announced plans...
NZ lockdown streets silenced, 10 covid cases, police make ‘conspiracy’ arrests
RNZ News
New Zealand's streets were largely silent today as the three-day nationwide alert-level 4 lockdown kicked in with 10 cases of covid-19 reported so...
PNG’s Justice Minister Kramer takes on contractors over unfinished jobs
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Billions of kina are lost to undelivered state contracts every year in Papua New Guinea and investigations into some of these...
AUT student among 10 new delta cases of covid-19 in NZ...
RNZ News
An Auckland University of Technology (AUT) student who was at a lecture yesterday is among the 10 new cases of covid-19 reported in...
Auckland nurse worked four shifts not knowing she had virus –...
Today's New Zealand covid-19 media briefing. Video: RNZ News
RNZ News
The Auckland Hospital nurse who has tested positive for covid-19 worked four shifts not knowing...
Cook Islands suspends travel bubble with New Zealand – 5 delta...
Cook Islands News
Cook Islands has suspended the travel bubble with New Zealand after NZ officials reported new covid-19 community cases in Auckland.
Four new community...
13 Fijians trapped in Afghanistan safe as Suva plans to repatriate...
By Shanil Singh in Suva
Immigration Secretary Yogesh Karan has confirmed that 13 Fijians who are currently stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last...
With the Taliban return, 20 years of progress for women looks...
ANALYSIS: By Azadah Raz Mohammad, The University of Melbourne and Jenna Sapiano, Monash University
As the Taliban has taken control of the country, Afghanistan has...
NZ declares national level 4 lockdown over covid community case
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an alert-level 4 lockdown starting at 11.59pm tonight for seven days in Auckland and Coromandel,...
JERAA calls for urgent action to support Afghan journalists
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Journalism Research and Education Association of Australia (JERAA) has urged the Australian government to make a strong commitment to supporting...
Open letter from Papua: Indonesian state creates stalemate of injustice
OPEN LETTER: By Pastor Dr Socratez S. Yoman
The reality is that we now live under an Indonesian ruler who is anti-democratic, anti-justice, anti-freedom, anti-peace,...
More than 800 new Fiji covid cases, 26 deaths in 48...
RNZ Pacific
More than 800 cases of covid-19 have been reported in Fiji for the last 48 hours to 8am on Monday and the first...
Former PM Helen Clark says Taliban control ‘massive step backwards’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan shows "a catastrophic failure of intelligence in Western foreign policy"...
Indonesian police break up Papuan petition protests in crackdown
RNZ Pacific
A series of demonstrations in the West Papua region today have been forcibly stopped by Indonesian police.
The protests were organised by a network...
NZ ramps up efforts to get 30 citizens out of Kabul...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says work to get New Zealanders out of Afghanistan has ramped up, as commercial options become unavailable.
Yesterday the Ministry...
Chief shuns Fiji’s law talks in protest over ‘gross disrespect’ to...
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
Nadroga Navosa paramount chief Na Ka Levu Ratu Tevita Nabekwahiga Makutu says his province will not take part in the...
Tongan talk of the death penalty for worst drug offenders
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan legislature is now considering the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Bill 2021, which was introduced as a private members' bill by the...