Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our...
COMMENT: By Professor Biman Prasad
Pictures and videos emerging about the shocking and deplorable conditions for covid-isolated patients in Fiji hospitals are no surprise. Nor...
Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries -- including New Zealand -- to provide urgent humanitarian...
The Jakarta Post: New deal, old approach over West Papua
EDITORIAL: By the editorial board of The Jakarta Post
The unanimous House of Representatives decision in Indonesia last week to endorse the revised Papuan Special...
Calls for NZ to ‘feed the 5 million first’ before exporting...
By Farah Hancock, RNZ data journalist, In Depth
People are going hungry even though New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million -- and...
Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies is a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour....
Pregnant PNG teacher Jerolyn walks 25km for her unborn baby –...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Patrick Angrai
Jerolyn Arimbandai was the only woman teacher of a newly established Catholic-run high school in the Middle Ramu district of...
NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness
RNZ News
New Zealand's cyber security agency believes China has been behind numerous hack attacks spanning years.
The government joined Western allies and Japan in calling...
‘We’ll be extinct,’ warns West Papuan churches, call for halt to...
Tabloid Jubi in Jayapura
The West Papuan Council of Churches (WPCC) has condemned the Indonesian government's Special Autonomy (Otsus) law ratified by the Jakarta parliament...
Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry, The Village Explainer
I wasn’t invited to the inaugural Vanuatu media awards a couple of weeks ago. Nor was I asked...
784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded 784 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours to 8am on Monday.
That compares to 1043 cases in the previous...
NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says...
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to...
714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People's Petition (PRP) have rejected last week's...
Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy
RNZ Pacific
Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests.
The...
NZ media fund gives boost to new Māori journalism projects, training
RNZ Mediawatch
The first tranche of the New Zealand government’s $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund has been allocated - against a backdrop of criticism...
Major NZ media networks collaborate to develop talented Pacific journalists
Pacific Media Network News
The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...
NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners back Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of...
Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape'ete
Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui's anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā'ohi Lives...
Indonesian lawmakers adopt unpopular bill to reshape Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill that is expected to reshape the future administration...
Susana Lei’ataua named as RNZ Pacific’s new news editor
RNZ Pacific
Susana Lei'ataua has been appointed news editor of RNZ Pacific.
She will join RNZ Pacific officially in August and brings a wealth of experience,...
Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded a daily record 1405 new cases of covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday.
That compares to 1220 cases...