Fatal Solomon Is blast highlights key threat in country littered with...
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
A deadly explosion in the Solomon Islands capital has caused fear and confusion about the ongoing threat posed by...
Marilyn Garson: Nakba is an event in the present tense –...
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson
I woke up to the news and fear cut into me for my family in Israel. Where are they right now? ...
Free Victor Yeimo now, says exiled Papuan leader Benny Wenda
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An exiled West Papuan leader has demanded the immediate release of arrested campaigner Victor Yeimo, saying that his detention was a...
PNG fugitive Tommy Baker’s prison rescue bids fail – but another...
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Two attempts by Papua New Guinea’s most wanted man, Tommy Baker, to rescue 11 members of his notorious gang...
‘We were really terrified,’ says Dunedin supermarket stabbing witness
RNZ News
A man who was at the Countdown supermarket in New Zealand's South Island city of Dunedin when four people were stabbed has described...
Timor-Leste reports 126 more covid cases – almost all in Dili
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
The Timor-Leste health authorities have registered a total of 126 new infections with SARS-CoV-2 in the last 24 hours, almost...
Indonesian police seize Papuan leader Victor Yeimo on ‘treason’ claims
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Papuan leader who has been sought by Indonesian police over the 2019 Papua "Spring" uprising, Victor Yeimo, has been arrested...
Brutality escalates as Indonesian crackdown takes force in Papua
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Brutality in West Papua has escalates with civilian and military casualties in the past month, reports SBS News.
The killing of Indonesia’s...
What’s the Valneva covid-19 vaccine, the French shot that’s supposed to...
ANALYSIS: By Adam Taylor, Griffith University
A covid-19 vaccine from French company Valneva has yet to complete clinical trials. But it has caught the eye...
Fiji reports three new community covid cases – two patients recover
By Talebula Kate in Suva
After 1616 tests in the past 24 hours, Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services has reported three new cases...
He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’
ANALYSIS: By Meriana Johnsen, RNZ News political reporter
It was supposed to chart a new way forward but He Puapua, a report on how the...
Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
The caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, thinks the newspaper you hold in your hands is dedicated...
Myanmar: If independent media dies, democracy dies
ANALYSIS: By Phil Thornton
As chaos flows in Burma, journalists are being forced to hide in plain sight by the Burmese military, writes senior journalist...
Don’t brand West Papuan resistance OPM ‘terrorist’, say ex-general, critics
General Gatot Nurmantyo, a former commander in the Indonesian National Armed Forces, giving his television interview - in Bahasa Indonesian. Video: TV-One Indonesia
Asia Pacific...
PNG police release EMTV employee detained over buai market video
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Papua New Guinean police have released a detained EMTV staff man, Richard Magei, after he reportedly filmed officers destroying buai markets...
Fiji reports 7 new local covid cases as memory lapses ‘cost...
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji has today reported seven new cases of covid-19 and all are locally transmitted cases. These were confirmed after 1349...
Terrorist tag in West Papua could worsen racism, says rights group
RNZ Pacific
Human Rights Watch is urging the Indonesian government to rethink its classification of rebels in West Papua as terrorists.
Indonesia has formally designated Papuan...
Where will NZ stand in rising tensions between China and other...
ANALYSIS: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor
Rising tensions between Australia and China have raised the question of where New Zealand would stand if...
Media alliance calls in Jokowi’s pledge to allow foreign journalists into...
By Achmad Nasrudin Yahya in Jakarta
The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) is calling in a pledge made by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in 2015...
Fiji’s Lautoka hospital plunges into lockdown over new covid case
By Timoci Vula in Lautoka, Fiji
Fiji's Lautoka Hospital is now closed to members of the public after a new positive case announced last night...