‘Never our intention to mock Jesus’ – Naked Samoans respond to...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pasifika comedy troupe Naked Samoans is facing a backlash from some members of the Pacific community over its promotional...
Open letter to NZME board – don’t allow alt-right Canadian billionaire...
OPEN LETTER: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog
NZME directors ‘have concerns’ about businessman Jim Grenon taking editorial control
NZME’s directors have...
Israel ‘deliberately targeting’ journalists in Gaza, says Australian author after latest...
Pacific Media Watch
Israel has been targeting journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory with more intensity since October 7, 2023, says Australian journalist and author...
Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape
RNZ Pacific
Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama has condemned the circulation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video depicting a physical confrontation between him and...
The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it...
Ian Powell: When apartheid met Zionism – the case for NZ...
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July...
Trump funding cuts on media impacts on independent Asia Pacific outlet
Pacific Media Watch
One of the many casualties of the Trump administration's crackdown on "soft power" that enabled many democratic media and truth to power...
100 children killed or wounded every day since Gaza ceasefire broken
Asia Pacific Report
The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...
With Hasbara failing, Israel placed Hossam Shabat on a kill list
While public opinion of Israel plummets, each day the genocide continues without significant repercussions only reinforces that they can ignore this opinion, writes Alex...
NZ’s refreshingly candid ex-envoy Phil Goff – why I spoke out...
Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind...
Jewish students chain themselves to Columbia gates to protest over ICE...
Democracy Now!
Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) this...
‘Not an extension of Australia’ – Trump’s tariffs ‘reinforces’ Norfolk Island’s...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Norfolk Island sees its United States tariff as an acknowledgment of independence from Australia.
Norfolk Island, despite being an Australian...
Evicted PNG settlement fears collective punishment over gang rape and killing
By Harlyne Joku and BenarNews staff
Residents of an informal Port Moresby settlement that was razed following the gang rape and murder of a woman...
New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs –...
ANALYSIS: By Niven Winchester, Auckland University of Technology
We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect...
Fiji slapped with Trump’s highest tariffs among Pacific countries
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Although New Zealand and Australia seem to have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's latest tariffs, some Pacific Islands...
Stoush breaks out between NZ Human Rights Commissioner and Jewish leader...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a...
Red Crescent Palestinians massacre: Global rule of law masquerade is over
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joe Gill
It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza.
Brazen crimes against humanity have become...
Supreme Court orders a recall of PNG parliament for no confidence...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must be recalled on April 8 to debate a...
It will take more than an Oscar to stop Israel’s West...
By Leilani Farha of The New Arab
"I started filming when we started to end." With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land,...
From Rongelap to Mejatto – how Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear...
The second of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the...