Plea deal ends personal ordeal for Julian Assange, but still media...
Pacific Media Watch
The reported plea bargain between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States government brings to a close one of the darkest...
InsidePNG’s Sincha Dimara wins East-West ‘courage award’ for free press
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinean journalist Sincha Dimara, news editor at the online publication InsidePNG, is one of seven recipients of this year's East-West...
Fresh violence flares up in New Caledonia – 38 arrested
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Fresh violence has erupted in several parts of New Caledonia over the past three days, with...
People of the Indian diaspora in Pacific – another view through...
Asia Pacific Report
An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Former MP slams National’s stance on Samoa citizenship bill
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
A former National Party Member of Parliament says his late party looked "like dickheads" not supporting the first reading...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Shock over pro-independence leader charges, transfer to...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A group of pro-independence leaders charged with allegedly organising protests that turned into violent unrest in...
Aotearoa Caravan for Free Palestine reaches Auckland, joins downtown rally
Asia Pacific Report
The Aotearoa Caravan For a Free Palestine arrived in Auckland at the weekend and was greeted and supported by a large rally...
In Canada, a pattern of police intimidation of freelance journalists is...
COMMENTARY: By Savanna Craig
On the morning of April 15, I headed to a branch of Scotiabank in downtown Montreal to cover a pro-Palestine protest....
Pacific Media Conference to celebrate 30th birthday of Pacific Journalism Review
By Mark Pearson
Journalists, publishers, academics, diplomats and NGO representatives from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will gather for the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference hosted...
Does Israel really want to open a two-front war by attacking...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Parmeter, Australian National University
Among the many sayings attributed to Winston Churchill is, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed...
Former Green MP and ‘conscience of the year’ Keith Locke dies,...
RNZ News
Former Green MP Keith Locke, a passionate activist and anti-war critic once described as "conscience of the year", has died in hospital, aged...
‘Stop the violence, killing against Kanaks’ plea by Vanuatu MPs
Vanuatu Daily Post
All eight Members of Parliament from Vanuatu's Tafea Province have made a bold and powerful call to French President Emmanuel Macron to...
NZ Fiji indigenous business leaders promote ‘solesolevaki’ boost for commerce
Asia Pacific Report
A group of NZ-based Fiji business people have met in Auckland to plan a boost for indigenous participation in commerce.
And the iTaukei...
NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissions
RNZ Pacific
Public submissions have closed on a bill which would offer a pathway to New Zealand citizenship to a group of Samoans born between...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after...
‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been...
PSNA puts New Zealand govt ‘on notice’ over breaches of Genocide...
Asia Pacific Report
A pro-Palestinian advocacy group has put the New Zealand government "on notice" over its alleged complicity with Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence militant leaders arrested
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's security forces have arrested eight people believed to be involved in the organisation of...
No breakthrough in hostage Kiwi pilot talks held by West Papuan...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
All parties, including West Papuan pro-independence fighters who took Phillip Mehrtens hostage, want the New Zealand pilot released but...
French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
French police and gendarmes force were deployed around the political headquarters of the pro-independence Caledonian Union in Kanaky New Caledonia's Nouméa suburb...