Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea
RNZ Pacific
Deported Canadian academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia is still vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South Pacific, says chancellor Lionel Aingimea.
Professor Ahluwalia...
Pacific women talk about ‘precarious situation’ over covid, climate and rights
By Josefa Babitu
A French Polynesian territorial government cabinet minister says the pandemic and climate justice have provided an opportunity to think about the progress...
Surprise apology to Micronesia over Forum leadership election row
RNZ Pacific
Micronesian leaders have received an apology from their colleagues in the Pacific Islands Forum.
In what has been described as a frank and open...
Fiji stops police passes at containment zone borders as covid cases...
By Vijay Narayan and Semi Turaga in Suva
Fiji's Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr James Fong, has confirmed that the Health Ministry has stopped police...
Vanuatu must maintain strong support for West Papua, says Regenvanu
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu needs to continue to maintain its strong support for West Papua by ensuring that the United Liberation Movement...
Australian journalists’ union urges new approach to media regulation
International Federation of Journalists
Australia’s journalists’ union – the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) – has voted to end its decades long relationship with...
NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque...
By Phil Pennington, RNZ News reporter
It took seven months for the New Zealand police to set up their first team for scanning the internet...
Qiane Matata-Sipu: Why kaupapa always comes first
COMMENT: By Qiane Matata-Sipu
Yesterday I worked a 13-hour day unpaid. It’s pretty common in my world. It’s pretty common in the worlds of Indigenous...
Indonesian families remember victims of Bali submarine disaster – 53 die
By Ardila Syakriah and Reno Surya in Jakarta and Surabaya
The hopes of the families of the sailors aboard the Indonesian Navy’s KRI Nanggala-402 submarine...
Shailendra Singh: Some tough covid questions for Fiji after 12 more...
COMMENT: By Shailendra Singh in Suva
Perth in Australia was plunged into a three-day lockdown after community transmission was linked to a returnee from India.
Fiji...
Indonesia slammed for inviting Myanmar coup leader to ASEAN
By Ryan Aditya in Jakarta
Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Fatia Maulidiyanti has condemned the invitation to Myanmar coup leader...
Police scuffle with protesters against Myanmar junta leader at ASEAN
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Police have forced protesters demonstrating at the weekend against the attendance of Myanmar military commander General Min Aung Hlaing at the...
Oil companies get caught spying on NZ children and the story...
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...
Jennifer Robinson – fighting for Assange, Papua and public education
RNZ Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill
Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been described as the go-to barrister for London's rich and famous.
Standing by...
Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for...
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
Addressing the...
Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”,...
Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea
RNZ News
A New Zealand veteran who fought in Korea told of his experience of war and the horror of seeing napalm used for the...
An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago.
Rupert Brooke, 26, was...
Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports
By Reza Gunadha and Chyntia Sami Bhayangkara in Jayapura
Victor Mambor, journalist and editor of the Papua-based Tabloid Jubi, has become the target of a...
Papuan protest outside UN after Anari gagged for second time
Papuan protesters outside the United Nations headquarters yesterday after John Anari was gagged again from making a full statement at the UN Permanent Forum...