Remembering Nelson Anjain: A champion for nuclear justice in the Pacific
SPECIAL REPORT: By Talei Luscia Mangioni
“I realise now that your entire career is based on our illness. We are far more valuable to you...
Myanmar’s Bloody Sunday – security forces ‘live tracking’ media, protesters
By Phil Thornton in Bangkok
The Myanmar army, police and militia’s use of violence against peaceful protestors reached another level on Sunday, February 28.
By 5pm, local...
Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election
By RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's 11 newly elected ministers have again failed to elect a new president.
Like two weeks ago, none of the three...
Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian...
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga
A group of Tongan missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Papua New...
NZ covid: ‘We should be TikToking information’, says Pacific advocate
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government is being told to roll out clearer and smarter communications around the latest covid-19 community outbreak, to make...
Parkop pledges no lockdown in Port Moresby due to ‘precarious’ economy
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Governor Powes Parkop says there will be no lockdown in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District (NCD) despite a...
Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis
Last month, I wrote on Facebook that the resumption of my blog Grubsheet for 2021 was being postponed out of consideration...
NZ covid: Ardern on latest 3 cases: ‘Everyone is angry… we...
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she gets that everyone is angry over the latest New Zealand community covid-19 cases after it emerged...
NZ’s international student downturn costs 700 university jobs
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News reporter
Nearly 700 university staff are losing or leaving their jobs in New Zealand because of a financial hole left...
NZ covid: Not following rules ‘puts all of us at risk’,...
By RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff wants tougher measures against people ignoring New Zealand's covid-19 health guidance.
He said it was frustrating to learn one...
Covid-19: Auckland back to alert level three following new NZ cases
By RNZ News
Auckland will move to alert level 3 for a week at 6am tomorrow morning after two new covid-19 community cases in New...
Timor-Leste: Political leadership, patriarchal relationships, and the paedophile ex-priest
ANALYSIS: By Sara Niner
Xanana Gusmao’s recent contrived jovial participation in the birthday celebrations of "self-professed" paedophile and defrocked foreign priest Richard Daschbach has shocked many...
Michael Somare – the passing of a great man, Sana, the...
By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea
Sir Michael was a man of many titles. He was father, grandfather and chief.
As a tribal leader,...
Obituary: Sir Michael Somare, ‘father’ of PNG and colossus of Pacific...
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Ritchie, Deakin University
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, former prime minister of Papua New Guinea and a giant of Pacific politics, has...
‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems...
ANALYSIS: By Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University, and Michael Depledge, University of Exeter
In 1992, 1700...
Papua New Guinea in grief after Grand Chief Somare, 84, passes...
Asia Pacific Report
Papua New Guineans awoke this morning to great sadness, reports the PNG Post-Courier.
As the bells tolled with the sad news of the...
Papuan protesters claim police using covid rapid tests to curb free...
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian police have asked participants at a protest action against Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua to take covid-19 rapid tests at the...
USP saga – small leak hints at big problems with the...
By Michael Field
As the fate of the University of the South Pacific remains on edge, a small leak of a personal file hints at...
USP chancellor condemns Fiji’s treatment of Pal – now in Nauru
By Litia Cava in Suva
Never again should a University of the South Pacific staff member be treated in the manner vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia...
‘Crisis within a crisis’: Violence more risky for Fiji women than...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
Much of archipelagic Fiji was forced indoors by lockdowns and a nationwide curfew in March last year when...