Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister
OBITUARY: By Scott Waide in Lae
For many Papua New Guineans, Sir Mekere Morauta will be remembered as the straight shooting politician and the reformist...
Papuan students succeed in NZ – ‘the golden generation from Papua’
By Laurens Ikinia
As late South African President Nelson Mandela said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”...
Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true
Asia Pacific Report
For Margaret Mills, adventurer, environmental campaigner, activist poet and Greenpeace stalwart, it was a lifetime dream coming true at 91.
When she opened...
The Great Divider: Covid-19 reflects global racism, not equality
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud
The notion that the covid-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal...
Police, TNI raid Papuan secretariat in Merauke – 14 activists arrested
By Charles Maniani in Manokwari
Indonesian Mobile Brigade (Brimob) paramilitary police, national police intelligence officers (intel) and the army's special forces (Kopassus) have stormed the...
Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter
Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland's lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand...
Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role
By Laurens Ikinia
A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French...
Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist
Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other...
Fiji declares state of disaster as TC Yasa wreaks havoc in...
By RNZ Pacific
Many houses in Fiji's Vanua Levu have been destroyed, some families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses and others in...
The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
The uproar over the recent fisticuffs between Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Fiji may have subsided, with the Fijian...
RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...
Trans-Tasman bubble to help reunify families, business, says epidemiologist
By RNZ News
It is looking increasingly likely that the much discussed trans-Tasman bubble is finally on the way.
Cabinet has agreed in principle to quarantine-free...
Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?
SPECIAL REPORT: The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a...
Closures, cuts, revival and rebirth – how covid reshaped NZ media...
ANALYSIS: By Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology
When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level...
Editor tells how US nuclear testing legacy ‘festers on’ in Marshall...
By RNZ Saturday Morning
The US detonated its largest nuclear bombs around the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 1950s - but the Marshallese are...
Hong Kong police charge Apple Daily founder Lai with ‘foreign collusion’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Hong Kong police force has charged media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Digital Limited, which owns the Apple...
Rights group records 40 violations in Papua in 2020 – cases...
By Nicholas Ryan Aditya in Jakarta
Indonesia's Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has found 40 incidents of human rights violations in...
Gallery: ‘Admirable leadership’ of young Pacific Climate Warriors clinches peace prize
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
The Pacific Climate Warriors are the winners of the Pax Christi International Peace Prize 2020.
On making the judgment, the members of...
Tension rises in New Caledonia over Brazilian miner Vale’s bail out...
BACKGROUNDER: By Michael Field
Efforts by Brazilian miner Vale SA to extract itself from one of the world’s largest nickel and cobalt operations are creating...
Pacific Climate Warriors win global award as struggle gets ‘personal’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Pacific Climate Warrior today told of personal struggles that impact on island people in the region and how this inspires...