Sogavare reassures Solomon Islands on health of 6 covid positive students
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare today has reassured the nation and parents of six students who have tested positive...
Media freedom watchdogs condemn Indonesian assaults on journalists
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists and the Alliance of Independent Journalists have expressed concern over reports that several local journalists have...
Auckland mayor Phil Goff slams rash of ‘obnoxious lies’ over covid
By RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says people in the city are, by and large, following the rules and prosecution shouldn't be ruled out...
Raivet now in contention as vote count progresses in Bougainville
By RNZ Pacific
Thomas Raivet has roared into contention as the Bougainville presidential vote count continues while former rebel military leader Ishmael Toroama retains the...
Looking at the realities of Pacific food security – in Tongan
The Tongan video in the AUT Pacific language series.
By AUT News
The Tonga episode in Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific language video series – Adapting...
Audit report slams ‘flawed’ PNG health management, ‘extravagant lifestyles’
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Flaws in Papua New Guinea's public health system and the medicine supply chain are because of poor management in...
NZ churches with US links blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation
By Anusha Bradley, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand churches with US links are being blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation.
Health Minister Chris Hipkins has said some...
PNG murder case against alleged killer of Jenelyn Kennedy delayed again
By Boura Gorukila in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinea court has given police three more weeks to submit their evidence against Bosip Kaiwi, who...
New covid-19 cases in Tahiti raises tally to 820 – 6...
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has recorded another 47 covid-19 cases, raising the tally to 820.
Health officials report that 758 of them were recorded since...
John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange – press freedom...
ANALYSIS: By John Pilger in London
When I first met Julian Assange more than 10 years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks....
Rogue PNG police spray senior officer’s home with bullets in Father’s...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A man is in Papua New Guinea police custody and investigations are underway after the home of a senior...
NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist
New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India...
Indria Fernida: Long road to see justice over Munir’s murder
By Indria Fernida in Jakarta
Yesterday, 16 years ago, Munir Said Thailb, a defender of human rights, was murdered with arsenic poison aboard a Garuda...
PNG sex workers plead for help after one gang-raped, beaten, left...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Sex workers have urged the Papua New Guinea government to pass a law to protect them after one of...
Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc.
The US-based global entertainment company...
NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc
By RNZ News
New Zealand's MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc.
The deal includes channels Three and Bravo,...
Assange’s UK detention violates international law – Australia must intervene
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, a film by Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli
By Simon Floth in Armidale, NSW
Julian Assange is scheduled to...
‘We don’t interfere in other countries’ affairs,’ says Tongan PM on...
By Philip Cass in Auckland
“Tonga does not interfere in other nations’ own affairs.”
That was the carefully measured response from Prime Minister Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa to the...
Cracks in New Zealand’s covid-proof team of 5 million? The facts
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
This week The New Zealand Herald admitted a story about resentment of Auckland's covid-19 lockdowns didn’t quite...
Farewell, Papa Joe – a Pacific beacon of calm and wise...
TRIBUTE: Dr Collin Tukuitonga farewells his mentor, Dr Joe Williams, who died on Friday night after a battle with covid-19.
I have a lot for...