Waitangi Day: Emerging Generation B changes face of Aotearoa
SPECIAL REPORT: Koro Vaka'uta, an RNZ Pacific journalist, reports on a Māori-Pasifika culture shift in Aotearoa New Zealand as the country today marks 181...
A bruising 24 hours in the Pacific – three key questions...
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Pryke in Sydney
After a divisive marathon meeting into the early hours of Thursday, Pacific leaders have emerged with a new Secretary-General...
Forum calls for ‘due process’ over USP, probe into Ahluwalia deportation
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Pacific Islands Forum chair Kausea Natano has described the University of the South Pacific as a "shining example of regionalism" and...
Myanmar coup: Asian response echoes ‘democracy comes with stability’ adage
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne
Both coverage in the Asian press and statements by neighbouring Asian governments reported in the media on the grabbing of exclusive...
Timorese Press Council criticises media coverage of Xanana’s controversial visit to...
By Lusa News in Dili
The Timorese Press Council today asked journalists to avoid being "messenger boys", referring to the publication of a statement about...
Case of ‘beating up the whistleblower,’ says deported USP chief
By PACNEWS/ABC
The deported head of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, says his expulsion from Fiji is “a classic case of...
Call for AUT vice-chancellor to resign after scathing report into bullying
By RNZ News
A senior academic staff member at the Auckland University of Technology wants the vice-chancellor to resign following a scathing report into bullying.
The...
USP staff, students condemn Fiji ‘Gestapo’ tactics, demand Ahluwalia’s return
By Wansolwara staff
Staff, students and alumni of the University of the South Pacific have called on the Fiji government to immediately reinstate the work...
Politicians, educators, advocates blast Fiji’s ‘barbaric’ expulsion of USP head
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Politicians, educators and civil society advocates around the region today condemned the "barbaric" and "shameful" detention and deportation of the regional...
Fiji immigration officials, police deport USP chief Ahluwalia in swoop
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji Immigration officials and police have detained and expelled the University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and his...
New Caledonia government collapses amid storm and assets sale crisis
By RNZ Pacific
A coalition government in New Caledonia has collapsed after indigenous pro-independence politicians resigned, citing persistent economic issues and unrest over the sale...
Former Cook Islands PM elected new secretary-general of PIF in close...
By RNZ Pacific
Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna has been narrowly elected as the new secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum after a...
Mana Wāhine inquiry hearing: Original claimant Ripeka Evans gives evidence
By Māni Dunlop, RNZ News Māori News Director
New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal has heard the voices of Māori women have been marginalised for far too...
NZ’s Medsafe grants Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine provisional approval
By RNZ News
New Zealand's medicines regulator Medsafe has provisionally approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against covid-19, with certain conditions placed on the company.
In its assessment...
Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission this week released its long-anticipated advice to the...
Happy birthday Tahiti’s Mama Tini – celebrating with 100 candles, family
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Today was an extraordinary birthday for Tahiti's Mama Tini, as she is known locally - she turned 100.
Emma Temaiana-Tehaamatai celebrated her...
Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...
Scott Waide: Playwright Andrew Kuliniasi unleashes another creative bomb – on...
COMMENT: By Scott Waide
In a nation such as Papua New Guinea where oral storytelling is central to the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and wisdom,...
Indonesian doctors challenge Jokowi’s claim pandemic is ‘under control’
By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta
Jakarta Indonesian Doctor's Association (IDI) chairperson Slamet Budiarto has challenged a statement by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who has claimed that...
‘Don’t turn away any student’, Marape tells PNG schools
By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has instructed schools to enrol all children who turn up for the...






































