Iwi Chairs forum urges covid cap on NZ-bound travel, faster vaccine...
By Te Aorewa Rolleston, RNZ News Te Ao Māori affairs
The National iwi chairs forum has put forward six recommendations to the New Zealand government...
Billy Te Kahika spreads covid-19 misinformation at Parliament rally
By RNZ News
A ragtag group of about 150 people gathered on the New Zealand Parliament's forecourt today to demand an end to covid-19 lockdowns.
The...
With covid-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border...
ANALYSIS: By Nick Wilson, University of Otago and Michael Baker, University of Otago
The global covid-19 pandemic is intensifying, with more infectious variants of the...
Netherlands adds voice to global demands for UN visit to West...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesia's former coloniser, the Netherlands, has become the 83rd international state calling for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to...
NZ plans to allow 1000 overseas students into the country
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government will allow 1000 foreign students to enter the country from April as part of the recovery plan for...
Did sense of betrayal lead Tonga’s Fā’otusia to miss confidence vote?
ANALYSIS: By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Was Tonga's Hon. Vuna Fā’otusia betrayed by his close friends from the nobility and cabinet while being...
Papuan landowner advocate condemns diocese link to palm oil companies
By Ans K in Merauke, Papua
Mama Elisabeth Ndiwaen, one of the Papuan landowners who has been strongly critical of highlighting oil palm investment in...
NZ’s latest covid measures branded as both too strong and too...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
The New Zealand government is feeling the pressure from all sides on covid-19 with critics calling the...
Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky...
ANALYSIS: By Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong
President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his...
The Intan Jaya conflict 3: New autonomous region, new conflict
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – final article of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination
Intan Jaya district in Papua,...
Tahiti’s covid-19 death tally rises to 122 – 17,000 plus cases
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has recorded another covid-19 death, raising the pandemic's tally to 122.
There are 46 people with covid-19 in hospital, 21 of...
‘This is a banana republic?’ – the Caribbean reacts to the...
ANALYSIS: By Janine Mendes-Franco and Emma Lewis
As armed supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump forced their way into the United States Capitol last...
The Intan Jaya conflict 2: Violence at the cost of many...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Victor Mambor in Jayapura – second of a three-part investigation into the Pastor Yeremia Zanambani assassination.
The atmosphere on Saturday morning, 19...
Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches
By RNZ News
A cyber security expert says attacks like the latest on the Reserve Bank could be due to the type of data systems...
Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back...
ANALYSIS: By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University
Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However,...
Covid-19: UK variant raises risk of NZ community transmission, says expert
By RNZ News
New Zealand faces an increased risk of community transmission from the UK strain of covid-19 that is now arriving in the country,...
Body parts found at Sriwijaya Air crash site in Indonesia –...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Body parts and debris were hauled from waters near Indonesia's capital Jakarta today from a Boeing passenger plane that crashed shortly...
A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations...
Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill
By RNZ Pacific
The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress.
In...
Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to...











































