Whakarewarewa: A silence not heard in 100 years thanks to covid-19
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ Manu Korihi reporter
New Zealand's border restrictions have cut off more than 90 percent of visitors to Rotorua's oldest tourism...
Vice-president forced out of Timorese Parliament in bitter row
By Evaristo Soares Martins and Robert Baird in Dili
The Vice-President of Timor-Leste's National Parliament, Maria Angelina Sarmento, has been physically removed from a plenary...
Five holdup bandits killed by PNG police posing as bus passengers
By Gynnie Kero in Madang
Five men have died in a shootout with Papua New Guinea police near Madang after they tried to hold up...
Southern Cross features ‘The Road’ and Papuan repression
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi discusses a new book today on West Papua, The Road: Uprising in West Papua, reviewed...
West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not...
REVIEW: By David Robie
The 4300-km Trans-Papua Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring “wealth, development and prosperity” to the isolated regions of...
Covid-19 pandemic ‘spells end of neoliberal era’, says author
By RNZ News
Many people have revelled in a return to a simpler life in recent weeks. While lockdown restrictions are eased in many...
A lone Māori voice raising Te Ao issues at the covid-19...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...
Amidst coronavirus lockdown, biggest Philippines TV network goes off air
On Al Jazeera's The Listening Post this week: The Filipino government has forced local television network ABS-CBN off the air. Plus, covid-19 is used...
Former PM Helen Clark backs people’s vaccine as public good for...
By RNZ News
It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for covid-19 coronavirus is widely available, says former New...
Timor-Leste now ruled free of active cases of covid-19
By Robert Baird in Dili
Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say...
Java on ‘red alert’ as coronavirus deaths spike in Indonesia
By Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko in Jakarta/Bandung/Blitar/Semarang
Indonesia’s most populous island of Java has become the country’s epicentre of the...
Fiji High Court judge throws out ‘cruel’ fines for covid rule...
By RNZ Pacific
A High Court judge in Fiji has thrown out fines handed to 49 people who were caught breaching curfew or social gathering...
Remembering Menyamya schoolboy skills with bow and arrow in PNG
COMMENT: By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea
The primary weapon of choice for Papua New Guinea tribes spread out over the Upper Watut...
NZ’s new covid action: $50bn rescue fund in ‘once in a...
By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News
A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...
Gallery: The virus shackles are off … but where was the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New...
PNG military hand over three suspects in police officer killing
By EMTV Online
The PNG Defence Force has handed over three suspects for the killing of police Senior Inspector Andrew Tovere to the investigating police.
Assistant...
Fiji 33 years after the first fateful coup – a failed...
COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji.
Today is the...
RIMPAC 2020 maritime exercises ‘all at sea’ as virus, protests put...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Quietly passing us by in these frenetic covid-19 coronavirus weeks as New Zealand takes a big step back to...
NZ coronavirus state of emergency lifted – replaced by transition period
By RNZ News
The state of emergency across New Zealand has been lifted on the eve of alert level 2 - putting the country in...
Inside Indonesia’s Secret War for West Papua – Foreign Correspondent
The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC.
By ABC News Indepth
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...