PNG’s Marape and NZ’s Luxon sign new partnership marking 50 years
RNZ News
The prime ministers of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea have signed a new statement of partnership marking 50 years of bilateral relations...
Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine...
ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so...
‘Tell the world the truth,’ father tells dead son as Israel...
Pacific Media Watch
Global media freedom groups have condemned the Israeli occupation forces for assassinating two more Palestinian journalists covering the Gaza genocide, taking the...
PNG ‘test ban’ blocks Facebook – governor Bird warns of tyranny...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The Papua New Guinea government has admitted to using a technology that it says was "successfully tested" to...
Chris Hedges: The last chapter of the Gaza Strip genocide
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other...
Fiji solidarity group condemns Rabuka plans for embassy in Jerusalem
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji-based Pacific solidarity group supporting the indigenous Palestine struggle for survival against the Israeli settler colonial state has today issued a...
Activist group praises Pacific support for West Papua but slams NZ
By Christine Rovoi of PMN News
A human rights group in Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed support from several Pacific island nations for West Papua,...
France’s Southern Cross regional military exercise moves to Wallis
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Southern Cross, a French-hosted regional military exercise, is moving to Wallis and Futuna Islands this year.
The...
Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge Peters at state of the nation speech
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Christchurch
Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister...
Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’...
Asia Pacific Report
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called on New Zealand government MPs today to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its...
Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence
By Leah Lowonbu, Stefan Armbruster and Harlyne Joku of BenarNews
The Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signalled they are ready to engage with Papua New...
Israel’s former chief justice Aharon Barak fears state risks ‘civil war’
Pacific Media Watch
Israel’s most revered jurist, former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, says that he fears the Netanyahu government’s latest actions, including moves to...
Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels...
Asia Pacific Report
A joint operation between the Fiji Police Force, Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF), Territorial Force Brigade, Fiji Navy and National Fire...
US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister
By Alex Willemyns for Radio Free Asia
The Trump administration might let hundreds of millions of dollars in aid pledged to Pacific island nations during...
PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville's push for independence are planning to...
Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to...
Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report, about heightened...
Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...
‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...
Netanyahu commits a new ‘bloodbath in Gaza’ to save himself
Asia Pacific Report
At least 400 people have been killed after a surprise Israeli attack on Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Israeli government...
Hipkins accuses PM of undermining NZ’s nuclear-free stance in India memo
RNZ News
New Zealand opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins is accusing the prime minister of reversing a long-held foreign policy during his current trip to...






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