Rabuka reveals details of 1987 coup navy ‘secret weapons mission’
By Litia Cava, FBC News multimedia journalist
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has revealed how arms and ammunition used to conduct the 1987 military coup...
NZ’s Z Energy renames stations with ‘correct’ kupu
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern at RNZ News
The New Zealand fuel company Z Energy is swapping out street names for...
Vanuatu quake: Warnings as bad weather threat looms for Port Vila
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant...
The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, University of New England; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University, and Stephanie Brookes, Monash University
Michael Leunig -- who died in the early...
Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Twenty New Caledonian children who suffered the shock of Port Vila's 7.3 magnitude earthquake have been...
Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’
Asia Pacific Report
“It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of...
NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech...
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly...
MEAA welcomes News MAP funding ‘leg up’ for Australian journalism
Pacific Media Watch
The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability...
Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at...
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas.
The Fiji...
Vanuatu quake: ‘Our shop was flattened like a deck of cards’
By 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver and 1News reporters
A number of Kiwis have been successfully evacuated from Vanuatu after a devastating earthquake shook the...
Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific news editor
There are conflicting reports of the official death toll from this week's massive earthquake in Vanuatu as rescue...
West and media are ‘erasing’ Palestinian history, say critics
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian history is "deliberately ignored" and is being effectively "erased" as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to...
Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and...
Vanuatu quake: Services still down nearly 24 hours after Port Vila...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
World Vision's Vanuatu country director says electricity and water are still affected in the capital Port Vila and strategic...
Vanuatu quake: State of emergency declared, Fiji’s Rabuka offers help
By Monika Singh of Wansolwara
Vanuatu is now in a state of emergency with at least 14 confirmed deaths following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that...
Civil society groups call on NZ to bar new Israeli envoy...
Asia Pacific Report
A broad coalition of civil society organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand have signed an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters...
Vanuatu quake: Death toll rises – 14 dead, hundreds hurt in...
RNZ News
The death toll from Vanuatu's 7.3 earthquake is expected to rise because concrete buildings have collapsed with people inside in the capital Port...
Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off capital...
By Stefan Armbruster and Harry Pearl of BenarNews
A strong 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu today, US geologists said, severely damaging...
Powerful 7.3 magnitude quake strikes Vanuatu – serious damage in Vila
RNZ Pacific
A large 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila , shortly after 3pm NZT today.
The US Geological...
Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – vulnerable nations...
ANALYSIS: By Sione Tekiteki, Auckland University of Technology
The A$140 million aid agreement between Australia and Nauru signed last week is a prime example of...