RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand's coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he...

COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It's not as if we haven't done so before. When NZ authorities busted a...

NEWSMAKERS: By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit...

REVIEW: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara With only four more seats in the 50-member Parliament yet to be officially declared, there is no...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition...

By Salwa Amor in Istanbul Palestine solidarity activists are preparing a flotilla to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, vowing to break Israel's blockade...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara More than 60 percent of the national results of the Solomon Islands election are now in. So far,...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute's silence to mark the "blood debt" owed to...

Pacific Media Watch Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC's Saturday Extra programme. Five women...

ANALYSIS: By Marco de Jong, Auckland University of Technology and Robert G. Patman, University of Otago When former prime minister Helen Clark spoke out against...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara Solomon Islands' incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has been re-elected in the East Choiseul constituency. It is the...

Asia Pacific Report Hours ago, the news media reported that Israel has attacked Iran. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition publicly declared that it is reminding the...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French-proposed "pact" to salvage New Caledonia's beleaguered nickel industry is still in limbo as the...

Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you.  The former New Zealand Prime Minister -- the safest pair of hands this country has...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara After a relatively well organised and peaceful day of voting in Solomon Islands yesterday, the electoral commission...

REVIEW: By 'Alopi Latukefu I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect. I have a history with West Papua (here referring...