RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...
NZ news media under fire for ‘bias, propaganda’ in Gaza coverage
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand news media came under fire at today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war...
Talks over NZ hostage pilot release stalled by ‘third party’, say...
Jubi News
Negotiations for the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held captive by the West Papua National Liberation Army...
‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says...
Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing to some readers.
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
As...
PNG leader Marape’s no confidence ‘accountability’ vote set for May
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A vote of no confidence in Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James...
Victims and survivors of nuclear testing honoured in Marshall Islands
World Council of Churches
Today is Remembrance Day -- marking the 70th anniversary of the largest US nuclear test detonation, Castle Bravo, which took place...
Other nations are applying sanctions and going to court over Gaza...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
Despite the carnage, United Nations resolutions and international court rulings, Israel's war in Gaza has the potential to...
Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is being held in Abu...
Fa’anānā Efeso Collins – an ‘extraordinary man’, says widow
RNZ News
The late Green Party MP Fa'anānā Efeso Collins has been remembered by his widow as an "extraordinary man" at a service in South...
NZ govt designates political wing of Hamas a ‘terrorist’ entity
RNZ News
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a "terrorist" entity.
New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as...
Al Jazeera’s Bishara says ICJ critics ‘demolished shameless defences’ of Israel...
Pacific Media Watch
The International Court of Justice (ICC) has held its last day of hearings examining the legality of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian...
John Minto: Why New Zealand should not designate Hamas a terrorist...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The New Zealand government is shortly to announce whether it will designate Hamas a “terrorist” group in response to the October...
NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub...
Pacific Media Watch
Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News.
Staff...
Philippines arrests Chinese fugitive who became Vanuatu citizen
By Evelyn Macairan in Manila
Despite changing his citizenship to the Pacific state of Vanuatu, a Chinese man wanted for various economic crimes was arrested...
Marcos govt offers muted celebration of 1986 People Power revolution
By Dwight de Leon in Manila
There was no statement from Marcos Jr this year, but in a vlog posted on the anniversary of the...
Amnesty International accuses Israel of ‘defying’ ICJ ruling over genocide
Asia Pacific Report
Amnesty International has accused Israel of defying last month's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to prevent genocide by failing to allow...
‘Time for talking is over’ – Turkish plan to break Gaza...
Kia Ora Gaza
The head of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), Bulent Yildirim, has announced that the organisation will head a naval fleet to...
Marape praises security forces in daring kidnap, says lawnessness has ‘destroyed’...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape has commended Papua New Guinea's police, defence force and the local community for their quick...
Kidnapped Australian helicopter pilot, subcontractors set free in PNG
PNG Post-Courier
A kidnapped Australian pilot of a Hevilift helicopter and two Papua New Guinean subcontractors have been released without harm following a rapid deployment...
West Papua advocacy group condemns arrest, ‘humiliation’ of two teenagers
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian-based West Papua advocacy group has condemned the arrest and "humiliation" of two teenagers by Indonesian security forces last week.
The head...