The National, PNG Indonesia will offer amnesty to West Papuans who have contested Jakarta's sovereignty over the Melanesian region resulting in conflicts and clashes with...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist in Apia King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla have landed in Apia, Samoa. The monarch has been greeted...

Asia Pacific Report France's Supreme Court has overturned a judgment imprisoning pretrial in mainland France Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Tein, who is widely regarded as...

Asia Pacific Report Christchurch, New Zealand's third-largest city, today became the first local government in the country to sanction Israel by voting to halt business...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A deadly ambush unfolded in Enga province between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. last night, leaving multiple people dead...

INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Last week, New Caledonia was visited by France's new Overseas Minister, François Buffet, offering a more conciliatory...

By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia The Ocean Declaration that will be agreed upon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week will...

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura With Prabowo Subianto, a controversial former general installed as Indonesia’s new president, residents in the disputed Papua region were responding...

By Harry Pearl of BenarNews An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper...

Pacific Media Watch This week marked the grim one-year anniversary of the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the beginning of the Israeli...

Pacific Media Watch ABC’s The Pacific has gained rare access into West Papua, a region ruled by Indonesia that has been plagued by military violence...

By Stefan Armbruster 0f BenarNews French Polynesia’s president and civil society leaders have called on the United Nations to bring France to the negotiating table...

By John Minto Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday -- this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand's major news website,...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne Until recently, Elon Musk was just a wildly successful electric car tycoon...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Racism, torture and arbitrary arrests are some examples of discrimination indigenous Papuans have dealt with over the last 60...

RNZ Pacific The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens, have been granted...

By Stefan Armbruster and Harry Pearl of BenarNews French police have shot and killed two men in New Caledonia, stoking tensions with pro-independence groups days...

Asia Pacific Report The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding that the Israeli government end its occupation of Palestinian territories within 12...

RNZ Pacific Pro-independence fighters in the Indonesian-ruled West Papua region have proposed the terms of release for the New Zealand pilot taken hostage almost 18...

Pacific Media Watch The International Press Institute (IPI) has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s recent decision to revoke the press passes of Al Jazeera journalists,...