Indonesia to offer ‘amnesty’ for West Papuans contesting Jakarta’s rule
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...
King Charles arrives in Samoa for ‘resilient environment’ CHOGM
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...
Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal...
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...
NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements
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...
Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many
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...
New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’
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...
Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...
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...
Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua
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...
Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster
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...
One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says...
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...
West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific...
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...
Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN
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...
Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t...
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,...
Murdoch to Musk: how global media power has shifted from the...
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...
Discrimination faced by indigenous Papuans ‘isn’t something new’, says disturbing new...
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...
Fiji 2000 coup leader George Speight granted presidential pardon
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...
French police shoot dead two Kanaks in New Caledonian ‘assassinations’
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...
Seven Pacific no votes in ‘historic’ UN General Assembly demand for...
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...
West Papuan fighters who kidnapped Kiwi pilot propose terms of release
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...
Media watchdog condemns Israel’s ‘harassment’ move to strip Al Jazeera journalists...
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,...