New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's domestic carrier Air Calédonie is set to launch a biweekly international connection to neighbouring...
Student pressure forces Victoria University Foundation to divest from Israeli bonds
Student Justice for Palestine Pōneke
After almost a year of consistent pressure from the student body, the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) Foundation has announced...
Protesters mobilise to greet Australia’s ‘Land Forces’ merchants of death
COMMENTARY: By Binoy Kampmark in Melbourne
Between tomorrow and Friday, the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) will host a weapons bazaar that ought to...
New Caledonia crisis: Another church burns, spate of attacks continues
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Another church has been set alight in New Caledonia, confirming a trend of arson which...
US not probing killing of its citizen Aysenur Eygi in West...
Asia Pacific Report
Officials in the United States have said that Washington still does not “know with full certainty what transpired” when a US citizen...
Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defence expo in Australia
By Efe Özkan
Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday.
Protesters gathered yesterday in...
Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page
COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández
In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip -- a 51-day affair that...
‘Numerous questions’, but Fiji govt sticks with new anti-corruption chief
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Fiji government is backing the appointment of the country's new anti-corruption chief who was under investigation by the...
Pope Francis calls for end to tribal ‘spiral of violence’ in...
Inside PNG
In his address to Papua New Guinea, the Sovereign Head of the Vatican and the Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, called...
Mediawatch: Kiingi Tuheitia’s tangihanga – epic broadcast marks new epoch for...
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
"Anticipation is growing. The warriors are ready. They're preparing themselves. The paddlers are already on their...
Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on...
OPEN LETTER: Our Action Station
Dear TVNZ,
We are deeply concerned with the misleading nature of the journalism presented in your recent coverage of the escalating...
Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice
By Matilda Yates, Queensland University of Technology
“From a white perspective it is journalism but for us, it is actually storytelling,” says Fiji student...
Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum
COMMENTARY: By Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva
Regional leaders will gather later this month in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga...
John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the...
Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence...
Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers
By Brooklyn Self, Queensland University of Technology
Gendered online violence is silencing women journalists in Fiji, says Pacific media scholar Dr Shailendra Singh.
The harmful trend...
From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate...
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation.
By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders
Many in the international...
Kiribati elections 2024: Polls open but ‘hype isn’t like other countries’
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead
The atmosphere in Kiribati is "very calm" and "the hype is not as it is in other countries",...
Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will...
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences.
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook...
Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
The I-Kiribati people will go to the polls for the first round of voting today.
Ballots are expected to...
Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on...
Pacific Media Watch
A global media watchdog has expressed concern for the safety of an Al Jazeera reporter after false claims by the Israeli military.
The...