Fiji’s Kiwi prosecutor’s suspension ‘not a matter for’ Foreign Minister Peters
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has "hung . . . out to dry" Fiji's suspended New Zealand Director of...
PNG villagers attack priest, nurses and doctors while on Chimbu foot...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province.
Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD),...
Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports...
By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva
Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to...
Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Polynesia's veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...
Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’,...
Asia Pacific Report
A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian...
PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair
By Pita Ligaiula in Tokyo
The Pacific Islands Forum hopes to send a high-level delegation to Kanaky New Caledonia to investigate the current political crisis...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...
PSNA demands immediate NZ action over Palestine court ruling
Asia Pacific Report
The decision of the International Court of Justice that Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal demands immediate action from the New...
‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for...
RNZ Pacific
The University of the South Pacific staff associations are up in arms about the sacking of a union leader and academic by the...
NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...
RNZ Pacific
The Pacific Island Forum could serve as a "constructive force" to find a "path forward" in Kanaky New Caledonia, New Zealand Foreign Affairs...
PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues
PANG Media
The PANG media team at this month's Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David...
Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities
By Margot Staunton, RNZ senior journalist and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
A Kanak political commentator in Aotearoa New Zealand says calls to separate New...
Pacific journalists’ resilience shines through at historic conference
By Justin Latif in Suva
Despite the many challenges faced by Pacific journalists in recent years, the recent Pacific International Media Conference highlighted the incredible...
PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste...
By Matthew Vari in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea will face a grim reality of a ban on its shipping of oil and hydrocarbons in...
Pacific media academics slam global research journal model, defend regional niche...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media academics have criticised the economics of global research journal publication models and defended independent publications such as Pacific Journalism Review...
Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here’s what makes Evan...
ANALYSIS: By Sara Oscar, University of Technology Sydney
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was captured by several photographers who...
Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development
RNZ Pacific
Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across...
‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment...
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager
Delegates at a Pacific media conference in Fiji two weeks ago heard harrowing stories of female reporters facing threats...
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share...
Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was...
Fiji, anchor of Indonesian diplomacy in the Pacific – a view...
Indonesia's commitment to the Pacific continues to be strengthened. One of the strategies is through a commitment to resolving human rights cases in Papua,...
‘We slept in the open,’ say PNG evicted widows who bought...
By Kelvin Joe and Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby
Two widows and their children were among other Papua New Guinean squatters who had to dismantle...
New riot vehicle shipment arrives for police, firemen in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
More armoured vehicles and firetrucks have been delivered for Kanaky New Caledonia's security forces, including police...