Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence.
Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men...
In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding...
Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter
Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...
Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...
Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank – but Western...
Pacific Media Watch
With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange, Israel's military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands...
Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear...
Asia Pacific Report
In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network
Tongan community leaders and artists in New Zealand have criticised the Treaty Principles Bill while highlighting the ongoing...
Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News
As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...
Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a...
Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right
The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right's most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in...
Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...
RNZ Pacific
Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a motion in the Cook Islands Parliament aimed at ousting his government, the second Pacific Island leader...
Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition
Asia Pacific Report
An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a "dangerous and politicised" definition of antisemitism which...
J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites
A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....
PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic
RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government wants to have everyone on their National Identity (NID) card system by the country's 50th anniversary on 16...
Barred European Union politician brands Israel as ‘a rogue state’
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera.
The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame survives in resounding no-confidence vote
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has survived a vote of no confidence after weeks of political turmoil.
In...
Parihaka’s matriarch, champion of tikanga and peace advocate Maata Wharehoka dies...
OBITUARY: By Heather Devere
Maata Wharehoka (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Kuia. 1950-2025
Maata Wharehoka has been described as the Parihaka Matriarch,...
Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls' first two days in New Caledonia have been marred by...
Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’
PNG Post-Courier
Prime Minister James Marape has issued a strong appeal to all young men and boys in Papua New Guinea -- stop abusing girls,...
