High profile lawyer faces fresh fraud, money laundering charges in PNG
RNZ Pacific
A prominent Australian lawyer, Greg Sheppard, has been arrested by Papua New Guinean police and is facing a range of fraud charges.
Sheppard, a...
Nine reasons why Jakarta has branded Papuan armed rebels as ‘terrorists’
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) believes that the Indonesian government has nine motives behind the branding of...
Fiji disaster unfolds as nation breaks daily covid record with 94...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent
A disaster is unfolding in Fiji as covid-19 cases continue to escalate - 94 cases in the last...
Marape tells PNG police they should be ‘doing their job’ over...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guineans who continue to commit crimes under the pretext of "sorcery" must...
They are (using) us: ‘How is it okay for others to...
COMMENT: By Saziah Bashir
It was announced yesterday that Australian actress Rose Byrne will star as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in an upcoming...
51 new covid cases confirmed in Fiji with fast-growing Nadi cluster
RNZ Pacific
Fifty-one cases of covid-19 have been confirmed in Fiji tonight, with 35 of them from the fastest-growing cluster at Nadi.
This takes the total...
Former USP academic and author of Fiji coup books Robbie Robertson...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Retired politics professor and historian Robert "Robbie" Robertson, 69, co-author of the book Shattered Coups about the 1987 coups led by...
‘It gives us nightmares,’ says PNG police officer dealing with domestic...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
“We take the pain and problems of victims home and it gives us nightmares many times.”
A police woman serving at the...
Five police officers among 39 new covid cases in Fiji as...
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Five police officers are among 39 new cases of covid-19 in Fiji while the government announced late...
Actress Rose Byrne to play Jacinda Ardern in mosque attacks film
RNZ News
Australian actress Rose Byrne is set to play NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a film about the week following the 15 March...
Media Council condemns ‘mob rule’ to intimidate female students, media at...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has condemned an attack by male students at the University of Papua New Guinea...
Protect women accused of ‘sorcery’ and punish attackers, watchdog tells PNG
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papua New Guinean government should protect women accused of practicing “sorcery” from violence and hold the attackers to account, says...
Wenda accuses Jakarta’s military of ‘massacre’ after killing of 3 Papuans
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has accused Indonesian "colonial forces" of a new massacre with the killing of three...
Fiji frontline healthcare workers can’t stay home, says Dr Sahukhan
By Koroi Tadulala, FBC News multimedia journalist
Fiji's Ministry of Health says it is aware of concerns about the high number of frontline healthcare workers...
NZ nurses and officials talk what next on negotiations after national...
RNZ News
New Zealand's nurses and midwives' union and district health boards (DHBs) will discuss where to from here after failed pay negotiations led to...
Indonesian activists protest against plan to dump Fukushima nuclear waste in...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Activists from the Fukushima Anti-Nuclear Indonesia (IANFU) movement in Indonesia have held an action commemorating International Ocean Day demanding that the...
Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’,...
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter
Critics have hammered the Climate Change Commission's agriculture goals in New Zealand, saying it has missed the mark on...
Nauru president defends Samoa contract decision for USP chief
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has rejected a Fiji minister's claim that the decision of the University of the South Pacific to...
Vanuatu judge stays Speaker’s vacation of PM plus 18 parliamentary seats
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu Supreme Court judge Justice Oliver Saksak has granted a stay on the vacation of 19 seats in the country's Parliament.
On Tuesday, the...
Samoa’s caretaker PM Tuila’epa sued for contempt of court
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
In the latest twist in Samoa’s political rollercoaster, the FAST party has accused the rival HRPP leader of contempt of court,...
Fiji reports record 94 cases, state sending positive patients home
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
A new daily record of covid-19 cases has been announced in Fiji as 94 new cases in...
Leading NZ newspaper warns nation against complacency over covid
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper has warned the country against complacency over the covid-19 pandemic and to look to Fiji for...