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...
Angry male student mob targets media over UPNG sexual abuse...
By Charlie Dumavi in Port Moresby
Women students at the University of Papua New Guinea silently suffering from persistent sexual harassment and abuse in the...
Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York –...
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France's nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the...
Fiji’s government goes quiet as covid crisis spirals out of control
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Calls for more action from the Fiji government are growing louder, as authorities appear to be losing their grip...
Vanuatu speaker declares vacant seats of PM, his deputy and 16...
RNZ Pacific
The speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament has declared the seats of the prime minister, the deputy prime minister and 16 other government MPs...
Male students at UPNG attack media for reporting on sexual harassment
By Jemimah Sukbat in Port Moresby
A group of male students attacked the media covering a harassment protest by female students at the University of...
AG raises Suva lawyers’ ‘little confidence’ social media posts
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Social media posts by two outspoken Suva-based lawyers have been raised in Parliament over a critical culture “that has been...
Samoa leadership talks fail to resolve political impasse
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Prime Minister-elect, FAST party leader Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, says negotiations remain at an impasse between her party and the rival Human Rights...
K630m to restart Porgera mine with new deal for PNG landowners
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
It will cost the Papua New Guinea state and Australian operator Barrick Niugini Ltd K630 million (US$180 million) to...
USP staff and students hit back at Sayed-Khaiyum’s ‘illegal’ claim
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific staff and student unions have condemned Fiji Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum's claim that a new USP...
Fiji records 83 covid cases in highest total as Suva hospital...
RNZ Pacific
Fiji recorded 83 cases of covid-19 on yesterday -- its highest daily figure yet, as authorities moved to cordon off the country's largest...
Cook Islands detects first positive covid-19 case – man on holiday
By the Cook Islands News
A Cook Islands man who has been on holiday in Rarotonga since May 21, 2021, has tested positive for covid-19,...
Bryan Bruce: So, it’s Queen’s Birthday weekend … and the paradox...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
So, it’s Queen’s Birthday weekend.
Except… it’s not her birthday.
She was actually born on 21 April 1926.
Moving the reigning monarch’s birthday...
Gallery: ‘Migrant lives matter’ protest slams NZ policies – Palestinian justice...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
New Zealand's largest ever crowd in support of migrant rights gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square at the weekend in triple protests...
West Papua and other critical issues – why is NZ media...
COMMENT: By David Robie in Auckland
International reporting has hardly been a strong feature of New Zealand journalism. No New Zealand print news organisation has...
Remembering Tiananmen in Hong Kong: An increasingly risky act of resistance
By Oiwan Lam in Hong Kong
Hong Kong police on June 4 deployed 7000 officers in Victoria Park and across the city to ensure that...
Three senior Fiji Ministry of Health staff contract covid-19 – 35...
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Three senior members of Fiji's Ministry of Health have tested positive for covid-19, taking Friday's total new...
Samoan Language Week: A reminder of what it means to be...
COMMENT: By Vaimoana Tapalea
In Samoan Language Week, The New Zealand Herald's Vaimoana Tapaleao welcomes the revival of all things fa'asamoa.
Anyone with an ethnic name...
‘Don’t blame us,’ says military chief over Fiji’s covid surge
RNZ Pacific
The head of the Fiji's defence force has rejected claims by opposition MPs in Parliament this week and has called for an apology...
Samoa Observer: For Tuilaepa, the truth hurts
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
Buoyed as he is by court decision, Samoa's caretaker Prime Minister has shown a character flaw weighing...
Fiji’s covid navy cluster still rises as nation records 28 new...
RNZ Pacific
Fijian authorities have confirmed 28 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total number of active cases to 349.
The Ministry of Health said last...
The Fiji Times: Maintaining physical distancing
EDITORIAL: The Fiji Times
As the number of Fiji's covid-19 positive cases continues to rise, there is obvious discomfort and great concern among many Fijians.
This...