Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Police have forced protesters demonstrating at the weekend against the attendance of Myanmar military commander General Min Aung Hlaing at the...

COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...

RNZ Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been described as the go-to barrister for London's rich and famous. Standing by...

RNZ Pacific The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change. Addressing the...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”,...

RNZ News A New Zealand veteran who fought in Korea told of his experience of war and the horror of seeing napalm used for the...

By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago. Rupert Brooke, 26, was...

By Reza Gunadha and Chyntia Sami Bhayangkara in Jayapura Victor Mambor, journalist and editor of the Papua-based Tabloid Jubi, has become the target of a...

Papuan protesters outside the United Nations headquarters yesterday after John Anari was gagged again from making a full statement at the UN Permanent Forum...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape has defended the adjournment of Parliament for four months, saying this is...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy, this week invested social justice advocate and former Green Party MP Keith Locke as a Member...

ANALYSIS: By Clare Corbould, Deakin University The unprecedented conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin in the United States for the murder and manslaughter of George...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A West Papuan envoy who was gagged while addressing the United Nations Permanent  Forum on Indigenous Issues two years ago is...

By Lagi Keresoma in Apia Samoa could end going back to the polls should a tie of 26/26 between the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP)...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's parliament has adjourned for almost four months, dashing an attempt to oust Prime Minister James Marape. The adjournment allows Marape to...

The Pacific Newsroom Fiji’s Health Secretary Dr James Fong strongly attacked his country’s media for “reckless reporting” today, saying it could spark panic. He gave no...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent New Zealand is scrapping district health boards and creating a new Māori health agency in a radical "fairer...

Reporters Without Borders The Asia-Pacific region’s authoritarian regimes have used the covid-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the “dictatorial...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting...

ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Nguyen Doan, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington What have...

ANALYSIS: By Blair Williams, Australian National University It feels like every day brings more harrowing claims of harassment, bullying and abuse of women in Australia's...