The face of West Papuan society is changing but RNZ International found that the core culture of the indigenous people of Indonesia's Papua region...

By Kendall Hutt The future of Tonga’s Democracy Coalition remains uncertain as next year’s election looms, a Nuku'alofa-based educator has concluded in a public seminar...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila The Vanuatu government’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Committee is confident that the submission of some 31 Bills to Parliament...

By Safrin La Batu in Jakarta Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab has called on the Indonesian government to pull from circulation the newly-issued...

Estonia may lie a continent and an ocean away from the two biggest polluters in the world – China and the United States –...

By Tokasa Rainima in Suva Fiji Times publisher Hank Arts’ bail variation application has been dismissed by the Suva High Court. Justice Thushara Rajasinghe told Arts...

From the Vanuatu Daily Post's celebration special edition today: Marc Neil-Jones’ newspaper Vanuatu Daily Post celebrates an historic milestone today. We need to remember how...

By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post Media freedom is everyone’s freedom. We can’t take it for granted. My education in the challenges...

More than 2000 people took to the streets in Auckland at the weekend as marches for women's rights began across New Zealand on Saturday...

Philippine protesters at an anti-Trump rally in Manila at the weekend. Video: Eagle News Philippines Hundreds of Filipinos protested outside the United States embassy in...

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea, but there were no reports of casualties or damage after a potential tsunami did...

Auckland protesters, some chanting "Human rights are women's rights", marching up Queen Street to Myers Park in central Auckland yesterday. Video: Del Abcede/Pacific Media...

By Professor Thomas Clark The grace. The elegance. The deftness of touch. The quick intelligence. The soaring rhetoric. The unlimited aspirations. The hope of a...

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pack into downtown Washington today for a women's march in opposition to newly inaugurated President Donald...

Archival footage from ABC News on Australian SAS training of Indonesian special forces in 2010 republished on the Special Forces News channel on YouTube...

OPINION: By Tess Newton Cain in Port Vila There have been a couple of stories recently in Vanuatu about kava exports and one of the...

By Glenda Willie in Port Vila Vanuatu kava farmers on Espiritu Santo have expressed great fear of losing their production businesses in the wake of...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila In response to last weekend’s reports of complaints about allegedly "tainted" kava, Vanuatu-based exporter Peter Colmar has provided clear...

The Tongan government has announced reassignment of ministerial posts to two of its ministries. Penisimani Fifita has been moved from the Ministry of Internal Affairs...

By Laura Williams Exploring what it’s like to look for love as a 40-something-year-old woman, a grandfather recovering from a stroke, a Pacific grandmother's recollections,...

ANALYSIS: By Steve Sawyer Looking back at 2016, it’s easier to come up with a list of bad things that happened than good: Brexit,...

By Kerrie Armstrong An independent audit has slammed the Australian Department of Immigration's running of the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres, saying department officials...