Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office, The Washington Post adopted the first slogan in its...
Pacific leaders’ troika begins New Caledonia fact-finding mission
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders' troika, along with the Fiji's prime minister, arrived in Kanaky...
Binoy Kampmark: Bitter harvests – the killing of Yahya Sinwar and...
ANALYSIS: By Binoy Kampmark
It prompted an outbreak of grim cheer in Israel. In Washington, there were similar pulsations of congratulation.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was...
Kanak pastor advocates for ‘hope and ‘humanity’ as Pacific leaders visit...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
A Kanak pastor from the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia, attending a Pacific solidarity forum in Aotearoa,...
Remote Mangcayo school among areas hit by Typhoon Kristine floods
Asia Pacific Report
A remote Filipino school in Bicol province assisted by a small New Zealand voluntary NGO has been seriously damaged by floodwaters in...
‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe has expressed doubt about Australia's reliability in addressing the climate...
UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding...
By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
France has been criticised for the “alarming” death toll in New Caledonia during recent protests and its “cold shower” approach...
RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring...
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei
It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) -- celebration...
PNG bus shooting: ‘This sort of revenge killing is unheard of’
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea police say 10 people have been tragically killed after a series of violent "revenge killings" along...
PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights...
Pacific Media Watch
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has "cleared the air" with the Fijian diaspora in Samoa over Fiji’s vote against the United Nations resolution...
Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
In the lead up to the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto last Sunday, Indonesia established five "Vulnerable Area Buffer Infantry Battalions"...
Rabuka’s message to free Kanaky movement: ‘Don’t slap the hand that...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is cautioning New Caledonia's local government to "be reasonable" in its requests from...
‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist in Apia
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says he will take a back seat in the upcoming Pacific leaders'...
NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's opposition Labour Party has backed Christchurch City Council and called for other cities to block business with firms involved in...
UN rapporteur condemns Israeli ‘death sentence’ claim trying to silence last...
Pacific Media Watch
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel’s declaration that six...
Indonesia to offer ‘amnesty’ for West Papuans contesting Jakarta’s rule
The National, PNG
Indonesia will offer amnesty to West Papuans who have contested Jakarta's sovereignty over the Melanesian region resulting in conflicts and clashes with...
King Charles arrives in Samoa for ‘resilient environment’ CHOGM
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist in Apia
King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla have landed in Apia, Samoa.
The monarch has been greeted...
Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal...
Asia Pacific Report
France's Supreme Court has overturned a judgment imprisoning pretrial in mainland France Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Tein, who is widely regarded as...
NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements
Asia Pacific Report
Christchurch, New Zealand's third-largest city, today became the first local government in the country to sanction Israel by voting to halt business...
Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A deadly ambush unfolded in Enga province between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. last night, leaving multiple people dead...
New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’
INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Last week, New Caledonia was visited by France's new Overseas Minister, François Buffet, offering a more conciliatory...
Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...
By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia
The Ocean Declaration that will be agreed upon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week will...