Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing...
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff
“What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s...
How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza...
By Muhammad Shehada
Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own...
French politicians in New Caledonia to stir the political melting pot
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French national politicians have been in New Caledonia as the territory's future remains undecided.
Leaders from both...
Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken...
Samoa parliament to be dissolved in June, election date to come
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Its official. Samoa's Parliament will be dissolved next week and the country will have an early return to the...
Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell
When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put...
Israel bombs Gaza journalist’s home, kills 8 – shoots 3 in...
Asia Pacific Report
Eight people were reported killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombed the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid in the as-Saftawi...
Papua New Guinea seeks ‘fast track’ advice on resurrecting shortwave radio
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Papua New Guinea's state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the government's goal of 100 percent...
Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections
RNZ Pacific
Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’
RNZ Pacific
A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea.
Watchdog groups Act...
PSNA condemns NZ’s ‘indifference to mass murder’ as Israel blocks aid...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand humanitarian aid for Gaza worth up to $29 million is being blocked by Israel on the border of the besieged...
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific
By Stanley Simpson in Suva
I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with...
Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the...
Fiji can’t compete with Australia and NZ on teacher salaries, says...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor
Fiji cannot compete with Australia and New Zealand to retain its teachers, the man in charge of the...
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies
RNZ Pacific
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died.
Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news...
Fiji lawyer Nazhat Khan takes up acting top prosecution role at...
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji lawyer Nazhat Shameem Khan has been elevated to the top prosecutorial position at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in...
Asia Pacific Report editor honoured for contribution to Pacific journalism
Pacific Media Watch
Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie was honoured with Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) at the weekend by...
While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for...
Samoan-Kiwi filmmaker Tuki Laumea checks in with indigenous communities in 10 Pacific nations for a new Al Jazeera documentary series, reports RNZ Saturday Morning.
RNZ...
Pacific dengue cases surge but don’t cancel your holiday yet, says...
RNZ Pacific
A public health expert is urging anyone travelling to places in the Pacific with a current dengue fever outbreak to be vigilant and...
‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’
Asia Pacific Report
Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist's handiwork in Auckland's Takutai Square today to condemn Israel's starvation as...
Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one...
Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism
Pacific Media Watch
A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa's most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism...