Pacific leaders urged to look at Kiribati president’s concerns for unity
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva
Pacific leaders really need to look seriously at the concerns raised by the President Taneti Maamau of Kiribati, resulting in...
How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom
ANALYSIS: The restrictions on Pacific news media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a...
Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji police have evicted two Chinese defence attaches from a Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva while US Vice-President Kamala Harris...
US tells Pacific leaders it will ‘deepen commitment’ to the region
RNZ Pacific
United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has assured Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in the Fiji capital Suva that Washington will "significantly deepen" its...
Indonesia sues PNG for K105m over storage of ‘illegal’ oil shipments
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
The Indonesian government has filed a K105.6 million (US$30 million) writ against Papua New Guinea, naming two senior officials...
Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue,...
RNZ News
Addressing media on developments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says making sure the region is investing now...
Pacific Islands Forum ‘on course’ as China issue casts shadow
By Wata Shaw in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama opened the 51st Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting yesterday by saying it was setting the...
Empty seats mark first Pacific Islands Forum summit meeting
RNZ Pacific
Seats were glaringly empty at the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva this morning as Pacific leaders sat down to the first formal...
More Pacific Islands Forum summit leaders pull out as crisis grows
RNZ Pacific
The number of leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Suva, Fiji, has dropped further, with both the president of the Marshall...
Marape first politician re-elected in PNG ballot with landslide win
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Caretaker prime minister James Marape has retained his Tari-Pori seat as the first politician to be...
Kiribati exit from Pacific forum ‘out of order’, says founding president
RNZ Pacific
Kiribati's sudden withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum without wider political discussion by the government is out of order, the country's opposition leader...
Kiribati withdrawal from Pacific Islands Forum a major blow
By the RNZ Pacific editorial team in Suva
The 51st Pacific Forum Leaders (PIF) Meeting starting today has been dealt a major blow after the...
Australian Labor isn’t alone. Parties of the Left are making a...
ANALYSIS: By Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
One aspect of May’s federal election in Australia has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the...
Indonesian official admits new Papua provinces are to ‘counter OPM, exploit...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papua People's Council (MRP) says that a Coordinating Ministry for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs (Kemenko Polhukam) deputy has told...
Vanuatu offers warm welcome to Papuan independence campaigner
RNZ Pacific
The president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua, Benny Wenda, has arrived to a warm welcome in Port Vila from London...
PNG’s capital residents shocked with second deferral of polling day
PNG Post-Courier
Chaos. That is the one word for Papua New Guinea's 2022 national general election.
Unfortunately, the election has descended to that level, and polling...
Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels...
Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Radio broadcaster Federico "Ding" Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan...
Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as...
By Marjorie Finkeo and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Six suspects, including a woman, have been charged in connection with more than K1 million in...
Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers
PNG Post-Courier
Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were...
Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta
RNZ Pacific
Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio will attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta's stead as she recovers from covid-19.
In...
PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed reports his eldest son is one of two men arrested in relation to a...