Biden cuts out Australia and Papua New Guinea on Pacific visit
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
US President Joe Biden will cut out his historic trip to Papua New Guinea -- and also to Australia...
RNZ announces presenters for Midday Report and Pacific Waves
RNZ Pacific
RNZ has announced Charlotte Cook as the new presenter of Midday Report -- Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga on RNZ National and Susana...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending...
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
US planned security pact with PNG raises concerns for Pacific
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The United States is poised to sign a security pact with Papua New Guinea which would give US armed...
‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 116 global media...
Pacific Media Watch
More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing...
PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...
Girmit Day – Shaping Fiji through hard work, blood, sweat and...
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley
Sunday -- May 14 -- was an important date for Fiji.
It is recorded in history as a...
7000 protesters demand funding for Catholic schools in New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
Thousands of people have marched in Noumea protesting in support of New Caledonia's Catholic schools, which are struggling to keep operating.
An estimated 7000...
Human rights arguments have lost credibility over double standards
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...
Nakba Day – 75 years of Palestinian statelessness, but also persistence
NAKBA DAY ADDRESS: By Rand Hazou
Although Israelis celebrate 1948 as the birth of the Jewish nation, for Palestinians this date is referred to as...
Elitist, insensitive, blatant abuse of taxpayer money – PNG’s Coronation trip...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
It was a tumultuous week in Papua New Guinea after a 30 member delegation returned from...
Historic Girmit Day apology accepted as Fiji enters new era of...
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva
History unfolded live at the Vodafone Arena at Laucala Bay in Suva yesterday when the Methodist Church of Fiji and...
Open letter plea for NZ to back West Papua peaceful hostage...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand advocacy group has appealed to the government to heed the call of West Papuan church leaders for Indonesia to...
Brotherson ushers in bold new era of Tavini governance for Mā’ohi...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva
Mā’ohi Nui and the Pacific region has witnessed a historical moment at the Territorial Assembly when Oscar Temaru, leader of...
RSF condemns Israel’s ‘scandalous impunity’ over killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Reporters Without Borders
One year after Al Jazeera’s well known Palestine correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank on...
PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row
PNG's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside. Video: ABC News
ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa, Prianka Srinivasan and Belinda Kora
Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister...
‘We’re not primitives’ says UPNG student protest over foreign minister’s ‘disrespect’
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) marched to Parliament House in in the capital Port...
Fiji Rugby loses seat on World Council but will still be...
By Filipe Marayawa in Suva
The Fiji Rugby Union is expected to lose its seat on the World Rugby Council.
This means FRU loses its voting...
Resign call to PNG’s foreign minister over his ‘primitive animals’ slur
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko to resign after calling critics of his...
‘My daughter didn’t misuse public funds’ says PNG’s under fire minister
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A defiant Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko says he will not resign over the furore surrounding his daughter Savannah’s...
‘This industry will trash our moana’ warning but bid to ban...
By Karoline Tuckey, RNZ News journalist
A call for the first reading of a member's bill banning seabed mining altogether was voted down at Parliament...
Amnesty calls on Jakarta to free West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo
RNZ Pacific
Amnesty International is calling on Indonesia to release West Papua National Committee (KNPB) international spokesperson Victor Yeimo.
Yeimo was sentenced on Friday to eight...