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Former guerrillas dominate Timor-Leste’s presidential election
People in Timor-Leste went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president. Their choice was between eight candidates with former guerrilla fighter Francisco...
French minister Lecornu holds future talks in New Caledonia retreat
By RNZ News
French Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu has held talks with 10 New Caledonian politicians at a retreat near Noumea to promote dialogue between...
Pandora Papers: Mystery names hold bulk of Philippine-linked offshore accounts
By Ralf Rivas in Manila
More than 900 individuals and companies linked to the Philippines have figured in millions of files on offshore accounts leaked...
AWPA protests over Canberra’s ‘lack of concern’ over West Papua crackdown
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Australia West Papua Association has protested over the "lack of any concern" by Canberra over worsening clashes in the Indonesian...
Mediawatch: Signal to noise – is NZ’s AM radio really under threat?
RNZ Mediawatch
Old-fashioned AM radio was an information lifeline for many in Aotearoa New Zealand during last month's Cyclone Gabrielle when other sources wilted without...
Pacific example can help ‘save the world’ on climate change, says McKibben
By Ami Dhabuwala in Suva
The people of the Pacific have been handed a big challenge over the weekend – mobilise for urgent climate change...
Canberra must stop wasting time – and urgently support ABC in the Pacific
Policy failure over the last eight years -- including a massive cut to the ABC’s international funding -- has weakened Australia’s voice in the...
NGO group criticises ‘haste over media policy’ that may hit PNG freedom
PNG Post-Courier
An anti-corruption NGO in Papua New Guinea has criticised the haste with which the government is conducting consultation on a draft National Media...
Indonesian anti-terror law change ‘may override human rights’
By Edo Karensa in Jakarta
International human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Indonesia's House of Representatives to reject a draft...
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Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi, a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawai'ian) initiative for self-determination and self-governance formed in 1987, has sent a 17-member Indigenous delegation...
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‘Just a power grab’ claim over Vanuatu PM’s no-confidence vote boycott
By Koroi Hawkins and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists, with reporting and photography from RNZ correspondent Hilaire Bule in Port Vila
The Vanuatu Prime Minister...
The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...
By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer -- 30' with Guyon Espiner
The former head of Human Rights Watch -- and son of a Holocaust survivor...
Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide in Karida, Papua New Guinea
On Wednesday, some of the bodies of 18 women and children in Papua New Guinea...
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