ASIA PACIFIC REPORTS

CLIMATE CHANGE

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer Marshall Islands defence provisions could "fairly easily" be considered to run against...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed over...

HUMAN RIGHTS

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A series of violent incidents and confrontations over the weekend in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa and...

Asia Pacific Report Hamas has accused Israel of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail” over its decision to halt the electricity supply to war-ravaged Palestinian enclave of...

INSTITUTIONS

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter The Aotearoa New Zealand government is being accused of sacrificing peoples' lives for ideology by delaying bowel cancer screening...

Asia Pacific Report Hamas has accused Israel of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail” over its decision to halt the electricity supply to war-ravaged Palestinian enclave of...

MEDIA

Pacific Media Watch Seven weeks into the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has openly resumed its war crimes in Gaza -- blocking humanitarian aid -- with...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis Little more than a month into the new US presidency, The Washington Post’s owner dimmed the light on a motto that...

SPORTS

After lengthy, torrid and emotional debate a critical decision for the future of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau is being made in March. One party will...

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over...

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Avarua, Rarotonga China has confirmed details of its meeting with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter Kiribati President Taneti Maamau was unable to meet New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters because he had "a...



ARTS & PERFORMANCE

John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
Pacific Prana

Asia Pacific Report An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

RNZ Pacific The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...
Moemoeana Miss Pacific_Islands at FestPAC 2024

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalist in Hawai'i "One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific" was Samoa's powerful statement during the parade of nations...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID. It’s “the removal of a huge and...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer The chair of a World Health Organisation (WHO) advisory group is urging world leaders to denounce misinformation around...

LATEST REVIEWS

REVIEW: By David Robie Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy...