Tuesday, October 6, 2026

ASIA PACIFIC REPORTS

CLIMATE CHANGE

Students from the Mount St Mary Primary School at the Ecumenical and Interfaith
Civil Society

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RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji's prime minister has called on global leaders coming to the country to see and listen to the people on the climate...
Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa
American Samoa

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By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific An environmental group in American Samoa is taking legal action against the United States government over its plans for...
A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

Vanuatu's MV Matui tragedy on September 11

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

MULTIMEDIA

HUMAN RIGHTS

Palestinian journalists work with cameras, laptops and limited equipment from makeshift press areas
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces last week published a list...
The Greens "Zionism is racism" motion was passed by an overwhelming majority
Asia Report

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By Anam Alam Backers of the UK Green Party's landmark "Zionism is racism" motion celebrated the proposal's passing into policy on Sunday, with supporters telling...
Pro-France New Caledonian politician Nicolas Metzdorf, a deputy in the French National Assembly

The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

INSTITUTIONS

Fiji Justice Minister Siromi Turaga
Culture

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COMMENTARY: By Jale Moala Words matter in politics. They matter even more when a country is debating the document that will determine how it is...
Palestinian journalists work with cameras, laptops and limited equipment from makeshift press areas
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces last week published a list...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left) invited New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon

The Greens "Zionism is racism" motion was passed by an overwhelming majority

Pro-France New Caledonian politician Nicolas Metzdorf, a deputy in the French National Assembly

The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

MEDIA

Palestinian journalists work with cameras, laptops and limited equipment from makeshift press areas
Analysis

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COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces last week published a list...
The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
Democracy

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RNZ Pacific reporters Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'aiuli) Leuatea Schmidt has apologised for a historical video in which he used the term "Heil Hitler". "I have...
The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi

SPORTS

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Analysis

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ANALYSIS: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific On the second day of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting in Palau, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun
Culture

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By Talaia Mika of RNZ Pacific There will be "no more Manu Samoa" if the government does not accept a proposed World Rugby review of...
Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sailele Mallielegaoi

The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga all lost their rugby international games at the weekend

Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli
Development

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By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced more financial assistance for New Caledonia to assist the financially-embattled French Pacific...
New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli
Business

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By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's President Milakulo Tukumuli on Monday outlined the urgent issues facing the French Pacific territory. In a special address...
The world spent 40 years building an oil reserves shock absorber for exactly this war

An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia

Papua New Guinea . . . on the "grey list"

East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts

CLIMATE AND COVID


CORONAVIRUS

BEARING WITNESS

APJS NEWSFILE


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GLOBAL REPORTAGE

ARTS & PERFORMANCE

Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya

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By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji's election about a...
A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests

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Asia Pacific Report A South Auckland-based cultural studio founded by Fijian artist-curator Vasemaca (FKA Ema) Tavola has hit back at a spate of pro-Israeli propaganda...
PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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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...
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.

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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...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump
Civil Society

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By Ellen O'Dwyer of RNZ and RNZ Digital reporters Police are considering charges against Greenpeace protesters who occupied a state-owned ship in protest at seabed...
Cook Islands caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown and US Ambassador Jared Novelly exchange gifts
Cook Islands

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By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific A 26-day deep sea expedition in the Cook Islands by a United States scientific agency has uncovered new information...
Beyond the Bubble

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .

An Iran-China freight train

ISA's Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho

LATEST REVIEWS

A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler
Culture

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REVIEW: By David Robie The seeds of resistance and later community empowerment began in Tāmaki Makaurau in a humble but lively bookshop in a rundown...
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

American advocacy journalist and film maker Abby Martin in conversation with Auckland journalist Simon Wilson

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