Monday, March 9, 2026

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CLIMATE CHANGE

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand
Analysis

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ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes and Rubayat Chowdhury There is no doubt that the war Israel and the United States have launched against Iran will have...
Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating "ecocide" happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend...
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels

The "Blood on your hands" protest at the US Consulate

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Asia Report

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REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Badi (Pig Feast):...
Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab
Analysis

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COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all...
Protesters wave flags and banners reading “Stop Bombing Iran” and “Stop Bombing the Middle East” as they gather at Victoria Tower Gardens in London

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

INSTITUTIONS

A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises
Global

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By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The United States military has begun the formal environmental review process for the continuation...
Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Asia Report

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REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Badi (Pig Feast):...
Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab

Protesters wave flags and banners reading “Stop Bombing Iran” and “Stop Bombing the Middle East” as they gather at Victoria Tower Gardens in London

A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

MEDIA

“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF
Analysis

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Pacific Media Watch Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while...
Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating "ecocide" happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend...
The PNG Correctional Service headquarters where the alleged assault took place

Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed

Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut

SPORTS

New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
Cook Islands

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By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage. Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted...
Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters
Democracy

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By Christine Rovoi of PMN News The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy. Charters' arrest by...
Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

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

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea is under a close watch for money laundering, running a risk of being abandoned by global...
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts
Democracy

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By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's 2026 National Budget has drawn immediate opposition criticism from East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, who...
NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine

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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...
Pacific Prana

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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

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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...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Gaza and Rocket Lab protesters on Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's Queens Wharf
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake in US space militarisation today and speakers branded Rocket Lab as an alleged...
Taiātea Symposium at Waitangi 2026
Cook Islands

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By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of...
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

LATEST REVIEWS

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast
Asia Report

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REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Badi (Pig Feast):...
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

New Zealand author David Robie

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