Tag: Border protection
Snipers, secret service, special forces fly into PNG for superpower visit
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s airspace will be closed for four hours with tight security for when US President Joe Biden...
Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News
Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can...
Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February
RNZ News
New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...
Solomon Islands imposes 60 hour Honiara lockdown over covid outbreak
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
The Solomon islands government endorsed a 60 hour lockdown in the capital Honiara last night after an urgent special national...
Lives ‘more important than livelihoods’ over borders, says Fiji MP
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Opposition whip Lynda Tabuya says Fiji should have taken its cue from Australia and delayed the opening of its borders...
Why we must not allow covid to become endemic in New...
ANALYSIS: By John Donne Potter, Massey University; Graham Le Gros, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Rod Jackson, University of Auckland
As...
Just one delta covid-19 case could prompt NZ lockdown, says expert
By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter
A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local...
Indonesia pressures PNG over militant video by West Papuan supporters
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Indonesia is pressuring Papua New Guinea over an illegal group East Sepik claiming to form an army unit to...
French Polynesia closing borders to tourists from Wednesday
By RNZ Pacific
Tourism is set to suffer a sharp decline in French Polynesia as the territory is about to close the border on Wednesday...
‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the...