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By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand's "intransigence" over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim...

Pacific Media Centre PNG Defence Force soldiers are undergoing mass testing for covid-19 while there is controlled access into Murray Barracks to reduce further possible...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says while Australia and New Zealand work out their Trans-Tasman bubble, Fiji’s equal greater success against the...

Pacific Media Watch The Fiji authorities must respect the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly for university staff and students and immediately cease...

ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their "want...

COMMENT: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor Public confidence in New Zealand's border controls has been shattered. The obvious anger of the prime minister when...

Professor Sir David Skegg says New Zealand is endangering all the covid-19 gains made if new cases are allowed in at the borders such...

By RNZ Pacific A Paris-based lawyer acting for French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has taken his client's treatment in the case in Tahiti to...

By Shaun Hendy; Alex James of University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Michael Plank of University of Canterbury; Nicholas...

By RNZ News Two new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in...

Pacific Media Watch Fiji police today questioned two University of the South Pacific staff over the "solidarity" rallies for the vice-chancellor last week at the...

COMMENTARY: By Devendran Kumaran Universities of today are a key part or component for modern economies’ socioeconomic prosperity. For centuries, higher learning institutions have been...

By Christine Rovoi of RNZ Pacific A former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea's University of Technology says politics has no place in university governance. Professor Albert...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie What an irony. The 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific that prides itself on its pan-Pacific culture has...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today. Auckland's Aotea...

Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large. A...

By Michael Field in Islands Business Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...

By RNZ News "Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1. The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...

By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...