Tag: Death
Cyclone Gabrielle: Severity of damage ‘not seen in a generation’, says...
RNZ News
At least 2500 people have been displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle this week, says Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty.
About 1000 of those are in...
Papuans join Vanuatu in mourning death of ‘freedom’ Pastor Allen Nafuki
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans have joined the people of Vanuatu in mourning the loss of independence and human rights campaigner Pastor Allen Nafuki...
Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters...
ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Nguyen Doan, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
What have...
Loimata, The Sweetest Tears carries off grand prize at 2021 FIFO
Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...
No new NZ covid cases for six days – but one...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported no new cases of covid-19 coronavirus today, but the death toll has risen to 22 to include a...
Woman living in Northern Ireland becomes Timor’s first covid-19 fatality
By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili
Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first...
Two new coronavirus cases in New Zealand – one further death
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported two new cases of covid-19 in the coronavirus pandemic in the past 24 hours and one further death,...
West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent
A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...
Media associates pay tribute to ‘Akilisi Pohiva
By Michael Andrew
Pacific media associates have paid tribute to the late Tongan Prime Minster 'Akilisi Pohiva, who died in New Zealand earlier this week.
An...
RSF plea to Indonesia to investigate reporter’s death in detention
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an independent inquiry into the death in detention of Muhammad Yusuf, a reporter who...
KontraS demands Indonesian police investigate death of terror suspect
By Riani Sanusi Putri in Jakarta
Indonesia's Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) has demanded police investigate the cause of death of...
Debut novel offers rare glimpse into grief amid life in West...
Ahead of the launch of her debut novel The Earth Cries Out, author Bonnie Etherington talks with Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Kendall Hutt...