Tag: Emergency

Jubi News An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 hit Papua's capital city Jayapura on Thursday afternoon, killing four people, injuring at least five and...

RNZ Pacific The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the covid outbreak in the Marshall Islands a Public Health Emergency. A total of 571 new omicron...

RNZ News Pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis says her re-activated emergency MIQ application has been approved, and she will return to New Zealand in March. Deputy Prime...

By Luke Nacei in Suva Waves associated with the continuous volcanic eruption at Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai in Tonga crashed into Tonga’s largest island Tongatapu and forced residents...

Kaniva Tonga News A new tsunami warning is now in force for all of Tonga following this evening’s violent eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai undersea volcano...

COMMENTARY: By Glen Johnson On August 17, a 58-year-old man from Auckland became symptomatic and tested positive for covid-19. It was New Zealand’s first community...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with...

By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby As Papua New Guinea's capital continues to record an increase in covid-19 cases, with seven new positive cases...

Coming ashore ... seven ferry disaster survivors reach Kiribati and tell their stories. Image: TVNZ video clip By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ's Pacific correspondent With 93 people...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's government is moving the entire population of 11,000 people from Ambae to the neighbouring islands of Pentecost, Maewo,...

A RNZAF flyover of Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: NZDF By Bob Makin in Port Vila The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has ordered...