Tag: Pacific languages

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific youth and first time voters in Aotearoa New Zealand feel forgotten and ill equipped ahead of the election. Pasifika...

By Finau Fonua and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalists It was an evening of celebration in Manukau, the heart of South Auckland, as Pasifika musicians...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist A ni-Vanuatu and Melanesian advocate in New Zealand says the country's Pacific ministry has overlooked Melanesian communities in its...

By Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific Concerns are being raised about the future survival of the iTaukei (Fijian) language as a threat of extinction looms...

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e lea faka-Tonga, or Tongan Language Week, is under way with schools and community groups organising...

By Rod Dixon in the Cook Islands News Marjorie and Ron Crocombe lived up to exacting standards in their personal and professional lives and their...

Pacific Media Network News The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...

By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific journalist "Pacific Studies" has been included in a raft of new proposed NCEA achievement standard subjects in New Zealand, now...

COMMENT: By Vaimoana Tapalea In Samoan Language Week, The New Zealand Herald's Vaimoana Tapaleao welcomes the revival of all things fa'asamoa. Anyone with an ethnic name...

By Sri Krishnamurthi “No matter how we come to be in Fiji, or how long we have been here ...we all part of the...

By AUT Pacific It is Fijian Language Week in Aotearoa New Zealand, and to celebrate, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has launched the Fiji episode...

The Tongan video in the AUT Pacific language series. By AUT News The Tonga episode in Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific language video series – Adapting...

The Cook Islands language video. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s Pacific language video series – "Adapting to a changing world, shaping...

The AUT video ... first of this year's languags series. By Simon Smith of AUT News The Kiribati instalment in the AUT Pacific language video series...

By RNZ Pacific  A range of initiatives for Pacific people was announced in the New Zealand Budget last week. This Wellbeing Budget included increases in funding...

By RNZ Pacific The well-being of Pacific people in New Zealand has been recognised in this year's Budget with increases in funding for the community...