Tag: Pandemic

By Rambo Talabong in Manila Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Archie Gamboa has called on protesters preparing for rallies on President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2020...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, of Massey University The starting gates in New Zealand’s September 19 election race are finally full. Labour’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...

Not everyone is in the same boat! Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues that inequality starts at the top...

COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis in Sydney The man with his hands on the tiller of the Fijian economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has always been a great...

By Robert Iroga in Honiara Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) has publicly thanked one of the Solomon islands' longest serving journalists and newspaper editors Ofani Eremae...

By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in...

By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific Correspondent The Cook Islands government's inaccurate and startling announcement yesterday about a tourism bubble opening with New Zealand as...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...

By Ben Bilua in Suva Experts have challenged the value of immediate implementation of tourism or travel "bubbles", saying that it is too early to...

By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News Grey Power is enraged by what it says is the "stupid and dangerous" behaviour of people fleeing managed isolation facilities,...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...

By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...

By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...

COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus. Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...

From RNZ News Checkpoint David Clark is out and Chris Hipkins is in as New Zealand's new Health Minister until the election in September. Hipkins told...

By Zahra Karim Didarali The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...

By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...

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...