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By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea Ten days into 2024, Port Moresby descended into chaos as opportunists looted and burned shops in Waigani,...

By Elena Vucukula in Suva Children are abandoned and forgotten when a large number of Fijians leave the country for work and start new relationships...

OBITUARY: By Dominic O'Sullivan Tui Rererangi Walsh O'Sullivan, 4 July 1940 -- 20 May 2023 Kia ora koutau katoa. Kia ora mo o koutou haerenga i...

RNZ News Leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific community believe the appointment of the country's first deputy prime minister of Pacific descent will bring positive...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Dr Lee Duffield The launch of a New Zealand project to produce more Pacific news and provide a “voice for the voiceless”...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new Aotearoa New Zealand book focusing on activists and their causes against militarism and for social struggles and climate...

By Jairo Bolledo of Rappler in Manila Former Philippines vice-presidential candidate and Laban ng Masa chairperson Walden Bello has been arrested for two counts of...

By Mara Cepeda in Manila Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo will not allow the massive, volunteer-led movement she inspired in the 2022 presidential elections to just...

COMMENTARY:  By Gordon Campbell In recent weeks, barely a day has gone by without Christopher Luxon demonstrating the chasm of ability that exists between the...

By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific deputy news editor Experts are warning that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be...

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September  2001 -- now...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour's act this week undermining an indigenous response to New...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Days after being condemned by the largest Pacific Island capital -- Port Moresby, the Economist's Global Liveability Index has been criticised...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy, this week invested social justice advocate and former Green Party MP Keith Locke as a Member...

ANALYSIS: By Brendon Blue for The Democracy Project The day after New Zealand's first lockdown was announced, I expressed to a senior colleague my concern...

COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce You can't get the right answer if you keep asking the wrong question. A question this neoliberal New Zealand government and previous...

COMMENT: By Shilo Kino What were you doing during the foreshore and seabed hīkoi in 2004? I wish I could say I was at the protest, gripping...

ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights has called for stronger accountability and commitment to human rights at home in response to...

K Road Chronicles video produced by Stuff with NZ On Air. By RNZ's The Weekend with Karyn Hay The K Road Chronicles is a New Zealand webseries...

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud The notion that the covid-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal...