Tag: Virus

COMMENT: By Sue Bradford for Pundit and RNZ News In the age of covid-19 we are Jacinda's team of five million, except for some. There has rarely...

ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost...

By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has asked Paris for the referendum on independence from France to be deferred by up to two...

Sing the pandemic away. Video: The Jakarta Post Pacific Media Watch In a bid to advise people to follow health instructions to contain the spread of...

By RNZ News New Zealand's opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges was today dumped by a relative unknown, agriculture and biosecurity spokesperson Todd Muller. Commentators believe...

COMMENT: By Keith Locke The covid-19 coronavirus crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas in New Zealand, not least on foreign...

By RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea's West Sepik province says people are still defying the official border closure and crossing into Indonesia. Vanimo,...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ Manu Korihi reporter New Zealand's border restrictions have cut off more than 90 percent of visitors to Rotorua's oldest tourism...

By RNZ News Many people have revelled in a return to a simpler life in recent weeks. While lockdown restrictions are eased in many...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...

By RNZ News It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for covid-19 coronavirus is widely available, says former New...

By Robert Baird in Dili Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say...

By Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko in Jakarta/Bandung/Blitar/Semarang Indonesia’s most populous island of Java has become the country’s epicentre of the...

By RNZ Pacific A High Court judge in Fiji has thrown out fines handed to 49 people who were caught breaching curfew or social gathering...

By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Quietly passing us by in these frenetic covid-19 coronavirus weeks as New Zealand takes a big step back to...

Pacific Media Centre TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...

By Katie Scotcher, reporter for RNZ News A New Zealand doctors' union fears the Waitematā District Health Board is covering up mistakes that led to...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji has put its hand up to join New Zealand and Australia's travel bubble amid the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, New Zealand...

ANALYSIS: By Vissia Ita Yulianto of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Jian-bang Deng of Tamkang University Before the covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, the...

By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National and Supreme Court sittings in Waigani, NCD, resumed under the “new normal” yesterday - no...