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New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical pressures and escalating...

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn...

Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire needs men like Trump

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone If you were wondering why the US establishment was so much more chill about Trump...

Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is

Kidnap, murder, torture, brutality, subversion, treachery, and barbarism, writes Adrian Blackburn reflecting on US President Donald Trump’s New...

A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived

COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in...

Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disaster

By Finau Fonua Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic volcanic eruption tomorrow, Tongan Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni spoke to RNZ Pacific’s Finau...

David Robie – author, activist, journalist and media educator

Café Pacific Dr David Robie is a New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media for more...

Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’

ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country’s Corruption...

‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says academic

RNZ Pacific An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...

Why Pacific Islanders are staying put even as rising seas flood their homes and crops

ANALYSIS: By Merewalesi Yee, The University of Queensland; Annah Piggott-McKellar, Queensland University of Technology; Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Karen E McNamara,...

Paris court overturns statute of limitation in Tahiti corruption case

RNZ Pacific France’s highest court has revived French Polynesia’s largest corruption case, which had been closed almost more than three years ago. Eight people, including former...