Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’
Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...
Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying price of corporate greed crisis
By Nick Young of Greenpeace
My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged.
Many...
Future of Fiji’s democracy at stake over coalition, warns Ratuva
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
New Zealand-based Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva says that if the coalition government is strong, resilient and lasts, “this will...
Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...
Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake of mayor Wayne Brown’s ‘drongos’ text
RNZ News
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is under fire for calling New Zealand journalists “drongos”, blaming them for having to cancel a round of tennis...
Union Calédonian proposes historic September 24 date for ‘independence accord’
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia’s pro-independence Union Calédonian has proposed September 24 this year as the date by which an accord should be reached with France...