Politics

Cuban envoy makes strong plea for his country defying US blockade

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate plea for his country’s sovereignty in defiance of the illegal US-imposed...

Corruption reporting project mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist

OBITUARY: By Aubrey Belford, Australia and South Pacific regional editor of OCCRP The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project...

Caitlin Johnstone: Iran is forcing the world to care about US-Israeli warmongering

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran...

Iran’s ‘Samson option’: Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic behind Tehran’s next move

ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to...

Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a...

Highly secretive Five Eyes alliance disrupts China-backed hacker group

ANALYSIS: By Dennis B. Desmond This week the Five Eyes alliance — an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the...

Living museum’ will help bring Fiji’s Girmit experience by storytelling

By Rachael Nath In a significant step toward preserving and commemorating Fiji’s rich history, efforts are underway to establish the country’s first living museum. This unique...

Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy

By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement of a lease distribution policy with the iTaukei Land Trust...

Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case

RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...

PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...

Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing...