Tag: New Zealand
Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...
Archive: Rabuka stirs bitter media freedom row
Former Fiji military strongman Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka is now deputy Prime Minister in the civilian interim government. As leader of the 1987 coups d'état,...
Archive: ‘A subversive in Kanaky’ – something out of a B-grade police movie?
French police and soldiers harassed and arrested Islands Business correspondent David Robie during an assignment in New Caledonia in January 1987. It was his...
Archive: Bicycle snoop riles the Baltic
By David Robie in The New Zealand Times
Is Sweden breaching its long tradition of neutrality and secretly cooperating with Nato countries? Yes, believes controversial...