"No to neocolonialism" is the message from Christian Téin of the protest field group CCAT and thousands of protesters in Nouméa. Image: APR screenshot ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific ...

The Melanesian Spearhead Group has thrown away a golden chance for achieving a historical step towards justice and peace in West Papua by lacking the courage to accept the main Papuan ...

Filipino media "influencers" complicit in Israeli propaganda programme . . . "In a Facebook post, Wilson Lee Flores further parrots Israel’s propaganda by highlighting how the brutal IDF employs both ...

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge in their tutorial - find an innovative ...

The local West Papua action group in Dunedin has met Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and raised human rights and militarisation issues that members believe the New Zealand government should be pursuing with ...

A stand-off between armed French riot police and unarmed indigenous Kanak protesters supporting independence in Noumea in the 1980s. Image: David Robie/PMC Long-term New Caledonian residents and ...

Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South ...

Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight’s coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition government headed by Mahendra Chaudhry, the first and only Indo-Fijian prime ...

Long live the king and long may he reign, so goes the traditional proclamation. In Tonga, King Tupou VI has shown he has every intention of doing that. After a tumultuous and tense year of the chess ...

A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua New Guinea in February has spoken out after the kidnapping and reported rape of 17 schoolgirls in the same area of Southern Highlands earlier this ...

The Gaza ceasefire agreement has been finally been agreed to by the Netanyahu government, but "Israeli mendacity and manipulation is pitifully predictable", writes independent journalist and analyst ...

Israel's "apartheid wall" looms high above Aida refugee camp, up to nine metres tall in some places. Image: Cole Martin Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin ...