Fiji police say those living in flood-prone areas in the Western Division should move to higher ground due to flooding. Fiji police say those living in flood-prone areas in the Western Division should ...

Vila Central Hospital staff have been pulling long hours with many leaving their families to look after the injured after last week’s devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake.Koroi Hawkins, RNZ ...

Indonesia’s new president Prabowo Subianto has revealed plans to pardon as many as 44,000 convicts – about a third of the country’s prison population.Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific Senior Journalist ...

A block resignation means the whole government of New Caledonia is deemed to have resigned, and should now act in a caretaker mode. Patrick Decloitre, Correspondent, French Pacific Desk New ...

Four passengers and the pilot were onboard when the plane crashed in a remote area of Morobe Province.Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Five people have died in a plane crash in a remote area ...

The discovery of a prion disease, kuru, in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea that was transmitted by consuming contaminated human brain tissue of family members during funeral rites demonstrated ...

The Cook Islands can only have its own passport if it gives up New Zealand citizenship, the office of New Zealand’s Foreign ...

I could feel that my jaw might be broken and looking down I saw blood on the concrete.” Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor ...

Former PM Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni resigned on 9 December ahead of a no-confidence motion.‘Aisake Eke is the new prime minister of Tonga. He won the secret ballot votes 16-8 at ...

NZDFs Senior National Representative for Operation Resolution, Commodore Andrew Brown, said being able to lay the anchors and ...

In addition to the RRO, the World Bank is also carrying out a Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) that will help estimate the economic damage caused by the earthquake. PORT VILA, ...

As strong aftershocks continue, some people are afraid to go back to their homes while others have attended outdoor church ...