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By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist World Vision's Vanuatu country director says electricity and water are still affected in the capital Port Vila and strategic...
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Dec 4, 2015 · The South African 'Don't Panic Buy' jingle. Video: ENCA/PickNSave PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part...
Nauru-Australia Treaty: Strategic gain or ‘corrupt arrangement’?
Dec 11, 2024 · By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific journalist Refugee advocates and academics are weighing in on Australia’s latest move on the Pacific geopolitical chessboard. Canberra is ploughing A$100 million over the next five years into Nauru, a remote 21 sq km atoll with a population of just over 12,000.
Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – …
Dec 17, 2024 · ANALYSIS: By Sione Tekiteki, Auckland University of Technology The A$140 million aid agreement between Australia and Nauru signed last week is a prime example of the geopolitical tightrope vulnerable Pacific nations are walking in the 21st century.. The deal provides Nauru with direct budgetary support, stable banking services, and policing and security resources.
US on target in Guam with first Marine redeployment and missile …
Dec 16, 2024 · The United States is advancing the fortification of its territory closest to China with the arrival of the first Marines from Okinawa and its first interceptor missile test in Guam last week. About 100 Marines from Japan landed on Saturday, the vanguard of about 5000 due to be relocated to Guam ...
UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific ...
Dec 12, 2024 · Asia Pacific Report. The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip — but three of the isolated nine countries that voted against are Pacific island states, including Papua New Guinea.. The assembly passed a resolution yesterday demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which was adopted with 158 ...
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Nov 25, 2023 · RNZ News Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand's public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after...
ICJ to begin hearings in landmark Pacific climate change case …
Dec 2, 2024 · A landmark case that began in a Pacific classroom and could change the course of future climate talks is about to be heard in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The court will begin hearings involving a record number of countries in The Hague, in the Netherlands, today. Its 15 judges have ...
COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit
Nov 30, 2024 · As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations after another meeting under-delivered. Two weeks of intensive negotiations at COP29, hosted by Azerbaijan and attended by 55,000 delegates, resulted in a consensus decision ...
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May 6, 2024 · By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist. A Pacific regionalism academic has called out New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters for withholding information from the public on AUKUS and says the security deal “raises serious questions for the Pacific region”.