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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia's homeboy Kauli Vaast has won the Olympic gold medal in the men's shortboard finals...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a ...
Nov 15, 2024 · ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of …
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 ...
COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic ...
Nov 25, 2024 · The figure was well short of what developing nations were asking for — more than US$1 trillion in assistance. ‘Failure of leadership’ Campaigners and non-governmental organisations called it a “betrayal” and “a shameful failure of leadership”, forcing climate vulnerable nations, such as the Pacific Islands, “to accept a …
Superpower rivalry makes Pacific aid a bargaining chip – …
5 days ago · 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 …
6 days ago · 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 ...
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 ...
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.
COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?
Nov 13, 2024 · By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent. New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is going to the global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan next week, where he will be co-leading talks on international carbon trading.
Civil society groups call on NZ to bar new Israeli envoy over …
4 days ago · Asia Pacific Report. A broad coalition of civil society organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand have signed an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters urging the coalition government to refuse to accept the credentials of a new Israeli ambassador while the state continues to disregard international law and to commit war crimes.. The term of Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand ...