Suspected and confirmed cases of whooping cough have reached 127 in Samoa. Samoa’s deputy director general of health, Dr Robert Thomsen, said 14 cases were confirmed and 113 suspected between ...

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including search for missing divers in Palau continues, and Tonga’s new PM will name Cabinet line-up next week The search continues for eight divers ...

The team consists of 9 highly trained professionals, including psychiatrists, primary care nurses, mental health specialists, ...

The team of 40 Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) specialists who deployed last week as part of a mission led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) are scheduled to depart Vanuatu on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...