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Vaccinate and celebrate language and culture, Tuvaluans urged
A Tuvaluan leader in Aotearoa New Zealand is urging his community to take their eligible family members to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Facebook misinfo is hurting PNG, Marape tells UN
29 minutes agoPapua New Guinea's Prime Minister has called for more international effort to counter misinformation about Covid-19 vaccination.
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In Brief: News from around the Pacific
Fiji PM calls for better global co-operation on pandemic, Samoa's PM reflects on political standoff, and more.
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Covid-19: Fiji's old capital becomes a location of interest
The remote island of Ovalau in Fiji is the new area of interest after two people in quarantine tested positive for Covid-19, health authorities said.
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Phone chats with Xi for Tonga and Solomons leaders
China's President Xi Jinping has held phone talks with the King of Tonga and the prime minster of Solomon Islands in recent days.
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Samoa's PM highlights climate threat to oceans at UN
Samoa's prime minister has put climate change and ocean protection to the fore in a speech to the United Nations.
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Episode 3: Bullets on Black Saturday (Samoa) | Untold Pacific History
This episode examines the fatal consequences of New Zealand’s rule in Samoa, and the key events that led to the rise of Samoa's ‘Mau’ resistance movement. Video, Audio
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Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History
What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge? Video, Audio
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Episode 1: Waking Up to the Dawn Raids (Aotearoa) | Untold Pacific History
Of the many events affecting Pasifika people in Aotearoa, the Dawn Raids story is overdue to be told. Long whispered about in secret family conversations, people have heard the words ‘Dawn Raids’ but not what really happened. Video, Audio
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'There's no shame': Pasifika mums urged to get help for depression
Pacific women in Aotearoa New Zealand have the highest rates of antenatal, postnatal and perinatal depression, yet low numbers to get help. Sela Jane Hopgood asks why.
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Pasifika journalist speaks out on having perinatal depression: 'It got so bad'
7 May 2021First Person - Pasifika journalist Sela Jane Hopgood was sceptical when offered medication for perinatal depression, but, she writes, saying yes saved her life.
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Samoa election crisis: What you need to know
27 May 2021Explainer - Samoa has been struggling with a confrontational constitutional crisis. Audio
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History made in NZ with first Pasifika judge outside Auckland
The New Zealand city of Lower Hutt has become the first, outside Auckland, with a Pasifika resident district court judge Michael Alaifatu Mika. Audio
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Pacific language video series highlights key facts about strokes
A new video series in Pacific languages aims to bust health myths surrounding stroke.
Presenters
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Christine Rovoi
Station: International
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Don Wiseman
Station: International
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Johnny Blades
Station: International
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Koroi Hawkins
Station: International
Programmes: Pacific Waves, Pacific Waves
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Mariner Fagaiava-Muller
Station: International
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Sela Jane Hopgood
Station: International
Programmes: Pacific Waves, Champions of the Pacific, World & Pacific News, Pacific Waves
Programmes
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World & Pacific News
A bulletin of Pacific News and a sports report.
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Tagata o te Moana
A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music. This programme is also simulcast domestically on RNZ National.
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News in Pacific Languages
Pacific language news bulletins in Tongan, Samoan, Pidgin, French, Cook Islands Maori and Niuean.
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Champions of the Pacific
A weekly sports show exploring the triumphs, struggles and passions of the Pasifika athlete. Wednesdays at 9:40pm or via shortwave and digital broadcast from early Wednesday on RNZ…
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Pacific Waves
A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in…