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New Caledonia's three politicians who sit in the French legislature have asked for New Caledonia to be included in the national debate triggered by France's yellow vest protests.

Theresa May urged lawmakers for more time to rework the agreement with EU, heightening concerns that Brexit uncertainty will continue right up to the edge of the UK's departure on 29 March.

Papua New Guinea's prime minister has re-affirmed his government's commitment to the Bougainville independence referendum but says the date for the vote has not been finalised.

A mother who gives her son medicinal cannabis to treat his violent seizures is terrified they will be without medicine, following what growers call a massive aerial cull of the crop. Audio

Samoa's former head of state Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi and the Asian Development Bank are new defendants in customary land law legal action.

Bougainville's independence referendum date set for June this year is reportedly likely to be postponed to October.

European Council President Donald Tusk has spoken of a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely".

Landowners near the Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville region have voiced outrage at the local government's new mining plan. Audio

Adding Aotearoa to the country's official name is a good idea but the government has other priorities first, the acting minister for Māori development says.

A petition calling for a referendum to decide whether Aotearoa should officially be used alongside New Zealand as the name for the country has been launched. Audio

The government of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea believes establishing its own company to re-open the long shut Panguna mine will solve its funding crisis going into the referendum.

Indonesia has agreed in principle to allow the office of the UN human rights commissioner into Papua region, or West Papua.

Opinion - British MPs have just voted against a 'no deal' Brexit, but the EU and the Irish government say they won't renegotiate - putting the odds of no-deal happening anyway around 60-40 on, David…

The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville is about to change its mining law to accommodate an investor from Perth.

Theresa May has told MPs she will seek to re-open negotiations with the EU over the Northern Ireland backstop.

Vanuatu will hold its first ever referendum in June with people being given the opportunity to vote for political reform laws.

A petition by West Papuans seeking decolonisation has been handed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.

Successive bombings during a church service in the southern Philippines have killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens more, security officials said.

Having to reveal a politically-damaging failure like the inability to meet the KiwiBuild target wasn't the best way for the government to start 2019, writes Peter Wilson.

Scotland's former First Minister Alex Salmond has appeared in court charged with attempted rape and sexual assault.