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Tonga renews Covid-19 SOE, Samoa's biggest Church to hold annual Fono, Tonga's PM welcomes King's chastising of Parliament.

Australia promised big spending to help economic recovery and win backing from older voters and women, including measures designed to support women leaving violent relationships.

Nearly 60 percent of people in Japan want the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled, an opinion poll showed on Monday, fewer than three months before the games are due to begin.

Tongan parliamentarians criticised in scathing speech by King; China draws up plans to upgrade an airstrip and bridge on Kiribati; Asian Development Bank has a five-year plan to help Pacific, and…

The party of Samoa's caretaker government is walking back suggestions from its leader that Facebook could be banned before the next election.

Labour's announcement of a public service wage freeze took everyone by surprise. Was it a party taking aim at its traditional support base, or a minister losing control of the narrative? 

Power Play - The He Puapua report on how to better uphold indigenous rights was supposed to chart a new way forward but has become bogged down in the swamp of politics, Meriana Johnsen writes.

Analysis - An obscure report comes under the spotlight as Judith Collins continues to claim the government is on a path to racial segregation, China tells New Zealand to mind its own business, a…

New candidates will not be allowed to contest Samoa's second election of the year.

New candidates will not be allowed to contest Samoa's second election of the year - due to be held later this month.

The Biden administration plans to release a list of corrupt Central American officials who may be subject to sanctions as the US seeks to cut back on a root cause of increased migration to the…

Mediawatch’s weekly catchup with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn Hay about the media unpicking the political strategy behind warnings of “separatism.” Also: ‘Bunny-pocalypse Now’ in the South…

The decision by Samoa's head of state to call a second election will be challenged in the courts, as the country's month-long political stalemate descends into legal quagmire.

Opinion - the declaration by Samoa's Head of State, Tuimaleali'ifano Sualauvi Va'aletoa II, for a new general election is unconstitutional and unlawful writes Fuimaono Dylan Asafo.

Samoa's Head of State has called for a second general election to bring an end to a deadlock in parliament.

A 20-year plan to establish Māori sovereignty is political dynamite. It threatens the prime minister's reputation as open and transparent, Graham Adams writes.

Biden's flip on American refugee numbers erases Trump's historically low number

The author of a report described by National leader Judith Collins as "divisive" says she wishes it was not used as a "political tool".

The Cook Islands bubble will open later this month, allowing two-way quarantine-free travel between both countries, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

Mediawatch: News organisations often report the results of informal polls they carry out by embedding surveys in stories or on social media. Mathematically minded people argue this means they're… Audio