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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the total fisheries observer coverage on all purse-seiners fishing in Pacific waters is suspended until 31 July.

Dozens of Covid-19 community based testing centres around the country are closing down.

Police are using the Eagle helicopters for an average of more than 16 incidents a day, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $2000 an hour.

Two Marshall Islanders who drifted at sea for 42 days, and seven others, have returned home as part of the first group to do so since a March travel ban was put in place.

Aerial drones will soon be helping the Papua New Guinea defence force with border surveillance.

It's hoped New Zealand efforts to flatten the Covid-19 curve will translate into a milder flu season this winter.

China is poised to enshrine individuals' rights to privacy and personal data for the first time, as the country's first civil code.

Papua New Guinea's acting Secretary of Health says the daily increase of Covid-19 cases in West Papua poses a great threat to his country.

The first Solomon Islands repatriation flight is scheduled to take place tomorrow out of Australia.

A ceremony has been held in French Polynesia to mark the 18th anniversary of the disappearance of a leading opposition politician in the Tuamotus.

The government's finally introduced a contact tracing app, but questions remain over its effectiveness, how transparent the process has been, and inconsistencies involved.

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand does not have to move down a full level in order to wind down restrictions. Video

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says there are no new cases to report, but New Zealand has added four cases to its confirmed cases. Video

The Police Commissioner has ordered a stocktake of surveillance technologies after police trialed controversial facial recognition software without consulting his office.

A district health board that is looking at options for a new national infection surveillance system says this has nothing to do with Covid-19.

Analysis - The Budget has given the government the money to repair the economy, but it could be in trouble if it isn't seen to be delivering between now and the election, Peter Wilson writes.

Minister of Justice Andrew Little says he does not know what police used the controversial facial recognition software in the trial for.

While cases of Covid-19 shoot up in wealthy Singapore and the disease continues on a worrying trend elsewhere in South-East Asia, Vietnam is an unlikely outlier. Video

The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas has recorded a new Covid-19 case.

Measures to curb the spread of coronavirus will be kept in place in Paris when the lockdown is eased in other parts of France from Monday.