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RNZ Pacific (formerly RNZI) provides comprehensive Pacific coverage with the very latest Pacific stories and an extensive online news archive. Podcasts, a live audio feed and on-demand programmes are also available.
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Pacific Waves: News In Depth
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COP29: Pacific negotiators frustrated by 'slow process' of climate talks
about 1 hour agoPacific climate leaders are frustrated by the sluggish rate of progress made during the first week of the UN climate meeting.
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Snap election looms in Vanuatu
The president of the Republic of Vanuatu has dissolved parliament, triggering a snap-election.
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Tongan Vanuatuan woman graduated from World Maritime University
"If you want something in life you have to go after it" World Maritime University graduate wants more women in maritime.
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Bird flu - CNMI bans live poultry imports from Hawai'i
The CNMI has temporarily banned live poultry and hatching egg imports from Hawai'i.
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Pacific news in brief for 19 November
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a plastics pilot project in Fiji.
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Fijian-American woman aims for the stars
Neharika Gambhir is originally from Suva and is now based in Washington DC, where she joined the all-female crew of the Analog Expedition 92.
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Featured stories
Untold Pacific History
A dynamic and often provocative account of NZ's relationship with the Pacific.
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Documentary: Stories of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
4 Jan 2024January 15th marks two years since the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano which devastated the kingdom of Tonga.
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Here are the Pacific recipients of the New Year Honours list for 2024
4 Jan 2024Pasifika academics, artists, and advocates are among the recipients of New Zealand's 2024 New Year Honours.
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The year that was - RNZ Pacific looks back at the big issues of 2023
1 Jan 2024RNZ Pacific has covered stories on a diverse range of topics in 2023.
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2023 replay: a look back at Pacific sport this year
1 Jan 2024Analysis - the 2023 sports season brought up surprises, disappointments, and a notable event in Honiara for the Pacific.
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RNZ Pacific cyclone watch service is operating
18 Dec 2023RNZ Pacific has updated the on-air frequencies for its cyclone watch service for the 2023-2024 cyclone season.
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RNZ marks 75 years of broadcasting shortwave into the Pacific
13 Nov 2023It has been 75 years since Radio New Zealand commenced broadcasting on shortwave frequencies, into the Pacific region.
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Pacific Games: How it all began 60 years ago
12 Sep 2023It all began with a toss of a ball and the smash of a tennis racquet. The Cook Islands' Nono Tani's swift serve to her opponent at 9am on Thursday, August 29, 1963 thus kicked off the South Pacific Games in Suva. Video
Presenters
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Christina Persico
Station: Pacific
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Don Wiseman
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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IIiesa Tora
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Koroi Hawkins
Station: Pacific
Programme: Untold Pacific History
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Lydia Lewis
Station: Pacific
Programme: World & Pacific News
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Marama T-Pole
Stations: Pacific, National
Programme: News
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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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…
