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Youth law advocacy group, Just Speak, is suggesting the whole criminal justice system needs reviewing to see if prevention programmes are really working.

The body reviewing the Pacific's blue print for regional development, the Pacific Plan, says the Pacific Islands Forum itself has to adapt. The Plan is the key document driving the...

Fiji's prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has told a meeting in Hong Kong that it is a myth that the South must depend fully on developed countries for technology. Speaking...

Outrage is growing in South Africa over the renovation bill for President Jacob Zuma's private retirement home.

A new labour market study in Germany shows that one in four workers are employed in the low-wage sector and take home less than two-thirds of the national average pay.

Hundreds of youths in Sweden have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm.

New Zealand's minister of Pacific Islands Affairs says there has been no cut to funding at the ministry, despite claims by an opposition MP. Hekia Parata says the baseline figure...

A New Zealand Pacific parliamentarian has criticised New Zealand's Minister of Pacific Islands Affairs for failing to stem growing inequality. Labour's spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs Su'a…

Police had to physically restrain protesters outside a post-Budget business meeting in Auckland attended by Prime Minister John Key.

Former Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will no longer vote for the governing African National Congress party.

The International Monetary Fund says the Government and the Reserve Bank are on the right track to deal with the challenges that face the domestic economy, but the country would be vulnerable to large…

The United Nations Development Programme's Resident Representative in the Pacific says mineral extraction in the region could do more harm than good if it is not managed properly. Knut Ostby...

The new Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has said he will fight for "the great renaissance of the Chinese nation," in his first speech as head of state.

The Government's books are in better shape than forecast in December 2012, but the Green Party says it is at the expense of the unemployed.

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the richest 1% of Americans now hold 25% of the country's wealth and more needs to be done to boost equality.

The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest four times over, aid agency Oxfam has said.

Pope Benedict XVI has highlighted unregulated financial capitalism as a major source of tension and confrontation in the world.