Stories by Kelvin Anthony

Fourteen 14 sitting MPs lose seats, incumbent president Taneti Maamau as well as opposition leader back, 17 new and 27 returning MPs.

Ruth Cross Kwansing is one of 18 female candidates out of 114 vying for a parliamentary seat in Kiribati's national election.

A local resident in the capital Tarawa told RNZ Pacific on the eve of the election is an "important moment" for people of Micronesian nation.

The Foreign Minister has "hung…out to dry" Fiji's suspended director of public prosecutions who wrote to him seeking assistance, a former Fijian government advisor-cum-critic says.

The NZ Law Society, along with the Fiji Law Society, has expressed concerns of slow progress by the Fijian government in dealing with its suspended Kiwi public prosecutor's case.

Christopher Pryde, a NZ citizen, has written to Winston Peters seeking assistance to "address a grave injustice perpetrated" by the Fijian government.

A significant shift in Fiji's political landscape is expected Friday as the largest political party in parliament is set to be deregistered. Audio

Police brutality will further escalate tensions between pro-independence activists and French security forces in New Caledonia, a senior church leader in Nouméa says.

"I doubt our MPs can see the poor and the ordinary from their tinted cars," a former parliamentarian says.

Police are warning that the military is authorised to use lethal weapons if the violence doesn't abate.

There is an active attempt to remove the elections chief from her role, critics say, as the Fijian coalition government gets caught up in another undesired political drama.

New study published by researchers from the University of Vienna and USP says while more than half of the journalistic workforce is made up of women "violence against them is normalised by men".

Shushila Chang was banned from returning to Fiji by the Bainimarama government after she fled the country during Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020 to be with her sick husband.

Fiji's sacked assistant public prosecutor plans to sue the state for unlawful and unfair dismissal, discriminatory treatment based on race, and defamation.

Jale Aukerea, 42, was among 13 people charged over two separate seizures of a total of 4.8 tonnes of meth last month.

Chaos broke out as looters took advantage of a protest by the country's police. As well as those who are dead, dozens are injured.

Fiji's Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua announced on Wednesday that the government will embark on a national security and defence review exercise in the new year.

The use of language such as "gender" and "feminism" can be a hindrance to engaging Pacific men to supporting women's leadership in the region, new research has found.

The call comes from about two dozen countries that call themselves the climate high ambition coalition.

The Fiji Meteorological Service says Tropical Cyclone Mal is "likely to has intensify" into a category 3 system as it approaches the Fiji Group on Tuesday night.

Pacific Churches welcome Melanesian Spearhead Group decision to appoint Fiji and Papua New Guinea PMs as special envoys to Indonesia to "address West Papua issue".

Pacific youth environmental advocates have handed their "demands" for climate action to the head of the region's premier political organisation.

Melanesian leaders have agreed to write to the French President "expressing their strong opposition" to the results of the third New Caledonia referendum.

People in Vanuatu believe politicians need to look beyond their own four walls and work to improve the livelihoods of ordinary citizens.

The Vanuatu Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the opposition, who contested a decision by parliament's speaker regarding what constitutes an absolute majority in parliament.