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Nikki Upoko of Ura Tabu practices her dance
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Auckland is welcoming back one of its biggest annual events, the Pasifika Festival, this weekend - and this time at a new venue. Celebrating all things Pasifika since 1993, this year's event is being held at Mt Smart Stadium with the second day today, instead of the usual...
Alec Toleafoa, Tigilau Ness, Melani Anae, and Will 'Ilolahia (L-R).
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A Pacific social justice movement is calling on the New Zealand government to formally apologize for the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The Labour and then National governments of the time authorised police raids on Pasifika homes and work places, to check for overstayers; even...
Soul Sessions poster
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand is expected to reverberate this weekend with the sounds of the coming generation of musical stars. A new gospel music show featuring renowned and rising Pacific artists will be broadcast across the country on Sunday. Soul Sessions aimed to target the diverse...
Judith Collins
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — National is calling on the Government to allow quarantine-free travel from Samoa, Tonga and Fiji into New Zealand, Leader of the Opposition and Nationals Pacific Peoples spokesperson Judith Collins says.  National is calling on the Government to allow quarantine-free...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Joseph Parker has won the biggest bout in heavyweight boxing in this country for years, beating Junior Fa in Auckland Friday night. The bout went the full 12 rounds, with Parker finishing ahead on all three judges scorecards - 119-109, 115-113, 117-111 - to collect a...
Tasi and Ioana Parker with their dog
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The family of a Kiwi woman, who recently found out she was dying of cancer, say the process of trying to get her Samoan parents an emergency allocation in a managed isolation facility has been frustrating. Tasi and Ioana Parker, New Zealand citizens who retired to Samoa...
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19. The measures will last three days and require residents to stay at home. Ms Ardern said the country was...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — There's a brown, bi-cultural generation changing the face of New Zealand That's according to the Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, who previously told RNZ Pacific that as many as two thirds of New Zealand born-Pasifika now had Māori whakapapa as well. He said...
Samoa News is reporting on New Zealand’s current battle against the coronavirus, in light of the first repatriation flight due in from the U.S to the Territory on Feb 1st. First, let me state that I am not against the repatriation flights, — after all I have been unable to return home since last...
Cartoon of Trump drinking from a bottle
Queensland, AUSTRALIA — Prior to this pandemic, there has been a long-held view in these same countries that only fragile states and low-income countries will fail during a pandemic, and would need benevolent assistance from high-income countries. This is best reflected in the 2019 Global Health...

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