Monthly Archives: October 2022

Journalist, Melina Etches, was recently covering a story for the Cook Islands News about the Vaka Okeanos Waa’Qab that departed for the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands earlier this week with a team from Macquarie University, Australia. In … Continue reading →

Radio New Zealand’s Pacific journalist, Susana Suisuiki, wrote about the first Melanesian Festival that took place over the weekend at the Waitemata Rugby Club Grounds in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand… There are around 23,000 Melanesians living in Aotearoa. Fijians make … Continue reading →

Journalist Mabel Muller recently wrote a piece for Coconet TV about a new art exhibition by a Samoan visual artist who hopes to challenge people’s perception around skulls and what it normally represents in the western culture. Aua e te … Continue reading →

The Solomon Times posted an article written by journalist, Samson Sade, about how a recent auction by a rare arts collector in London saw a traditional comb from the Solomon Islands being sold for close to SBD$10,000. The art and … Continue reading →

Last week Radio New Zealand and the Daily Mail.com reported that a wild fire has damaged the enigmatic statues on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, with some of the charring said to be irreparable. On Easter Island, which lies some … Continue reading →

Radio New Zealand Journalist, Rachael Nath, recently wrote a piece about how narratives around the Girmit language or Fiji-Hindi as a broken language are erroneous and endanger growth progression. Linguist Dr Farzana Gounder, a direct Girmit descendant and a representative of Fiji … Continue reading →

It’s Fijian Language Week in New Zealand and writer Rachael Nath wrote an article that was posted on the Radio New Zealand Website about how concerns were raised about the future survival of the iTaukei (Fijian) language as a threat … Continue reading →

Journalist, Josepheen Tarianga, covered the 2022 Vanuatu Market Day last week for the Vanuatu Daily Post, and thought it was worth sharing… The 4th edition of the ‘Vanuatu Made’ Market Day event was set for 28th to the 30th of September, … Continue reading →