News & Current Affairs
Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) aims to bring the best of New Zealand content to you via its contribution feed service Pasifika TV. We will keep you updated with the latest news and current affairs happening locally and from the Pacific.
Tuvalu calls for sea level rise treaty at UN Oceans Conference
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo has called for an international treaty on sea level rise at the United Nations Oceans Conference (UNOC) in France.
Speaking...
Pacific filmmaker illuminates the impact of inconsistently treated mental illness in new documentary
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
When director Kimberlee Bassford set about profiling her inspiration, the trailblazing novelist...
Tonga princess calls for legal rights for whales
Source: RNZ Pacific
Tonga’s Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho is calling for whales to have legal rights.
Speaking to the One Ocean Science...
Kiribati pilot inspiring the next generation of Pacific aviators
Source: RNZ Pacific
When Salote Mataitini first dreamed of becoming a pilot, she was a child reading newspaper articles about aviators, long before iPhones...
Young Pacific Leaders set to address ocean health at UNOC
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
All eyes are on the world’s oceans and how leaders will strive to sustain the vital life source,...
Source: RNZ Pacific via ABC
The sea used to wreak havoc as it crashed into Simeona Tapeneko’s village in Samoa.
Water would flood the houses in Lauli’i,...
A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King’s Birthday honours list reflects the importance of connecting young tagata Niue...
Source: RNZ Pacific via PINA
More than a decade ago, Tropical Cyclone Evan roared through Samoa’s capital, Apia, and its surrounding villages.
The...
Source: RNZ Pacific
Palau is ready to host the 2025 Pacific Mini Games assures Games Organising Committee Chairman Dr Patrick Tellei.
He promises athletes,...
Source: RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea’s state broadcaster NBC wants shortwave radio reintroduced to achieve the Government’s goal of 100 percent...
As climate change continues to devastate communities across the Pacific, media practitioners have gathered at the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC)...
Source: RNZ Pacific
A public health expert is urging anyone travelling to places with a current dengue fever outbreak to be vigilant and take sensible...
Source: RNZ Pacific
Patrick Pellegrini has stamped his mark among the best flyhalves in the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific competition.
Unknown to most rugby...
Source: RNZ Pacific
The United Nations (UN) human rights experts have written to the Japanese Government to express their concerns about the release of...