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.
Positive reactions to the Rugby World Cup draw from Fiji, Tonga
Source: RNZ Pacific
Pacific Island unions Fiji and Tonga believe their teams have been given good chances to advance past the first stage of the 2027 Rugby...
Finding a broadcasting point of difference
By Michelle Curran
Executive Communications Manager, PCBL/Pasifika TV
Finding a niche in the market is key to success in business, and television is no...
The War Below: A harsh reality in the Solomon Islands
By Michelle Curran
Executive Communications Manager, PCBL/Pasifika TV
For Solomon Islanders, telling the story of The War Below is a reminder of the daily...
Hundreds of international paddlers descend on Rarotonga for Vaka Eiva festival
Source: RNZ Pacific
Over 700 paddlers from around the world are in Rarotonga this week to compete in the Matson Vaka Eiva – the biggest week of paddling...
TVNZ dominates news and current affairs at NZ Screen Awards
Source: 1News
TVNZ’s excellence in news and current affairs has been recognised at the New Zealand Screen Awards, held in Auckland recently.
The broadcaster’s...
Source: RNZ / Te Ao Māori
Interim radiocarbon dating on a partially excavated waka in Chatham Islands has revealed the waka arrived on the islands in the...
The power of sport was on full display throughout the country, as the Young Pacific Leaders (YPL) Alumni Roadshow made its way across the United States.
Excitement...
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
Nicole Rex Taofinu’u, a renowned champion of growth and sustainability of the media industry in...
Source: by Peter de Graaf / RNZ.
A Hawaiian voyaging canoe has been welcomed back to Waitangi, 40 years after its first visit sparked the revival of ancient...
Source: RNZ Pacific
Director of Tonga’s Women and Children’s Crisis Centre (WCCC) Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki says too many important issues are...
Source: SPREP
While its islands may be small and low-lying, Kiribati is a mighty ocean state.
At COP30, Kiribati is spotlighting its strength and resilience...
Source: Peter de Graaf/RNZ Pacific
Forty years after its first visit sparked the revival of Māori ocean voyaging, the Hawaiian waka Hōkūleʻa is due back...
Source: SPREP
Instrumental in forming the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) to fight for the 1.5°C temperature limit, and for a framework that could deliver...
Source: RNZ Pacific via Cook Islands News
Tiare Henry-Anguna of Tupapa Maraerenga has been crowned Miss Cook Islands 2025, representing the islands of...