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Denise Fisher 59 minutes ago France tries again to rewrite New Caledonia’s voter rolls A rushed change to New Caledonia’s voter eligibility deepens divisions just weeks before local elections.
Jing Ge 20 hours ago Japan’s quiet test of China diplomacy The visit of a cabinet minister to an APEC forum is a small move – but it marks the highest official contact since the stoush over Taiwan.
Sinclair Dinnen , Miranda Forsyth 22 hours ago The “hiremen” inside PNG’s market for Highlands violence The guns for hire ravaging Papua New Guinea’s Highlands are a symptom – the patronage networks funding them are the disease.
David Nellor 1 day ago Big Tech wants to join the HALO club The AI buildout has already created heavy assets – whether they achieve low obsolescence is the defining economic question of the decade.
Mohd. Yunus 1 day ago The haze over Southeast Asia clouds more than the sky The annual haze blankets three countries every year not because of climate alone but because land conversion remains economically rewarding.
Lisa Singh 1 day ago Two dates, one wound: What Girmit Day means for Fiji’s future For descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Fiji, 14 May carries two histories that are still being reconciled.
Hakiki Sandhika Raja 1 day ago Indonesia’s Nemesis is the AI watchdog that cries wolf Indonesia’s citizen-built AI procurement tracker is exposing waste but generating its own accountability problems.
Larelle Bossi 2 days ago Ocean finance and the risk of bluewashing in the Pacific Without governance grounded in regional values, blue finance risks repackaging extractive development as sustainability.