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Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free West Papua

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July 22, 2017

Analysis

In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick

Human Rights

Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste

Climate

€4.5m plan to build El Niño resilience in FSM, Marshall Islands and Palau

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Global

Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free...

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July 22, 2017

ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...

In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick

July 20, 2017

Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste

July 20, 2017

€4.5m plan to build El Niño resilience in FSM, Marshall Islands...

July 20, 2017

NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees

July 19, 2017

Indonesian woman in Saudi Arabia unpaid for 22 years – wins...

July 19, 2017

CLIMATE CHANGE

Human Rights

Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste

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July 20, 2017

By Konradus Epa in Atambua, Indonesia Rostiana Bareto experienced tough living conditions as a refugee when she and her family settled in Atambua, western Timor,...

Climate

€4.5m plan to build El Niño resilience in FSM, Marshall Islands...

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July 20, 2017

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The European Union and the Pacific Community have signed an agreement to build resilience to future El Niño-related droughts in the...

The world climate leaders’ summit you didn’t hear about

July 16, 2017

Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

July 16, 2017

USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story

July 14, 2017

Strip medals from French Rainbow Warrior saboteurs, says Star-Times

July 9, 2017

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

Analysis

In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick

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July 20, 2017

ANALYSIS: By Dr Michael Leach in Dili Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday. In a...

The world climate leaders’ summit you didn’t hear about

July 16, 2017

Autocracy strikes back: Media freedom under siege in Arabia

July 11, 2017

Gary Juffa: Why I was not on the PNG electoral roll...

July 10, 2017

Gary Juffa: Why these PNG elections are taking us towards dictatorship

July 2, 2017

Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear...

June 28, 2017

MULTIMEDIA

Elections

O’Neill accepts outcome in spite of Morobe election losses to Pangu

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July 19, 2017

EMTV News interview with PNC leader Peter O'Neill after the Morobe defeats. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Despite losing four People's National Congress (PNC)...

Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships

July 14, 2017

‘Don’t run to courts’ over every PNG electoral row, judge says...

July 14, 2017

Strip medals from French Rainbow Warrior saboteurs, says Star-Times

July 9, 2017

Timor, Indonesia vote for NZ-backed ‘gift for future’ nuclear-free ban

July 8, 2017

Green MP Delahunty calls for NZ action, media focus on West...

July 6, 2017

HUMAN RIGHTS

Global

Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free...

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July 22, 2017

ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...

Analysis

In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick

PMC Editor -

July 20, 2017

ANALYSIS: By Dr Michael Leach in Dili Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday. In a...

Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste

July 20, 2017

NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees

July 19, 2017

Indonesian woman in Saudi Arabia unpaid for 22 years – wins...

July 19, 2017

PNG’s ruling party has 300,000 ‘ghost voters’ in election, claims analysis

July 18, 2017

INSTITUTIONS

Global

Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free...

PMC Editor -

July 22, 2017

ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...

Analysis

In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick

PMC Editor -

July 20, 2017

ANALYSIS: By Dr Michael Leach in Dili Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday. In a...

NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees

July 19, 2017

O’Neill accepts outcome in spite of Morobe election losses to Pangu

July 19, 2017

PNG’s ruling party has 300,000 ‘ghost voters’ in election, claims analysis

July 18, 2017

UPNG students make ballot voice heard in spite of challenge over...

July 17, 2017

MEDIA

Global

Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free...

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July 22, 2017

ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...

Australia

NZ protesters bring ‘human face’ to suffering of Manus, Nauru refugees

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July 19, 2017

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Forty minutes of solidarity marked New Zealand’s stand with refugees imprisoned in Australia’s offshore detention centres across the Pacific today. More...

Investigative journalism – from the NZ wars to Pike River

July 19, 2017

Pacific exchange student journalists wrap-up internships

July 14, 2017

95bFM, VICE media team up to offer ‘authentic, credible’ NZ news...

July 13, 2017

Autocracy strikes back: Media freedom under siege in Arabia

July 11, 2017

SPORTS

Pacific Report

One year after vowing support for Games, Pohiva calls for another...

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June 8, 2017

By Philip Cass in Auckland It is just under a year since the Tongan government assured the Pacific Games Council that it was fully committed...

Sports

Fiji awaits gold medal team to start national celebrations

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August 16, 2016

The Fiji 7s team's Olympic win not only made sporting history for Fiji but it was also the first time an Olympic gold had...

Fiji gold in Olympic rugby sevens ‘mighty success’ for whole Pacific

August 12, 2016

Kiribati to compete in two events at the Rio 2016 Olympics

August 2, 2016

Fijian Virimi Vakatawa in France 7s squads for Rio 2016

July 18, 2016

Samoan women score a try for gender empowerment

March 23, 2016

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Development

First report tracking Samoan youth unemployment to help policy

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June 28, 2017

By Brandon Ulfsby in Apia A youth employment survey report in Samoa is seeking to inform government policy decisions after its findings take a closer...

Business

‘Despicable’ Youi wins Roger Award for ‘worst transnational’ in NZ

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April 7, 2017

The insurance company Youi, headquartered in South Africa and prominent in Australia, has been awarded the annual Roger Award for the “worst transnational corporation...

Environmental damage, social conflicts overshadow Indonesia’s palm oil future

March 27, 2017

PNG seabed mining an environment experiment based on ‘false hope’, say...

December 14, 2016

NCDs in the Pacific a ‘man-made crisis’, says FAO

November 1, 2016

Top journo students honoured at USP’s award night

October 26, 2016

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UPNG students make ballot voice heard in spite of challenge over...

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Wansolwara student journalist among 10 chosen for COP23 Pacific team

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‘Don’t run to courts’ over every PNG electoral row, judge says...

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China plans ‘greener, cleaner’ industry but faces complex challenges

Analysis

Beijing’s ‘invisible hand’ felt as Hong Kong press freedom declines

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ARTS & PERFORMANCE

Contemporary Pacific dance festival showcase ‘first of its kind’

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June 8, 2017

By Brandon Ulfsby in Auckland Contemporary dance is set to take centre stage at next week's Pacific Dance Festival. The two week-long festival organised by Pacific...

An Indonesian oasis of progressive creativity emerges in culture city

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May 12, 2017

Dr Max Lane, pictured here with Faiza Mardzoeki, talks about his project to establish a community and activist library for the student city of...

Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing

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March 26, 2017

By Kendall Hutt A small, enthusiastic crowd gathered among the shelves of one of Auckland’s libraries earlier this week to listen to a lively and...

Female Melanesian tattooists to make their mark in Spain

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March 14, 2017

By Hele Ikimotu A threatened tradition will get fresh focus when a female Melanesian tattoo collective takes up a Spanish invitation. The group, Mage’au: Melanesian Marks,...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bearing Witness

USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story

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July 14, 2017

The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...

Cook Islands

Cook Islands plays role in Pacific research mapping media culture

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July 4, 2017

By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua, Rarotonga The Cook Islands is part of a 12-nation research project to comprehensively map Pacific Islands journalism culture at a...