Monthly Archives: May 2016
Pacific Climate Change Centre step closer – building starts next June
The Pacific Islands are a step closer to having their very own Pacific Climate Change Centre to be hosted at the Secretariat of the...
UPNG suspends semester studies to take academic ‘breather’
By Cleopatra Kolta in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea Council has announced the suspension of the rest of semester 1, which is...
Timor-Leste optimistic on border talks despite slow progress
By Tama Salim in Dili and Anggi M. Lubis in Jakarta
Timor-Leste remains upbeat about negotiations on outstanding border issues with Indonesia, as the two...
RSF condemns Australian police response over NBN media leaks
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Australian authorities to halt their investigation of media outlets over leaks about overspending by the government-owned...
Unitech student leader’s reply to PM: ‘We’re talking about morality’
By Carmella Gware in Lae
A student leader at Papua New Guinea's University of Technology in Lae has responded to Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's letter...
‘If young people act over climate change, our leaders will listen’
A Pacific Media Centre report on a "united Pacific voice" on climate change at the Pacific Development Forum in Suva last September that got...
NZ delegation welcomed in Guam for Pacific Festival opening
A Te Karere report on the opening of the Pacific Festival of Arts.
The regionally anticipated Festival of Pacific Arts has finally kicked off this...
What PM O’Neill told the protesting PNG students – in full
This is the 10-page letter from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill sent yesterday to the University of Papua New Guinea and the PNG University of...
‘I will not resign,’ O’Neill tells PNG students in 10-page letter
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has replied to the petitions from the student representative councils of both the University of PNG and...
Unitech students continue ‘indefinite’ boycott as PM’s reply falls short
Prime Minister Peter O'Neil has responded in letters to the University of Papua New Guinea and University of Technology student presidents following their petitions...
Repressive Indonesian acts against academic freedom hit Bandung
In the absence of the Indonesian state's assurance for freedom of expression, the nation has continuously witnessed repressive acts against academic freedom within university...
‘Disappointed’ UPNG students to continue class boycott
By Carmella Gware in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea students will continue their boycott of classes over the next week, a member...
Sunday profile: Pala Molisa – a radical accountant’s eye on social justice
Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime Vanua'aku Pati cabinet minister Sela Molisa and civil...
‘We won’t back down,’ warn UPNG students over PM
University of Papua New Guinea students have warned that they will not back down from their campaign to defend the constitution until the prime...
Court dismisses PNG police chief’s bid to block judicial review
An appeal by Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner Gari Baki against a judicial review on the suspension of Thomas Eluh and the termination of...
O’Neill replies to PNG university student petitions but seeks ‘advice’
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has responded to petitions presented to him by students at the two major universities...
First The Suffragettes – and now Vanuatu’s first reserved women MP seats?
The trailer for The Suffragettes movie.
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Justice Minister Ronald Warsal has announced that earlier this week the Council of...
Veronica Koman: Papua – the pricking of Indonesia’s national conscience
OPINION: By Veronica Koman
When outsiders think of Papua, it may be to puzzle over why protests there seem never-ending. They may assume the main...
Court rejects students’ bid to have police legally removed from UPNG
By Vasinatta Yama and Serah Aupong in Port Moresby
An urgent application by the University of Papua New Guinea's Student Representative Council (SRC) president Kenneth...
Images: Citizen journo’s diary of a student protest in PNG
For three weeks, more than 5000 students at the national University of Papua New Guinea have had a stand-off with the government of Prime...
Business as usual in PNG capital in spite of civil society strike call
PNG Tonight presenter John Eggins says Papua New Guinea went from a state of high anxiety after civil society groups called for a strike...
UPNG students give ‘patriotic’ ultimatum to PM O’Neill
By Carmella Gware in Port Moresby
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea have given Prime Minister Peter O'Neill 24-hours to respond "favourably" to...