Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Pacific Islands are a step closer to having their very own Pacific Climate Change Centre to be hosted at the Secretariat of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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A Pacific Media Centre report on a "united Pacific voice" on climate change at the Pacific Development Forum in Suva last September that got...
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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...

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...

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...
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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...

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...

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...

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...

University of Papua New Guinea students have warned that they will not back down from their campaign to defend the constitution until the prime...
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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...

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...
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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...

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...

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...

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...
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PNG Tonight presenter John Eggins says Papua New Guinea went from a state of high anxiety after civil society groups called for a strike...

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...