Monthly Archives: May 2017

Pacific Media Watch The end of French Polynesia's airport firefighters strike has been held up in Tahiti amid a dispute between two unions, Radio New...

By Troy Taule in Port Moresby More than 20 people in a village in Papua New Guinea's Central Province have died within the space of...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt speaks with host of Radio 95bFM's The Wire Amanda Jane Robinson about a study on...

Translated by Khairiah A. Rahman The Facebook account of Afi Nihaya Faradisa, an Indonesian high school student from the village of Banyuwangi in eastern Java...

Charmaine Poriambep of TVWan News reports on the timely new PNG code of ethics. Pacific Media Watch News Desk Journalists, reporters and media practitioners in Papua...

One of the PCF interns coming to New Zealand, Shivika Mala of the University of the South Pacific, talks to the Pacific Media Centre...

By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta Indonesians have called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to immediately repeal Article 156a on religious blasphemy of the Criminal...

SPECIAL REPORT: Laura Lyons has been battling the New South Wales and Australian government to have her three children returned to her since they...

The Indonesian government needs to change the policy of development which makes Papuan community a subject, says a non-government organisation that specialises in West...

By Fadi In Batam, Ruiau Islands, Indonesia A Chinese-made cannon has malfunctioned and fired off shots randomly during military exercises in Indonesia's Tanjung Datuk, Natuna,...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliates Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the South East...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk A group of United States security contractors engaged by Papua New Guinea's police chief to give firearms training have been...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk Gold and copper mining firm PT Freeport has reportedly laid off 840 employees for going on strike in Timika in...

Al Jazeera's report on the attack on the National Radio Television of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad. The Committee to Protect Journalists has strongly condemned the...

EMTV's head of news Neville Choi reports on the assault on the television crew -- see item at 4min01sec. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Watch...

By Kendall Hutt Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific. The study, focusing on journalism’s role...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk An abrupt increase in Fiji's national minimum wage for workers in the informal sectors could have an adverse impact on...

After almost 14 years, the Solomon Islands police force has been rearmed. At a ceremony in Honiara last week the police force launched its limited...

ANALYSIS: By Pat Walsh The recent sentencing of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Chinese-Indonesian Governor of Jakarta, to two years in jail for blasphemy...

ANALYSIS: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has entered the third week of the eight-week election campaign before polling commences next...

Unite Union's Mike Treen critiques the injustices of the New Zealand migrant policies and their fraud on foreign students, especially Asian. Skykiwi journalist Leon...

By Litia Cava in Suva Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former military coup maker Sitiveni Rabuka says the rioting and assault on some Fijians...