Tag: Blogging

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a proposed cyber-security law in Myanmar that would organise online censorship and force social media...

OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae Yesterday in Papua New Guinea, our Port Moresby-Madang flight got cancelled. Minutes earlier, as we sat in the departure...

ANALYSIS: By Crosbie Walsh Have you ever noticed, when percentages are used in the print media in reporting political polls, that they almost never add...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Chinese authorities should immediately release Australian writer Yang Hengjun and drop all charges against him, says the New York-based Committee to...

By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer It’s all happening in Samoa today. For such a small country, there really is no dull moment. With...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Samoan anti-government blogger Malele Paulo has been arrested, reports RNZ Pacific. Malele, who uses the pseudonym "King Faipopo", was held in police...

Many Samoans are angry over a threat by the prime minister earlier this year to ban the social media platform Facebook amid growing pressure...

By Sylvester Gawi in Singapore I hope you are reading this with ease and a positive mindset to help change the course of this beautiful...

By Sylvester Gawi in Lae The greatest challenge facing journalism in Papua New Guinea today is that there is no freedom of the press. Journalists...

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...

By Josie Butler This week marks the beginning of the New Zealand government’s national roadshow on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a roadshow that...

From Pacific Media Watch By Bill Goodwin in London New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager was working in Auckland when the police raided his Wellington home. His...