Monthly Archives: March 2016

Women have been facing health and security issues since last month’s disaster, reports Ami Dhabuwala of Asia-Pacific Journalism. While the world was busy celebrating Women’s...

Asia Pacific Report photographer Del Abcede captures some colourful and poignant moments at today's SkyCity climate change protest against the New Zealand Petroleum Conference.

Most news media took pictures of the climate change "civil disobedience" protest today at vantage points outside the SkyCity Auckland Convention Centre. But Asia Pacific...

"I hear the voice of my granddaughter saying climate action now," sing protesters at the main entrance to the SkyCity convention centre. Video: Del...

Indonesian police recently banned the Turn Left Festival in Jakarta. The Jakarta Post’s Margareth S. Aritonang and Pandaya analyse the incident, which has raised...

More than 200 protesters converged on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn today, blockading its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration...

Democracy has died and been reborn several times in different countries in the region, writes Mong Palatino. On March 2, 1962, General Ne Win led...

LIVE NEWSFEED: Peaceful civil disobedience in Auckland, March 21 - Greenpeace Hundreds of climate change protesters were today blockading entrance to the oil industry conference...

By Jen Maman In April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a tiny island country part of Micronesia, filed groundbreaking lawsuits to the International...

Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson has accepted the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award at the state of Victoria's Quills, using her speech to...

By Susan Epskamp ​The Veiqia Project Exhibition is now open at Auckland University of Technology’s St Paul St Gallery Three as a result of the...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila Julian Ligo recently published an online piece purporting to tell the "real" story down at the wharf, in which...

By Melanie Cooper  Auckland University of Technology culinary graduates will be working side-by-side with some of New Zealand’s top chefs this weekend to help raise...

By Thompson Marango in Port Vila Vanuatu police have appealed to the public to remain calm and have warned drivers and owners of public transport...

By TJ Aumua of Pacific Media Watch A research report about Pacific media outlets in New Zealand was launched today at Auckland University of Technology...

By TJ Aumua The kidnapping and attack on a local Vanuatu female tourism manager, Florence Lengkon, has stirred strong criticism of violence against women in...

By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila Opposition Leader Ishmael Kalsakau has alleged that the inclusion in the Vanuatu government’s "100-day plan" to review the health...

350.org founder Bill McKibben's message to New Zealand. Video: Greenpeace NZ Environmentalist Bill McKibben today appealed to New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila A brave local woman has come forward with a shocking story of out-of-control violence in Vanuatu. Bus and taxi drivers...

By Vannessa Hearman and Jose da Costa In 1995, 18 East Timorese youths sailed illegally to Australia in a small fishing boat. After five nights...

The ABC Four Corners news team in Malaysia have been told they will not be charged over an incident with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib...

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) has been given observer status in the board of the UN Green Climate Fund (GCF), Secretary-General Dame Meg...