Yearly Archives: 2016

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila A Vanuatu government team left for Port Moresby today to conduct an on-the-ground assessment of the crisis at...

By Philip Kepson in Wabag The Engan students at the University of Goroka have called on the Papua New Guinea government to investigate what was...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1000 of its members have were detained by Indonesian police during...

An open letter by Benny Wenda, a West Papuan independence leader and spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP): Dear everyone, Today thousands...

With media freedoms on the decline in Hong Kong, amid growing fears of "mainlandisation", is the press still performing its function as a watchdog?...

By Anthony Kaybing in Buka, Bougainville The shooting of university students by the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary in Port Moresby last week has been...

The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...

Vice-chancellor Derek McCormack of Auckland University of Technology has described the weekend massacre in Orlando, Florida, as "profoundly shocking" and he has extended the...

Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila The Vanuatu Ambassador to Brussels, Roy Mickey Joy, says the Melanesian Spearhead Group  is too politicised, has lost its...

"Technology is essential for providing Pacific youth with better opportunities for their future." This was a key message at the Pacific Wave "Prosperous Futures through...

By Mong Palatino in Manila Indonesia’s Golkar party wants former strongman General Suharto to be declared a national hero. In the Philippines, President-elect Rodrigo Duterte...

By Jemima Garrett of ABC Pacific Beat A feasibility study for the first large-scale copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea's environmentally-sensitive Sepik River...

Lifting of the mining moratorium on Bougainville has hoodwinked the majority of people on Bougainville, says the Bougainville Freedom Movement. In March 2016, the Autonomous...

As Television New Zealand's news boss calls for the ban on Barbara Dreaver entering Fiji to be lifted, the Pacific correspondent has responded to...

By Rocky Issou and NauFM News The Unitech administration in Papua New Guinea's second city of Lae has condemned last week's shooting by police of...

The EMTV News report yesterday about the Mt Hagen high school arrests following social media images of the police opening fire on students at...

Graphic student footage of police firing on protesters on Wednesday at the University of Papua New Guinea shows sustained gunfire and tear gas grenades...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is appalled by a police attack on a woman journalist during a student demonstration that was dispersed violently...

Student journalists at the University of the South Pacific have condemned the Papua New Guinea police for the "highly reckless" open firing into a...

Three hundred and fifty Indonesian soldiers from West Kalimantan’s Tanjungpura Military Command have been assigned to keep peace along the border between Indonesia and...

The bright blue stars known as the Seven Sisters are known for marking the beginning of Matariki - or the Māori New Year. In the...