Yearly Archives: 2016

From SBS News Scores of asylum-seeker families, including babies born in Australia, face the prospect of deportation to Nauru after a High Court ruling, reports...

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...

From United Nations Special correspondent in Geneva United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas has called on governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership without...

From ETAN By Wilda Asmarini In Jakarta Freeport McMoRan Inc has asked Indonesia to reduce a US$530 million smelter bond the local unit of the US...

From SciDev.Net By Dyna Rochmyaningsih in Jakarta Scientists in South-East Asia and the United Kingdom’s Met Office have teamed up to develop a model that predicts...

From PNG Loop By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby The court martial sitting in Papua New Guinea against 11 alleged mutineers of the PNG Defence Force...

New Zealand's trojan horse eroding sovereignty.

By Michael Neilson in Jakarta The US$35 (A$49) visa fee Australian tourists must pay before entering Indonesia looks set to be finally scrapped after years...

From ETAN/The Straits Times By Jonathan Pearlman in Perth Australia has adopted some of the world's toughest policies against refugees in recent years and will not...

From ETAN By Bernadette Christina Munthe and Fergus Jensen Freeport McMoRan Inc has lost its right to export copper concentrate, valued at more than $1 billion,...

Dr Biman Prasad, leader of Fiji's Opposition National Federation Party, suspended for 30 days yesterday by the Fijian Elections Office, assesses the country's "deeply...

Report from Fiji Village By Vijay Narayan in Suva Fiji's opposition National Federation Party has been suspended for 30 days with immediate effect for contravening the...

Report from the International Peace Bureau By Colin Archer in Geneva The Oslo-based International Peace Bureau has nominated former Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum...

Report from Vanuatu Daily Post By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Port Vila and Luganville will be introduced to a complete tsunami warning system by the...

PlanetFM Protests against the TPPA protests, the climate change movement post-Paris 2015, and the run up to Waitangi day ... Unite Union's Joe Carolan talks to...

PNG Today/PNG TV Up to 35 abused women go to the Boroko Family and Sexual Violence Unit a day in Papua New Guinea's capital Port...

From Vanuatu Daily Post By Thompson Marango in Port Vila Attempts to arrest former Prime Minister Joe Natuman and former Acting Police Commissioner Aru Maralau for...

Transparency International NZ New Zealand has fallen to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index - the second consecutive drop in a survey...

Report from IFEX By Gayathry Venkiteswaran Journalists have been killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in separate incidents that took place in January...

Pacific Media Centre By Kai Ping Lew When Alistar Kata first asked if I would take part in this mini doco, The PMC Project, I was...

From Marshall Islands Journal By Giff Johnson in Majuro The ousting this week of President Casten Nemra, only two weeks into his term as president of...

From The Student Newspaper By Nghia Mai in Paris For so long the French national rugby union team was a team feared for its paradoxical combination...