Yearly Archives: 2016

The Whau Pacific Festival is a four-day event celebrating Pacific culture and art. Held in the west Auckland suburb of Avondale this year, workshops included...

Trade Minister Richard Maru said in Parliament that he had summoned the Fiji High Commissioner on Monday and would write to Fiji’s government to...

Outcomes of a regional Pacific meeting addressing violence against women and girls concluded with strategic steps and an urgent work plan to address the...

Earlier this year West Papuan and Pacific leaders gathered together in the British parliament to call for an Internationally Supervised Vote to determine the future...

By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Hides gas landowners from PDL 1 and 7 have signed a memorandum of understanding with...

Young children are among the hundreds that are kept in the Australian detention centre for asylum seekers on Manus Island where there have been persistent...

The Fiji government has announced that it will retain its current national flag, after more than year of debating about whether its colonial symbols...

OPINION: By Murray Horton The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) are being handed more powers by the New Zealand...

By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea government representatives have met with landowner leaders of Hides PLD1 and PLD7 natural gas field...

Eleven former Vanuatu MPs and one lawyer have been found guilty of conspiracy in a bribery case in which they were originally sentenced to...

By Peter Kinjap in Port Moresby The University of Papua New Guinea has served a contempt charge against the Students Representative Council lawyer Laken Lepatu...

The Fiji 7s team's Olympic win not only made sporting history for Fiji but it was also the first time an Olympic gold had...

By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority in Port Moresby is risking closure due to a constant...

Australia must consider human rights, including the military crackdowns on the West Papuan provinces, when pursuing closer ties with Indonesia, says the Melbourne newspaper...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila The Archbishop of the Province of Melanesia, George Teteli, with other Anglican Archbishops and Bishops of Hawaii, and in...

By Gareth Tredway The Indonesian government’s mining ministry is said to have recommended the granting of a new short-term export permit to Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg mine...

By Jimmy Domingo in Manila Human rights activists in the Philippines have launched a movement to demand the immediate end of summary executions of suspected...

In memory of Joan Macdonald, 1932 - 2016 Joan Macdonald, nearly 84, a tireless and inspirational New Zealand campaigner for peace, human rights and social...

Trailer for the award-winning documentary The Road To Home about Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize nominated West Papuan independence leader, in his ongoing...

Landowners in the PNG LNG project of Hela province expressing their dissatisfaction to a government delegation this week in Hides. Video: EMTV News By Peter...

By Nadia Marai in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has threatened to stop trading with Fiji because of "unnecessary" trade restrictions on PNG products. Trade, Commerce...

Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint reports on the reaction to the historic Fiji win. By Avinesh Gopal in Suva The stunning gold medal win by the Fiji...