Monthly Archives: March 2017
On the oil protest front line: ‘It’s their future they’re fighting for’
By Kendall Hutt
Young environmentalists were on the front lines of the fight against oil and gas exploration in New Zealand today with the People's...
Asia Pacific Report tribute to Teresia Teaiwa – thanks to Tagata Pasifika
Dr Teresia Teaiwa featured in a Tagata Pasifika video when winning the Manukau Institute of Technology Pacific Education Award prize at the SunPix Pacific...
NZ climate change protesters blockade oil conference in Taranaki
Climate change protesters blockaded the Petroleum Summit in the New Zealand city of New Plymouth today where the government was expected to announce the...
Authors of new book call for full inquiry into SAS ‘betrayal’ claim
Radio NZ video news feed of the Hager and Stephenson media conference last night. YouTube
Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager and war correspondent Jon...
CAFCA calls on NZ to ‘pull the plug’ on American Empire
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) says it is time for New Zealand to pull the plug and to finish the business...
Former guerrillas dominate Timor-Leste’s presidential election
People in Timor-Leste went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president. Their choice was between eight candidates with former guerrilla fighter Francisco...
PMC journalists gear up for new ‘Bearing Witness’ climate challenge
The Pacific Media Centre's popular “Bearing Witness” climate change project enters its second year next month.
As part of a collaborative venture between Auckland University...
Two French journalists deported from Papua over alleged visa violations
By Nethy Dharma Somba in Jayapura
Indonesia's Tembagapura Immigration Office has banned two French journalists, Jean Frank Pierre, 45, and Basille Marie Longhamp, 42, from...
Supreme Court gives green light to PNG to deport 166 non-refugees
PNG's National Planning Minister Charles Abel has called on the Australian government to work with Papua New Guinea to facilitate the closing of the...
Not enough funds for HIV/AIDS advocacy, says PNG cardinal
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
Lack of funds hampers addressing issues faced by the increasing number of people living with HIV in Papua New...
Predators of press freedom use fake news as a censorship tool, says RSF
The struggle to expose the real truth ... human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on the silencing of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, jailed for...
‘Polynesian soul’ – schools, performers and diversity on show at Polyfest
Six stages, four days, 214 groups from more than 60 schools, 10,000 performers and up to 40,000 spectators ... The four-day festival of Māori,...
Timber firm accused over Indonesian threat to last orangutan strongholds
By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...
Kava industry bounces back after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Kava export returns in 2015 after Tropical Cyclone Pam devastated parts of Vanuatu as it trekked through the country...
Philippines tries to reverse trend in new HIV detections
By Father Casibjorn Quia, Roy Abrahmn Narra and Jerome Villanueva in Manila
The year 2016 was a landmark year for the Philippines with HIV (human...
Cardinal Ribat calls on PNG churches to ‘work together’ over HIV
EMTV News reports on the HIV Summit in Port Moresby and other Papua New Guinean news.
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
The first HIV Summit...
Author praised for opening readers’ eyes to West Papua’s repression
By Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt
Bookstore owners, writers, authors, family, friends and a group hopeful of West Papuan independence squeezed into the...
Attack on FBC reporter outside court stirs Fiji media protests
By Kelly Vacala in Suva
The safety of media personnel has come under the spotlight again after an attack on a Fiji Broadcasting Corporation television...
Accuracy the key in climate change reporting, student journos told
By Abishek Chand in Suva
Student journalists of the University of the South Pacific have been reminded about the threat of climate change and the...
‘Heavy handed’ NZ clamps down on Tokelau spending
By Mackenzie Smith
As Tokelau’s ninth government takes shape, the new leader is raising concerns over New Zealand’s treatment of its last remaining Pacific territory.
Ulu-o-Tokelau...
Iranian refugee Sawari’s PNG trial deferred to end of month
EMTV News report of the court hearing in Port Moresby yesterday.
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
The trial against Iranian refugee Loghman Sawari, who fled...
Female Melanesian tattooists to make their mark in Spain
By Hele Ikimotu
A threatened tradition will get fresh focus when a female Melanesian tattoo collective takes up a Spanish invitation.
The group, Mage’au: Melanesian Marks,...