Monthly Archives: June 2017

Pacific Media Centre News Desk Polling in Papua New Guinea’s 2017 national election begins this weekend. On Saturday, voters will take to the polling booths after...

Silencing Al Jazeera was a high priority when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen moved to isolate Qatar earlier this month,...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk PNGi is set to revolutionise governance in Papua New Guinea by cracking open the secrets of the rich and powerful...

By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...

By Delly Waigeno in Port Moresby Four naturalised citizens and 138 West Papuans have become citizens of Papua New Guinea. Acting Chief Migration Officer Solomon Kantha...

Oro Governor Gary Juffa blasts PNG government over the deportation of NZ Catholic missionary Douglas Tennent. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Watch News Desk Oro Governor...

Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They demonstrated in Arawa in central...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby More than 800 election monitors will be deployed nationwide to observe and make independent reports on Papua New Guinea’s...

Panguna women landowner protesters -- mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville -- have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk So-called "fake news" and the damage it can do has featured much in the media in recent months. Radio NZ's Mediawatch...

OBITUARY: Pacific Media Watch News Desk Vanuatu's President Baldwin Jacobson Lonsdale has died at Vila Central Hospital early today after being rushed to hospital last...

Speaking about the controversial Manus Asylum Centre saga, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says the deal was signed and agreed to for the development of...

Hele Ikimotu talks to Pasifika youth about whether they are voting in upcoming general elections in a vox pops video. By Hele Ikimotu in Auckland The...

Aerial shot from a drone of Banggolo and Bubonga barangays in Marawi City taken on 8 June 2017 shows the destruction and fire from...

By Nasik Swami in Suva Current national contributions by countries to the Paris Agreement on climate change are not enough to save the Pacific, says...

Hele Ikimotu checks out Auckland responses to climate change in a vox pops video. By Hele Ikimotu in Auckland Pasifika youth should be more engaged with...

ANALYSIS: By Jess Hopkinson and Holly Driscoll Social media is a new phenomenon which enables easy and instant access to voters. Papua New Guinea’s freedom...

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill campaigns for his People's National Congress (PNC) candidates contesting in the 2017 National Elections in the Highlands this week. Video:...

ANALYSIS: By Joey Tau in Suva Vanuatu is the latest Melanesian state to express reservations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) agreement...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland As international talks at the United Nations on the ban of nuclear weapons draw closer, New Zealand nuclear free and...

Malcolm Evans reflects on the price of the half of the century of Israeli occupation Palestinian territory and illegal settlements in defiance of the...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk Women in Central Bougainville and landowners of the Panguna copper mine site are opposing the reopening of the mine. A delegation...