Monthly Archives: July 2017

By Euan Black in Jakarta An Indonesian woman who worked in Saudi Arabia for 22 years has been paid for the first time after being...

BOOKS: By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch It's often been said there are just seven stories in all of literature. If a new collection of a 150...

EMTV News interview with PNC leader Peter O'Neill after the Morobe defeats. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Despite losing four People's National Congress (PNC)...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Statistical indicators suggest the Peter O’Neill government in Papua New Guinea has used its power of incumbency to "cook the books"...

By Elizah Palme in Port Moresby University of Papua New Guinea students have spoken through the ballot in spite of being provided 2000 ballot papers...

ANALYSIS: By Rod Campbell As much of the world watched the G20 last week, another leaders’ summit was on in Fiji. Fiji will chair the next...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Wansolwara second-year student journalist from the University of the South Pacific has been included among 10 Pacific journalists who have...

Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting signatures on an Avaaz petition...

The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...

Pacific Cooperation Foundation media interns Shivika Mala and Linda Filiai visit the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC By Kendall Hutt in Auckland  Student journalists from across...

Andrew Thomas reporting from Port Moresby on the issues at stake in this month's general election in Papua New Guinea. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand broadcaster 95bFM and youth media company VICE have today announced a new content partnership that will see the two...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Cyber "provocation" -- through social media -- is one of the biggest challenges being faced by the Indonesia's national police (Polri)...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Papua New Guinean court has banned political blogger Martyn Namorong from publishing "defamatory remarks" about Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato and...

By Father Casibjorn Guy Quiacao in Manila Imagine your Catholic parish priest rushing or abruptly ending a mass because his wife or his child met...

BACKGROUNDER: By Jerome P. Villanueva in Manila Uncertainty surrounds the effectiveness of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s ban on smoking. In an executive order titled E026, Duterte...

Masked gunmen 'hijacked' three ballot boxes in Western Highlands electorate of Mul-Baiyer. Video: EMTV News By Elizah Palme in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner...

ANALYSIS: By Dr Tarek Cherkaoui Diplomatic quarrels in the Arabian Peninsula have a long history, and small Gulf States, such as Qatar, align themselves with...

By Delly Waigeno in Port Moresby Another major road construction in Port Moresby, the Koura Way, is expected to be completed in September. It is being...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk West Papuan solidarity groups have protested over reported mass arrests of Papuan activists in the Nabire regency over the past week. Tabloid...

OPINION: By Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro and a candidate in the PNG general election Papua New Guinea's incoming government must put a list of...

Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata profiles the legacy of activism from the 1985 Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video:...