Monthly Archives: August 2017
NZ’s Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into Pacific community’, says panel
Tagata Pasifika's first election talanoa ... Labour must engage Pacific voters. Video: Tagata Pasifika
Tagata Pasifika has kicked off its election talanoa series with a...
Korea, Iran in with a shot to challenge Australia, NZ for basketball crown
Korean basketballers too hot, slick and tough ... Philippines beaten. Video: FIBA Asia Cup
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in Adelaide
Two former Asian champions earned the...
Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown
Australia and New Zealand face-off against Asia-Pacific counterparts ... basketball tournament kicks off. Video: FIBA Asia Cup
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in Adelaide
Basketball countries in...
Plans to end violence, improve human rights in West Papua ‘unravelling’
ANALYSIS: By Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge in Jakarta
Reports about the shooting of an indigenous Papuan by police officers early this month in Deiyai district,...
PM O’Neill wins stay order preventing arrest
Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has successfully obtained a stay order in the Supreme Court preventing his arrest.
This comes pending a review...
NZ government rejects calls for ‘public, unequivocal’ stand for West Papua
Pacific Media Watch reports
New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee has dismissed a call for the government to make a stand and address...
Stay order on PM O’Neill’s arrest dismissed by court
By Nellie Setepano in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Court has dismissed stay orders preventing the arrest of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
This means police...
‘A price they never should’ve paid’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims remembered
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The estimated 226,000 people who lost their lives in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered in...
‘They get up in the morning, sing their dreams’ – PNG doco explores shaman...
New Zealand filmmaker Paul Wolffram's What Lies That Way... "by and about magic" of Papua New Guinea. Video: Paul Wolffram.
Pacific Media Watch reports
Sorcery and...
US, Chinese companies linked to PNG land theft, deforestation, says report
Landowner-turned activist Paul Pavol talks about the widespread land theft and deforestation occurring in Papua New Guinea at the hands of foreign companies. Video:...
Deported NZ missionary to push for reform on return to PNG
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Deported New Zealand missionary Douglas Tennent will hopefully be returning to Papua New Guinea in the next week.
This comes after...
O’Neill re-elected PNG prime minister following ‘chaotic’ day in parliament
Peter O'Neill has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea amid a chaotic day inside parliament.
The tenth sitting of parliament suffered a...