Monthly Archives: September 2017

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk With New Zealand’s 2017 general election just two weeks away on September 23, Pacific Media Watch looks into the policies and...

By  Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta Almost 13 years to the day since human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was poisoned with arsenic aboard a...

By Elizabeth Ah-Hi in Apia The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, has promised protesters that their voice on West Papua...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to meet with his island counterparts this week in Apia, Samoa, Pacific civil society...

ANALYSIS: By Professor Jane Kelsey It is now certain that any decisions on the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the US will...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Leaders from across the Pacific are meeting in Apia, Samoa, this week to discuss the future of the region’s oceans. Under the...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News Tongan interim Prime Minister Ê»Akilisi Pƍhiva says he suspected his rejection of a proposal by the Deputy Prime...
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Al Jazeera's People & Power programme investigates disturbing claims that New Zealand’s rivers and lakes are among the most polluted in the developed world....

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk One of Cambodia's last remaining independent newspapers has announced it is closing today after 24 years, the latest in a series...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pƍhiva has fired Deputy Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni and Finance Minister Tēvita Lavemaau, says a...

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura The Indonesian government's decision to allow one of the world's largest copper and gold mines to operate in Papua province...
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Flashback: An EMTV News video report on the Bougainville peace. By Fabian Hakalits in Arawa It has been 16 years this week since the signing of...
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A trailer for the controversial Anas investigation into corruption by Ghana's judiciary. Video: AnanseGH TV BOOKS: By David Robie The Ghanaian investigative journalist summed up the...