Yearly Archives: 2017

OPINION: By Tess Newton Cain in Port Vila There have been a couple of stories recently in Vanuatu about kava exports and one of the...

By Glenda Willie in Port Vila Vanuatu kava farmers on Espiritu Santo have expressed great fear of losing their production businesses in the wake of...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila In response to last weekend’s reports of complaints about allegedly "tainted" kava, Vanuatu-based exporter Peter Colmar has provided clear...

The Tongan government has announced reassignment of ministerial posts to two of its ministries. Penisimani Fifita has been moved from the Ministry of Internal Affairs...

By Laura Williams Exploring what it’s like to look for love as a 40-something-year-old woman, a grandfather recovering from a stroke, a Pacific grandmother's recollections,...

ANALYSIS: By Steve Sawyer Looking back at 2016, it’s easier to come up with a list of bad things that happened than good: Brexit,...

By Kerrie Armstrong An independent audit has slammed the Australian Department of Immigration's running of the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres, saying department officials...

ANALYSIS: By Frank Brennan Without any media fanfare, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop published a statement on 9 January 2017 announcing that Australia and Timor-Leste...

China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented rate. As of July 2016,...

This undercover footage by Greenpeace shows bulldozers destroying Indonesian rainforest. HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world, is accused of lending millions...

Indonesia and Japan have agreed to step up maritime security and start discussions on a major railway project to link Jakarta and Surabaya in...

Al Jazeera's Jamela Alingogan reports from Manila on a game-changing president marking six months in office. Video: AJ YouTube Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said...

Land of the Morning Star ... the 2004 documentary on West Papua made by Mark Worth. From Pacific Media Watch / Australians for a Free...

War Reporters, a short video launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last year to honour journalists facing "danger zones". Its release coincided with the...

ANALYSIS: By Professor Biman Prasad It has been interesting to read about Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's intentions on COP23 (Conference of Parties 23) in...

By Ryan Dagur in Jakarta Muslim activists have joined growing calls for a hardline Muslim cleric to be charged with blasphemy for insulting Christianity. Rizieq...

By Ryan Dagur and Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta There is rising concern in majority Muslim Indonesia that the treatment being meted out to ethnic...

By Len Garae in Port Vila The writing is on the wall for the fate of Peter Colmar’s kava exporting company, Sarami Plantation, now that...

Malcolm Evans is one of New Zealand's best political cartoonists who was dumped from his New Zealand Herald contract for daring to suggest Israel...

Surveillance footage of the accused guman Esteban Santiago opening fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida last Friday. Video: TMZ website ANALYSIS: By David Robie Just...

There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says. Middleton, who has worked for the New Zealand Herald, the...

By Catherine Graue of Pacific Beat As hundreds of police and soldiers begin their work in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province this week, there have...