Yearly Archives: 2018
RSF open letter plea to Suu Kyi for Myanmar journalists’ freedom
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Five days after Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison on a trumped-up...
Pacific Climate Warriors rise for global day of ‘urgent action’
West Papua advocates talk about climate change and human rights. Video: Human Rights Watch
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Islanders across the Pacific and within Pacific...
Joanne Wallis: Australia needs to sing from same song sheet as Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Joanne Wallis
Australia’s new Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne probably envied New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s welcome at this week’s Pacific...
Pacific Forum backs ‘constructive engagement’ over West Papua
By Royson Willie in Port Vila
The Pacific Islands Forum has supported "constructive engagement" with Indonesia over "elections and human rights" at this week's leaders...
Malo e lelei! Happy Tongan Language Week
Miriam Asolupe, associate project manager at Auckland War Memorial Museum, gives the lowdown on what Auckland Museum has to offer for Tongan Language Week....
Climate change tops action at Forum in spite of Canberra’s resistance
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Climate change, labour mobility and West Papua are some of the issues that Vanuatu played a key part in discussions during...
Fiji stabilises, growth positive but still a big question over military role
As Fiji lurches towards stability and democracy, the military’s overwhelming presence is a reminder of what once was, and could happen again, as the...
NZ welcomes new Boe Pacific security plus climate declaration
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is describing the newly signed Boe Declaration as the most significant statement on regional security by...
Police arrest 45 at Jayapura rally plea for PIF to raise West Papua at...
Arrested Papuan self-determination protesters in Jayapura this week. Image: Tabloid Jubi
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
Indonesian police have arrested scores of protesters at a demonstration...
Pacific Island leaders tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent
ANALYSIS: The three-hour "detention" of television New Zealand Pacific affairs reporter Barbara Dreaver for "breaking protocols" over interviewing refugees on Nauru. But Josef Benedict...
Stick to our Forum visa rules, Nauru warns media via Twitter
By RNZ Pacific
The Nauru government has taken to Twitter to warn journalists they are not above the law as they cover the Pacific Islands...
Media freedom commentators condemn Nauru ‘gag’ actions
By RNZ Morning Report
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived today for the leader's retreat at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru where she...
Pacific student uncertainties over climate impact outweighs Fiji poll
Climate change issues seem to loom larger than the impending Fiji general election in the minds of University of the South Pacific students. Pacific...
Pacific Islands Forum masking Nauru human rights abuse, says advocate
By RNZ Pacific
A refugee advocate says behind the scenes of the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru human rights abuses are continuing.
Ian Rintoul from the...
TVNZ Pacific reporter released after being detained in Nauru
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver tells media of her three-hour detention by Nauru police after interviewing a refugee today. She was stripped...
Nauru authorities detain TVNZ Pacific reporter for interviewing refugee
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand journalist Barbara Dreaver has been detained by authorities in Nauru while covering the Pacific Islands Forum summit, reports Television New...
RSF condemns jail terms for two Myanmar journalists in ‘sham trial’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the seven-year prison sentences imposed on two Reuters reporters in the Myanmar city of Yangon yesterday...
Climate change, disasters feature in joint Indonesia-NZ media journal
By Rahul Bhattarai
A local Indonesian community leader has praised the co-publication of a climate change and disasters edition of Pacific Journalism Review launched at...
Peters announces NZ$10m boost to fund dedicated Pacific TV channel
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand will spend $NZ10 million in the next three years on a Pasifika television channel for the region.
The Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting...
Fiji media laws aren’t so draconian, says former MIDA chief
The Fiji media laws aren’t as draconian as they are perceived – if one follows rules - Asia Pacific Report's Sri Krishnamurthi was told...
Meet Sia, a Kiwi Korean culture and social media lover
By Leilani Sitagata in Auckland
Sia Caldwell made a big shift across the ocean at the start of this year to South Korea to teach...
From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden cost for Nauru
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
Nauru hosts the Pacific Islands Forum -- whose membership includes Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific Islands nations -- from...