Yearly Archives: 2018
Nauru faces media, security pressure ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Nauru President Baron Waqa addressing the media before opening the Pacific Islands Forum. Video: PI Forum Secretariat
By Gia Garrick, Political Reporter of RNZ National
Regional...
Sedition, coup-era media law and nerves keep lid on Fiji press
With the date for this year’s second Fiji general election since the 2006 coup yet to be announced, one of the questions is will...
NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark
By Jessica Marshall in Auckland
The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...
Gallery: Stimulating insights, vision for gender diversity summit
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is the new patron for the National Council of Women and she shared her...
NZ offer still open for taking 150 refugees, says PM Ardern
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reaffirmed her country’s offer to take 150 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island...
Storytelling a Filipino migrant family’s experiences in NZ student doco
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
Student journalist Irra Lee has offered a "human face" to migration in a new short documentary called A...
Aid groups call on Pacific leaders to end Nauru refugee ‘stain in region’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Amnesty International has joined 80 other NGOs in urging Pacific leaders to demand the closure of the Australian-funded immigration detention camp on...
Gallery: Climate change, disasters spark Indonesian-NZ research publication
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
AUT Indonesia Centre director Lester Finch and Auckland Indonesia Community representative Maman Baboe spoke strongly last night in support of Indonesian...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it free’?
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...
Plea for PM to be ‘game-changer’ in Pacific support for West Papua
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A New Zealand-based West Papua advocacy group has appealed to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other leaders meeting at the Pacific...
Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The village of Baliau on Papua New Guinea's Manam island has publicly apologised to an assaulted journalist reporting for The National...
Canberra’s new PM Morrison has little foreign policy, Pacific interest
By Susan Harris Rimmer in Brisbane
With all the focus this week on new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domestic challenges, less attention has been paid...
Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Some villagers affected by the volcanic eruption on Manam island haven taken out their anger and frustration against four journalists covering...
Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island
EMTV's Madang correspondent Martha Louis reports from Manam island. Video: EMTV
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 5000 people, including children, on Papua New Guinea's Manam...
PINA condemns attack on PNG journalist covering volcano
By RNZ Pacific
The president of the Pacific Islands News Association says he is appalled and disappointed by an attack on Papua New Guinea journalist...
Nauru refugee camp demolished to hide abuse, says rights advocate
By Benjamin Robinson-Drawbridge of RNZ Pacific
The oldest refugee camp on Nauru is being demolished to hide abusive conditions from the Pacific Islands Forum, an...
Opposition leader calls on Fiji to end ‘betrayal’ of West Papuans
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Fiji's Opposition Leader Ro Teimumu Kepa has called on the government of Fiji to "stop its betrayal" of the people of...
JAWS president backs call to abolish Samoa’s criminal libel law
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu in Apia
Rudy Bartley, president of the Journalist Association of Samoa (JAWS), has supported the international call for Samoa’s government to abolish...
Calls grow for Jokowi to protect Indonesia’s Tapanuli orangutan
By Evi Mariani and Apriadi Gunawan in Jekarta and Medan
Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya paid a visit to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo...
PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation
By Scott Waide in Lae
Madang Governor Peter Yama confirmed today that at least two Papua New Guinea Defence Force vessels were being sent to...
Jokowi unmoved by growing support for ‘noise’ blasphemy case woman
By Christie Stefanie in Jakarta
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says he respects the verdict handed down by an Indonesian local court against an ethnic Chinese...
PNG’s Manam volcano erupts again, forcing islanders to evacuate
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted again, reports journalist Scott Waide on his blog.
This is his blog's picture of...