Yearly Archives: 2018
Fiji newspaper sedition trial – Fiji Times Four found not guilty
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The High Court in Suva has found the Fiji Times Ltd, its three senior executives and a letter writer not guilty...
US looks at defence, foreign policy and impact of Chinese aid in Micronesia
RNZ Pacific
The US Defense Department is to report to the US Congress by December 1 on a range of security concerns in the northern...
Tommy Suharto: Indonesians are ‘longing’ for return to Suharto rule
Talk to Al Jazeera in the Field programme features Tommy Suharto.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Suharto political dynasty is being revived in Indonesia, reports Al...
Hot off the press – Wansolwara marks USP’s 50th anniversary
By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva
The first edition of the University of the South Pacific’s student journalist training newspaper Wansolwara for the year has hit...
Indonesian military joint plan for greater role in counterterrorism
By Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani in Jakarta
Indonesia's Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko has claimed that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had expressed...
Tongan PM seeks royal audience after lawyer’s constitutional advice on law
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The government of Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva has planned an audience with the King of Tonga after a...
Human rights campaigner Mike Treen talks about Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Mike Treen talks to Palestinian writer Ramzy Baroud on why he is going on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in July in a bid to...
Gaza under siege – but Palestinians ‘will never give up’, says author
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Palestinian author and a journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud vowed today that Palestinians would never be defeated by the Israelis and...
Jale Moala: Fiji’s longest day – George Speight and the march of madness
BRIEFING: By Jale Moala in Port Moresby
MAY 19, 2000: As editor of the Fiji Daily Post newspaper in Suva, I was expecting some big...
Justice Rajasinghe to deliver Fiji Times sedition trial verdict on Tuesday
By Litia Cava in Suva
High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe is set to deliver his verdict on Tuesday after the three assessors returned with...
Fiji Times sedition trial assessors give unanimous ‘not guilty’ opinion
By Talebula Kate in Suva
The three assessors in The Fiji Times sedition trial tonight returned a unanimous not guilty opinion on all counts.
They found...
Kilauea volcano ash rains down on Hawai’i with more blasts predicted
USGS geologist Michelle Coombs giving a status update about Hawai'i's Kilauea volcano. Video: USGS
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Scientists are predicting an eruption that shot ash...
‘Cheated’ PNG landowners threaten to close five fish processing plants
Lae landowners have given the papua New Guinean government seven days to review existing agreements or they will close the disputed tuna fish canneries....
PNG cellphone users given new SIM card registration reprieve
By Amanda Watson
Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister Sam Basil has decided to extend the deadline for mobile phone subscriber identity module (SIM) card registration...
Tong Sang voted in as new French Polynesia assembly president
French Polynesia's Territorial Assembly has elected the ruling Tapura Huiraatira party's Gaston Tong Sang as its new assembly president for a five-year term, reports...
Martyn Bradbury: Still awaiting the birth of a real Fourth Estate
By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
I was fortunate enough to get a guest ticket to go along with Voyager to the NZ...
Timor-Leste finally has a government. But what happens now?
By Guteriano Neves in Dili
After nearly a year of political deadlock resulting from a minority government, and a divisive political campaign, Timor-Leste is set...
‘New dawn’ for Malaysia, pledges freed Anwar Ibrahim after full pardon
Anwar Ibrahim's royal pardon paves the way for a return to politics for the former opposition leader who was jailed three years ago for...
Duterte holding bilateral talks with PNG prime minister O’Neill
By Rosalie Coz in Manila
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was due to hold bilateral talks later today with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister...
Former Unitech VC takes legal steps in ‘scary’ PNG education controversy
The former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea's Unitech will seek leave from the National Court to retrieve his original PhD certificate from Italy, reports...
RNZ enters content partnership with Pacific Media Centre
RNZ has announced a formal content sharing partnership with the Auckland-based Pacific Media Centre - Te Amokura. The arrangement will allow content from rnz.co.nz,...
Journalists’ free alliance advocate calls on minister to use UN ‘leverage’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Australian journalist and academic who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison has welcomed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's...