Yearly Archives: 2018
Richard McLeod: Make our voices known against the euthanasia bill
OPINION: By Richard McLeod
Two years ago, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee investigating public attitudes to euthanasia and assisted suicide in New Zealand received a...
PNG doctors call for compulsory post-mortems to stem sorcery killings
By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby
Post-mortems should be compulsory in alleged sorcery-related deaths, says Papua New Guinea's National Doctors' Association (NDA).
Legislation must be...
Indonesian leader meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, vows support
By Mahmut Atanur in Jakarta
Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, southwestern district of Bangladesh, as part of his official...
Michael Powles: ‘Recolonising’ the Pacific would stir security backlash
ANALYSIS: By Michael Powles with Anna Powles
Australia's recent Foreign Policy White Paper says that Australia's approach in the region will focus on "helping to...
Indonesia prone to cyber attacks up to the year 2025, says digital expert
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesia is predicted to be prone to cyber attacks from this year until 2025, says a media communication and technology consultant.
A.T....
Bougainville autonomy ‘positive’ but improvements needed, says poll report
PNG's NRI researchers present Bougainville referendum reports. Video: EMTV News
By Meriba Tulo in Port Moresby
The autonomous arrangements for Bougainville have been described as positive.
However,...
Duterte vs Rappler: Declaration of war against Philippine media?
On The Listening Post this week: Rappler battles with authorities plus climate sceptics and the media platforms they get. Video: Al Jazeera
As Rappler, a...
Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset structures of ‘democracy’
BOOKS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review
When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth "coup...
Poor Vanuatu pay ruling risks negative impact on security, say upset police
By Richard M. Nanua in Port Vila
Some Vanuatu police officers have raised dissatisfaction on the implementation of the Government Remuneration Tribunal (GRT) ruling taking...
UN critics join global outrage over Duterte’s Rappler ‘free press’ attack
Rappler’s CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa says that the Philippine government spends a lot of effort to turn journalism into a crime which...
Chris Overland: O’Neill’s ‘monstrous’ plan trashes traditional land legacies
OPINION: By Chris Overland in Adelaide
Recently, Keith Jackson's PNG Attitude has been publishing a discussion on some of the unhappy events that occurred as...
Indonesian court convicts mining protester over ‘communist’ symbol
By Yovinus Guntur in Banyuwangi, Indonesia
An Indonesian court has convicted and sentenced an environmentalist to 10 months in prison on a charge of spreading...
Indonesian soldiers drink snake blood, smash bricks for US Defence Secretary
United States Defence Secretary James Mattis has watched Indonesian special forces smash concrete blocks with their heads, walk barefoot across a flaming log, and...
Nothing can stop Duterte extending Philippine martial law, says legal chief
By Lian Buan in Manila
Philippine Solicitor-General Jose Calida says nothing - not the Supreme Court (SC) and not even the Constitution - can stop...
‘This isn’t the time to be silent,’ say writers defending Rappler
By Jee Y. Geronimo in Manila
After the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) decision to revoke Rappler's licence to operate in a blow to press...
Sano Malifa: Criminal libel and PM Tuilaepa’s ‘gift’ from American Samoa
OPINION: Samoa Observer editorial by Gatoaitele Savea Sano Malifa
Let’s face it. For every beginning there is an end. And for every end there is...
Research explores media practice, freedom of the press in Samoa
By Joshua Lafoai in Apia
A research paper by a National University of Samoa lecturer warns media freedom in Samoa still faces many challenges.
Media freedom...
The man I never knew – a tribute to a PNG crash pilot’s tragic...
By Malum Nalu in Port Moresby
As I look into the face in the photo
Into the eyes of the man I never knew
I...
‘Help us’ plea from Bougainville police to find 18 escaped prisoners
By Theresa Baranangko of New Dawn FM
Eighteen prisoners who have escaped from Bougainville's Buka police station are still at large.
Police station Commander Kingsley Lua...
Prime Minister Pōhiva submits his cabinet lineup to the Tongan king
By Kalino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News
A businessman, Dr Tu’i Uata, who was not elected by voters to Tonga's Parliament has been named by...
Why is Israel so afraid of 16-year-old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi?
OPINION: By Ariel Gold and Taylor Morley
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi was back in court last Thursday, with the judge ruling for the third time that...
King’s second son’s noble rights announced in Tonga Gazette
By Kalino Latu in Auckland
King Tupou VI’s second son is the lawful successor to the hereditary noble title and estate of Ata, it has...