Monthly Archives: March 2020

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand is providing NZ$1 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Suva, Fiji, to support its Pacific Action Plan for...

By Praneeta Prakash in Suva Four people have been isolated by Fiji health officials and are being monitored for suspected Covid-19 coronavirus infection. The Health Ministry...

By RNZ News A third case of Covid-19 coronavirus has been confirmed in New Zealand. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told RNZ's Morning Report that...

Pacific Media Centre Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) staff are calling for restraint and calm as a New Zealand family in isolation for Covid-19...

By Sri Krishnamurthi The shock announcement yesterday that the Australian Associated Press newsagency will cease operations after 85 years is a blow to journalism in...

By Alexandra Wake of RMIT University Australia’s news landscape, and the ability of citizens to access quality journalism, has been dealt a major blow by...

Pacific Media Watch Citizens, journalists, lawyers and international media personalities have joined together in an international open letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, calling...

By Sri Krishnamurthi Former Director of Public Health Dr Colin Tukuitonga says it is incumbent on New Zealand to screen passengers travelling to and from...

By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the country’s heavily forested West...

Pacific Media Centre Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD says he is not interested in further examining the document containing...

By Marchio Irfan Gorbiano in Jakarta President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that two Indonesians have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the...

Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre's weekly radio programme Southern Cross made its 2020 debut today featuring Sri Krishnamurthi talking to 95bFM presenter Sherry...

OPINION: SunStar editorial in Cebu So it goes. Nineteen senators in the Philippines Senate have approved on the third and final reading of Senate Bill...

By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Authorities and the media alike knew it was just a matter of time before New Zealand had its first...