Monthly Archives: May 2020

ANALYSIS: By David Robie of the Pacific Media Centre/Te Amokura, Auckland University of Technology As fears grow over vulnerability to the coronavirus in parts of...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The pressure goes on re-elected World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont to investigate Fiji Rugby Union chief...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported two new cases of covid-19 in the coronavirus pandemic in the past 24 hours and one further death,...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand's Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National...

By Filipe F. Salvosa II in Manila The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) today issued a cease-and-desist order against ABS-CBN Corporation, the major television broadcaster in...

The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour. By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea's two daily newspapers...

By RNZ News The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have agreed to ease travel restrictions between the two countries as soon as it is...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch After nearly five weeks of alert level 4 covid-19 lockdown and a...

By Mark Hanson of Counties-Manukau Health Vomiting while helping birth a baby on the police launch Deodar while it was being tossed around in turbulent...

By RNZ News The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report...

By Philip Cass of Kaniva News Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index. In last year's index, compiled...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...

By RNZ Pacific New Zealanders left behind in India are asking for additional repatriation flights to evacuate them, after the government did not have enough...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch The jailing of the Jakarta Six – five Papuans and the first Indonesian to...

On World Press Freedom Day, Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor and publisher of the Pacific Island Times, questions Guam's information management of the media amid the...

By Bernadette Carreon, RNZ Pacific Palau correspondent Palau's President says the World Health Organisation's neglect of Taiwan has endangered, not only Taiwanese, but people everywhere. In...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday -  and one further death in the...

EDITORIAL: By Kaniva News staff Last month’s announcement by Minister for Pacific Peoples 'Aupito William Sio that overstayers qualify for health care during the covid-19...

A clip from the SOE Controller's media conference. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea expects a spike of covid-19 cases this month -...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi reporter of RNZ News Community checkpoints have garnered support from New Zealand local councils, police and hundreds of...

By Radio Australia There have been very few new covid-19 cases confirmed in the Pacific this week. The total number of reported cases since March stands...

By Basten Gokkon of Mongabay Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a  sweeping lockdown in an attempt to minimise the...