Monthly Archives: June 2020

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Young Papua New Guinean mother-of-two Jenelyn Kennedy died from “head injury and bruised internal organs”, according to a doctor...

By RNZ Pacific Four people convicted of assaulting the director of Vanuatu's highly acclaimed Wan Smolbag Theatre Company have been sentenced for what the judge...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby The care of duty supposed to be provided to the young Papua New Guinean mother Jenelyn Kennedy killed last...

By Lian Buan  in Manila Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr have filed a motion for partial reconsideration, appealing...

By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was...

Pacific Media Watch Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn...

By Liu Chen, RNZ News reporter The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders, according...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby About 10 women and girls in Port Moresby have become victims of gender-based violence and have ended their lives...

From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow...

Pacific Media Watch Protesters in Papua New Guinea and on social media have launched calls for tougher laws to protect women and girls from gender-based...

This is part of the front page of Papua New Guinea's The National this weekend. Normally we would not publish such a harrowing image...

By EMTV News Jenelyn Kennedy eloped with her partner at a tender age of 15, bore him his first child at age of 16, and...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in...

COMMENT: By Wadan Narsey The current chair of USP Council, Winston Thompson, has airily dismissed media questions about the contents of the BDO Report, alleging...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on...

From RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan On 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an Auckland wharf by two bombs...

By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand's "intransigence" over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up...

By Nasik Swami in Suva In the in­ter­est of trans­parency, the Univer­sity of the South Pa­cific should make pub­lic the con­tents of the univer­sity’s "secret"...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim...

EDITORIAL: By Jonathan Milne, editor, Cook Islands News For the past few months, our Cook islands Parliamentarians have said repeatedly, “we’re all in this together”....