Monthly Archives: December 2020

Saki landslide

By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby Bad weather has delayed the second relief supplies drop to Papua New Guinea's landslide victims at Saki village near...
Kerema open air market

By Rebecca Kuku in Kerema Gulf Province is only six hours away from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital city, and is one of the...
TC Yasa

By RNZ Pacific More than 4000 people are still in evacuation centres in Fiji nearly two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck. Relief supplies are getting...
Violence against Indonesian journalists

By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) chairperson Abdul Manan says there has been a sharp rise of cases of violence against...
Tolukuma mine

By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby A huge landslide has buried a long hut with 13 people asleep inside at the foot of the Tolukuma...
Lieutenant-General Dodik Widjanarko

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The commander of the Indonesian Army Military Police (Danpuspomad), Lieutenant-General Dodik Widjanarko says TNI AD soldiers in Papua have committed acts...
Pastor killing scene

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya regency, Papua, three months ago are...
Sir Mekere Morauta

OBITUARY: By Scott Waide in Lae For many Papua New Guineans, Sir Mekere Morauta will be remembered as the straight shooting politician and the reformist...
Stephanie Dike

By Laurens Ikinia As late South African President Nelson Mandela said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”...
Margaret Mills

Asia Pacific Report For Margaret Mills, adventurer, environmental campaigner, activist poet and Greenpeace stalwart, it was a lifetime dream coming true at 91. When she opened...
Poverty

ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud The notion that the covid-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal...
Vandalised KNPB secretariat

By Charles Maniani in Manokwari Indonesian Mobile Brigade (Brimob) paramilitary police, national police intelligence officers (intel) and the army's special forces (Kopassus) have stormed the...
Efeso Collins

By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland's lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand...
Professor David Robie

By Laurens Ikinia A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French...
NHS pharmacy technician

By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other...
Cyclone Yasa

By RNZ Pacific Many houses in Fiji's Vanua Levu have been destroyed, some families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses and others in...
Bainimarama and Xi

ANALYSIS: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva The uproar over the recent fisticuffs between Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Fiji may have subsided, with the Fijian...
Lady Ann Salem

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...
Sydney Airport 102020

By RNZ News It is looking increasingly likely that the much discussed trans-Tasman bubble is finally on the way. Cabinet has agreed in principle to quarantine-free...
Rainbow Warrior

SPECIAL REPORT: The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a...
Stuff website

ANALYSIS: By Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level...

By RNZ Saturday Morning The US detonated its largest nuclear bombs around the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 1950s - but the Marshallese are...