Yearly Archives: 2020

COMMENT: By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea The primary weapon of choice for Papua New Guinea tribes spread out over the Upper Watut...

By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New...

By EMTV Online The PNG Defence Force has handed over three suspects for the killing of police Senior Inspector Andrew Tovere to the investigating police. Assistant...

COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji. Today is the...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Quietly passing us by in these frenetic covid-19 coronavirus weeks as New Zealand takes a big step back to...

By RNZ News The state of emergency across New Zealand has been lifted on the eve of alert level 2 - putting the country in...

The 30-minute Foreign Correspondent report by ABC. By ABC News Indepth Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence fighters and...

Pacific Media Centre TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...

COMMENT: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Was New Zealand media giant NZME trying to pull a “fast one” when the company...

OBITUARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Before Ben Ryan (2016 Fiji gold medal winners at the Rio Olympics) there was George...

Pacific Media Watch The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...

By Katie Scotcher, reporter for RNZ News A New Zealand doctors' union fears the Waitematā District Health Board is covering up mistakes that led to...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji has put its hand up to join New Zealand and Australia's travel bubble amid the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, New Zealand...

ANALYSIS: By Vissia Ita Yulianto of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Jian-bang Deng of Tamkang University Before the covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, the...

By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National and Supreme Court sittings in Waigani, NCD, resumed under the “new normal” yesterday - no...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and...

Pacific Media Watch More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest...

By RNZ News NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff's owner saying it...

COMMENT: By Scott Waide, deputy regional head of news of EMTV News Yesterday , we received a lot of criticism over our coverage of the...

By Kris Gledhill of Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether...