Yearly Archives: 2020

Al Jazeera's Inside Story features the global coronavirus health emergency. BACKGROUNDER: By Global Voices What started at a seafood market as a local health issue...

Pacific Media Watch The Media Council of PNG has called on all state agencies involved in policing and securing the country's borders and people against...

By Harry Lock of RNZ News New Zealand universities fear the temporary travel ban on foreigners from China due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is...

By Benny Geteng in Rabaul A Papua New Guinean student leader in the Chinese city of Wuhan says students fear for their lives with the...

By RNZ News A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will...

By Denis Muller in Melbourne In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking...

By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was...

By RNZ News A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Philippine parliamentarians to resist President Rodrigo Duterte’s threats and ensure the survival of ABS-CBN, the...

By RNZ News Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus. Infections from the novel coronavirus...

Video report by RNZ Pacific. RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme...

By RNZ News New Zealanders evacuated from Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Aotearoa - not on Christmas Island like the Australians. As...

Rappler editorial It’s not the virus. It’s not the Chinese flying into the Philippines. Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan crisis is panic. Here's the situation:...

By Stanley Ove Jnr in Port Moresby The PNG Immigration and Citizenship Authority (PNGICA) has ordered a temporary shutdown of the Wutung border post with...

By Andrio Adiwibowo in Jakarta After beating the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemics in the past, we may...

By RNZ News The unexpected death of a person in New Zealand who recently travelled to China is being investigated for coronavirus, but a local...

By RNZ News New Zealand health authorities are following up reports of a person with coronavirus in the southern New Zealand tourism city of Queenstown. RNZ...

Pacific Media Watch An American environmental journalist accused of violating the terms of his visa has been freed after three days in jail and is...

By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has attacked the Samoa Observer, accusing the nation’s only daily newspaper of being...

John Minto praises Iraqi protests against US aggression in the Middle East and calls for NZ troops to be recalled at a rally in...

By RNZ News The first Australian case of Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed, with a man being held under isolation in a Melbourne hospital. News of...

A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia. By Michael Andrew in Jakarta International journalists and agencies have condemned...