Monthly Archives: February 2021

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney The tech juggernaut Facebook’s shock decision to block all news feeds from Australian media outlets this week in response to...

By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Facebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and...

COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...

ANALYSIS: By Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content....

By RNZ News The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week's change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to...

ANALYSIS: By David Welch, University of Auckland; Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago; Joep de Ligt, ESR, and Nigel French, Massey University New variants of SARS-CoV-2...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lashed out at Australia for dumping responsibility for a woman and two young children detained at the...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Nervous Papatoetoe High School students were lining up today in big numbers to get tested, saying they want...

By Devina Halim in Jakarta The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was killed in Intan Jaya, Papua, on September 19 last year has agreed...

Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa are...

By Luke Rawalai in Suva Opposition parliamentarian Ro Filipe Tuisawau claims University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor Winston Thompson and audit and risk committee deputy...

By RNZ News The exact source of Auckland community cases of covid-19 in the latest New Zealand outbreak is the "big unknown" and there could...

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in  Suva The whistleblowing vice-chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal Ahluwalia, has described the illegal...

REFLECTIONS: By Robbie Robertson and Akosita Tamanisau in Melbourne The pictures of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a proposed cyber-security law in Myanmar that would organise online censorship and force social media...

By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Indigenous Papuan students who are currently studying in New Zealand and Australia have formed an educational association, choosing Waitangi Day...

COMMENT: By Laurens Ikinia The above photo is an image of how I grew up in Papua. But before I share my story, I would like...

By Jina Amba in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra says 620 elementary school teachers have been deregistered after it was...

By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa's prime minister has gone public with his desire to "rehouse" the University of the South Pacific (USP) in...

By RNZ Pacific The deported vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific says booming student enrolments are a vote of confidence in the regional...

By RNZ News A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south-east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands and a tsunnami warning is in place for several countries. Geoscience...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The deportation of academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia last week is alarming and highlights the restrictive environment for freedom of expression in...