Monthly Archives: April 2021
Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea
RNZ News
A New Zealand veteran who fought in Korea told of his experience of war and the horror of seeing napalm used for the...
An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago.
Rupert Brooke, 26, was...
Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports
By Reza Gunadha and Chyntia Sami Bhayangkara in Jayapura
Victor Mambor, journalist and editor of the Papua-based Tabloid Jubi, has become the target of a...
Papuan protest outside UN after Anari gagged for second time
Papuan protesters outside the United Nations headquarters yesterday after John Anari was gagged again from making a full statement at the UN Permanent Forum...
PNG Parliament adjourned for general health and safety, says Marape
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape has defended the adjournment of Parliament for four months, saying this is...
Locke invested with NZ Order of Merit for his human rights advocacy
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy, this week invested social justice advocate and former Green Party MP Keith Locke as a Member...
Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction sign of long history of US police brutality
ANALYSIS: By Clare Corbould, Deakin University
The unprecedented conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin in the United States for the murder and manslaughter of George...
‘Gagged’ West Papuan envoy to raise self-determination issue again at UN
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A West Papuan envoy who was gagged while addressing the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues two years ago is...
Samoa could go back to the polls with a hung parliament
By Lagi Keresoma in Apia
Samoa could end going back to the polls should a tie of 26/26 between the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP)...
PNG parliament adjourns amid covid surge and attempt to remove PM
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's parliament has adjourned for almost four months, dashing an attempt to oust Prime Minister James Marape.
The adjournment allows Marape to...
Fiji health chief attacks ‘reckless’ reporting over covid outbreak
The Pacific Newsroom
Fiji’s Health Secretary Dr James Fong strongly attacked his country’s media for “reckless reporting” today, saying it could spark panic.
He gave no...
Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment...
NZ plans ‘fairer’ health sector shake-up – DHBs scrapped, new Māori agency
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
New Zealand is scrapping district health boards and creating a new Māori health agency in a radical "fairer...
RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific
Reporters Without Borders
The Asia-Pacific region’s authoritarian regimes have used the covid-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the “dictatorial...
Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new cases cited
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting...
Covid-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of...
ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Nguyen Doan, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
What have...
Nine Australians fighting for gender equality and making a difference
ANALYSIS: By Blair Williams, Australian National University
It feels like every day brings more harrowing claims of harassment, bullying and abuse of women in Australia's...
‘Don’t put all eggs in one basket with China,’ warns Mahuta
RNZ News
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has urged New Zealand to diversify its trade arrangements and not put all its eggs in one basket...
Bainimarama blames ‘protocol breach’ for second Fiji community covid case
By Praneeta Prakash in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says a breach in protocol in relation to the 53-year-old woman now testing positive of...
Beach body off Pacific LPG ship throws Vanuatu capital into covid lockdown
The Pacific Newsroom
Vanuatu's capital island of Efate has gone into covid-19 lockdown for three days after a body was found on a beach near...
Trans-Tasman bubble opens – data key to other bubbles opening, says PM
RNZ News
While the trans-Tasman bubble today is "a significant day" for New Zealanders, any moves to open the borders to other countries will need...
SAFEnet finds digital attacks targeted academics, journalists and activists
By Dian Erika Nugraheny in Jakarta
The Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) recorded 147 digital attacks in Indonesia during 2020, the majority...