Monthly Archives: August 2021

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Speaker Job Pomat walked into an empty chamber of Papua New Guinea's Parliament after the bell was rung about...

COMMENTARY: By Pita Waqavonovono in Suva I thank The Fiji Times for covering this story. I also thank Archbishop Peter Chong for providing a space...

By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific Journalist The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately...

By David Robie Pacific journalism educators are worried that the global covid pandemic has threatened media development programmes in a vast region of island microstates...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Lawyer and human rights activist Veronica Koman has spoken out about the worsening health of Papuan activist Victor Yeimo who has...

RNZ News The climate is changing, faster than we thought - and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen...

ANALYSIS: By Steven Ratuva The frequent detention and questioning of some of Fiji's political leaders by the police late last month for merely engaging in...

RNZ News New Zealand has two new cases of covid-19 in managed isolation and quarantine and two historical cases today, says the Ministry of Health...

RNZ Pacific Fiji has admitted 240 covid-19 patients to hospital and almost a dozen of them are in critical condition, say health authorities. This comes amid...

By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Anti-corruption efforts in Papua New Guinea have received a major boost of €5.4 million (about K21.7 million) in funding...

By Shanil Singh in Suva The University of the South Pacific has announced the reappointment of Professor Pal Ahluwalia as its vice-chancellor and president and...

By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local...

Journalists already under threat of military arrest, jail and torture in Myanmar are now fronting a covid-19 national crisis as the virus rips through...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The director of the Bali Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), Ni Kadek Vany Primaliraning, has been reported to the Bali regional police...

By Bernadette Carreon of Pacific Island Times Four Micronesian leaders skipped the Pacific Islands Forum's 51st virtual session yesterday, in a continuing protest over the...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Artist Dinar Candy has held a protest action over the extension of Indonesia's Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) by...

ANALYSIS: By Rhonda Garad, Monash University; Joanne Enticott, Monash University, and Rebecca Patrick, Deakin University As we write this article, the delta strain of covid-19...

By Paulini Curuqara in Suva Fiji Olympic rugby sevens captain Seremaia “Jerry” Tuwai’s parents couldn’t hold back their tears and kept thanking God for the...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A female nurse in Madang is the first local Papua New Guinean to be tested positive for the highly...

By Pita Ligaiula of Pacnews in Suva Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama used his inaugural speech as the new chair of the Pacific Islands Forum...

RNZ Pacific Fiji has reported 968 new cases of covid-19 and 11 more deaths, including a teenager, for the 24 hours to 8am yesterday. That compares...