Yearly Archives: 2021
Shailendra Singh: Some tough covid questions for Fiji after 12 more cases
COMMENT: By Shailendra Singh in Suva
Perth in Australia was plunged into a three-day lockdown after community transmission was linked to a returnee from India.
Fiji...
Indonesia slammed for inviting Myanmar coup leader to ASEAN
By Ryan Aditya in Jakarta
Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Fatia Maulidiyanti has condemned the invitation to Myanmar coup leader...
Police scuffle with protesters against Myanmar junta leader at ASEAN
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Police have forced protesters demonstrating at the weekend against the attendance of Myanmar military commander General Min Aung Hlaing at the...
Oil companies get caught spying on NZ children and the story sinks quickly
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...
Jennifer Robinson – fighting for Assange, Papua and public education
RNZ Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill
Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been described as the go-to barrister for London's rich and famous.
Standing by...
Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for help
RNZ Pacific
The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.
Addressing the...
Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”,...
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...