Monthly Archives: February 2022

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...

RNZ Pacific West Papuan human rights defender Victor Yeimo has been formally indicted on charges of "treason" by Indonesian authorities at the Jayapura District Court. The...

RNZ News Epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson is urging New Zealanders to take omicron seriously, and certainly not to think of it as similar to the...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The early morning action on Monday to cordon off the occupation of Parliament grounds and prevent it growing...

By Nick Truebridge, RNZ Checkpoint reporter Police leaders condemned the behaviour by protesters outside New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington today as "absolutely disgraceful". The...

RNZ Pacific The Fiji government has warned that unvaccinated people in the vaccine-eligible population are 17 times more likely to die if they contract covid-19...

RNZ News One of the people funding New Zealand's two-week-old Parliament grounds occupation says it makes no sense to maintain a quarantine system at the...

COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A national trade union in Papua New Guinea today blamed State Enterprises Minister William Duma for causing a media freedom furore...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the omicron outbreak is likely to peak in Aotearoa New Zealand in three to six weeks. At that point,...

By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist Two weeks in and New Zealand's anti-mandates occupation of Parliament grounds remains a total stalemate with no sign...

COMMENTARY: EMTV's deputy news editor Jack Lapauve Jr in Port Moresby writes in defence of the newsroom's decision to walk out in protest over...

COMMENTARY: Open letter by Nick Rockel to the Parliament protesters. So the Parliament protest goes on, the first protest I can recall having absolutely no...

RNZ News Some residents of the area around New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington are worried about leaving their houses with protesters outside, while...

RNZ Mediawatch There was plenty of condemnation of New Zealand's illegal occupation of Parliament in the media at first -- but this week some media...

RNZ News New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Mary Argue of the Wairarapa Times-Age Screams erupted as the sound of gunshots ricocheted around the open-air market. People ran. It was bloody. “I...

RNZ News Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal...

Last week the Bougainville Autonomous Government announced an agreement had been reach with Panguna landowners to reopen the island's controversial gold and copper mine. Once...

RNZ News Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...

By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Justice Minister and Madang MP Bryan Kramer has been referred to the Public Prosecutor by the...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Papua New Guinean television station EMTV did not run its usual 6pm news bulletin last night as its journalists and news...