Monthly Archives: July 2022
Moresby police chief rejects call for capital curfew after election violence
By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby
National Capital District Metropolitan Police Superintendent Gideon Ikumu has ruled out a proposal to impose a curfew in the...
Commonwealth observers call for ‘urgent review’ of PNG electoral process
RNZ Pacific
The Commonwealth group that has been observing the Papua New Guinea national elections has called for an urgent review of the electoral process.
The...
‘Stay vigilant’, Guam governor warns over China’s Pacific intrusion
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Tumon, Guam
Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has expressed support for the Federated States of Micronesia’s move to oppose China’s proposed...
Covid and reality: Do we care enough about the common good?
ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
The covid-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the...
PNG police arrest 18 suspects following election attacks in Port Moresby
Inside PNG News
National Capital Dictrict (NCD) police have arrested 18 suspects following the slasher attacks on civilians yesterday outside Papua New Guinea's national elections...
Pasifika wāhine launching new Waikato Pan Pacific health hub
By Aden Miles Morunga, Local Democracy Reporter
“It’s exciting to know that I am involved in making history and that my contribution will leave a...
Armed PNG election supporters cause chaos in capital, attack bystanders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Running like a pack of animals, a group of political party supporters in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby...
Pro-independence Kanaks sign pact with West Papuan movement
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...
Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari
For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands...
Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting
By Jairo Bolledo in Manila
A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City,...
‘You’ve got to be tenacious in public health,’ says NZ’s departing chief
RNZ News
After leading the Aotearoa New Zealand's covid-19 response for the last two years, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is stepping down from the role of...
USP unions slam Fiji’s Sayed-Khaiyum for ‘damaging’ Pacific university
By Wata Shaw in Suva
Fiji's Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is "doing damage" to the premier regional university by withholding the Fiji government’s obligatory contribution,...
Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up...
Researchers warn of growing potential for mass killings in Papua region
By Victor Mambor and Alvin Prasetyo in Jayapura
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is warning in a new report that mass killings of civilians could...
Vanuatu elects new president after eight rounds of voting
RNZ Pacific
Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of the Republic of Vanuatu.
It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College...
‘A bit of a surprise’ – Greens co-leader James Shaw’s job on the line
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens' leadership by...
NZ local government: ‘We’re ready for change – it’s about youth and iwi’
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
A district mayor says the Aotearoa New Zealand local government sector is ready to launch into a future that...
Porgera villagers helpless, unsafe in their homes as ‘warlords’ kill freely
By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier
“It’s okay, we'll just sit here and they can come kill us.”
These chilling words are from a defenceless...
Fiji elections chief tells local media to ‘upskill’ overseas reporters
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva
Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem has called on local media to upskill their overseas counterparts in the wake of...
‘Doorstops’ at the Pacific Forum – why no tough questions on West Papua?
By Asia Pacific Report editor David Robie
A lively 43sec video clip surfaced during last week’s Pacific Islands Forum in the Fiji capital of Suva...
18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour amid PNG elections
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...
Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human rights
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting has ended and what is intriguing is the deafening silence on declining...