Monthly Archives: August 2023

Firefighters battle to put out a Port Moresby fire

PNG Post-Courier As drivers and pedestrians continued on their daily business yesterday afternoon in Papua New Guinea's capital city Port Moresby, a cry went out...
Papua Regional Police Chief Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri

RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has called again for the immediate release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who has now been held hostage...
Melanesian solidarity with West Papua on display at the MACFEST 23

Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a "United Indigenous Nations" for global justice and...
Some of the weapons and ammunition seized by PNG police

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a...
Grade 12 students from the Waigani Christian College in Port Moresby

By Joy Olali and Max Oraka Papua New Guinea’s literacy rate stands at 63.4 percent -- the lowest in the Pacific -- with the government...
Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant

RNZ Pacific Japan plans to start releasing treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean as soon as later this...
Fiji-born journalist Sri Krishnamurthi

OBITUARY: By David Robie New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has...
Dr Liu (second from right) visits baby Taylor (cradled by his mother)

By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby It isn't every day that a doctor will follow up with a patient and check how he or...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino (from left) with Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad and Fiji Football Association president Rajesh Patel

By Rodney Duthie in Suva Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad has called on the Fiji Football Association to address the problem of the decline...
The Press front page RNZ story

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter A review of RNZ's online news has called for greater oversight and enforcement of standards after a crisis sparked...
Author Byron Clark Clark believes Pacific nations are “less susceptible to climate change disinformation

By David Robie Two researchers examining responses to conspiratorial pandemic narratives have warned Aotearoa New Zealand not to be complacent over the risk of fringe...
Filmmaker Kristo Langker nervously introduces his documentary with one of the Indonesian attack bombs that failed to explodevideo

The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021...
Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific anti-nuclear advocacy groups and campaigners have condemned the Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's...
PNG police get even tougher . . . this week settlers who had allegedly been evicted opened fire at police officers with a stray bullet wounding a female reporter

PNG Post-Courier Faced with a rise in the number of criminals in Papua New Guinea who are now armed and shooting at the police, Police...
The wounded NBC journalist near Port Moresby 2 August 2023

PNG Post-Courier Police in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District are investigating the shooting yesterday of a woman reporter working with the National Broadcasting Corporation...
RNZ board chair Dr Jim Mather

RNZ News The integration of RNZ's digital team with the wider news team was meant to take place during the merger with TVNZ that never...
Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced...
Southern Highlands police headquarters, Mendi

By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Papua New Guinea's police commissioner David Manning says a man allegedly involved in the kidnapping of 17 girls...
Solomon Star's editor Alfred Sasako adamant that the newspaper has maintained its editorial independence

By Mackenzie Smith and Toby Mann of ABC Pacific Beat Concerns have been raised about foreign influence in Pacific media after it was revealed Solomon...
A team of doctors from the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) when visiting the suspended Papuan Governor, Lukas Enembe, at Kartika Pavilion 2 of the Gatot Subroto Army Central Hospital on 28 July 2023

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya An Indonesian court has held a hearing to consider whether the ailing suspended Papua Governor, Lukas Enembe, is well enough...
Razed office buildings and boarding houses in West Papua's Dogiyai Regency, Central Papua Province, which caught fire on Monday 31 July 2023

Jubi News Papuan police are investigating a spate of mysterious fires in the Dogiyai area in Central Papua province. The razed structures include the offices of...
The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist The media sector in the Pacific should be supported with an enabling environment to...