Monthly Archives: August 2023
PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze
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...
Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping
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...
OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation
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...
PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid
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...
PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to 70%
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 to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks
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...
Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate
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...
Life-saving vow by Chinese doctor in PNG saves baby Taylor with ‘miracle’
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...
Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking
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...
Mediawatch: Putting right what went wrong with RNZ’s online news
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...
Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election nears
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...
New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua
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...
Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance
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...
‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough message
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...
PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout
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 review: Changes to be made as ‘promptly as possible’, says chair
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...
Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French ‘colonies’
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...
PNG police report capture of alleged kidnapper of 17 girls in Mt Bosavi area
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...
China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens its presence in...
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...
Ailing suspended Papuan governor Enembe now in detention cell after army hospital
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...
Papuan police investigate spate of fires razing offices, houses in Dogiyai
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...
Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report
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...