Monthly Archives: February 2024

Palestine's UN envoy Riyad Mansour speaking at the International Court of Justice on Monday.   Video: Dawn News Pacific Media Watch The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara The fourth smallest country in the world with a population of just over 11,000 people --  Tuvalu -- fears being...

EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking...

By Gorethy Kenneth Papua New Guinea’s image on the international stage took a battering yesterday when graphic images of dead bodies piled upon each other...

Asia Pacific Report A Fiji human rights advocacy coalition has condemned Fiji's "profoundly troubling" stance as being one of only two countries supporting continued illegal...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A man housing people who fled a massacre in Papua New Guinea's Enga province yesterday says pregnant mothers and...

By Miriam Zarriga Under the banana leaves on a roadside in Papua New Guinea's Highlands lies the dismembered and bullet-riddled bodies of eight men. All have...

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki began his address to the week-long "historic" International Court of Justice hearings into the status of the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's opposition has vowed to remove Prime Minister James Marape and his government from power. During a media...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon abruptly left the Big Gay Out festival in Auckland's Point Chevalier today after being confronted by Gaza...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Unfortunately there was no discussion of foreign policy during Aotearoa New Zealand's general election last year. Aside from the odd obligatory...

Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is "nothing short of horrifying" -- Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and...

Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan pro-independence leader has accused Indonesia of new human rights atrocities this week while the republic has apparently elected a...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The opposition group in Papua New Guinea's Parliament staged a walkout yesterday after a fiery exchange, amid an ongoing...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Winston Peters says Israel’s actions getting ‘out of hand’ ahead of planned Rafah offensive Prime Minister Christopher...

Wansolwara News The University of the South Pacific journalism programme is hosting a cohort student journalists from Australia's Queensland University of Technology this week. Led by...

RNZ News With an "appalling" loss of life unfolding in Gaza, it's essential Israel halts plans for an assault on the city of Rafah, Prime...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Keeping the Pacific nuclear-free, in line with the Rarotonga Treaty, was a recurring theme from the leaders of Tonga,...

By Karishma Kumari in Suva The University of Fiji will be offering its journalism and media studies programme at its Samabula campus from this semester. UniFiji...

Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has announced in Istanbul a plan to sail again to challenge Israel’s unlawful and deadly siege of...

By Blessen Tom, RNZ IndoNZ journalist A 27-year-old former police officer is off to represent New Zealand at the Miss World beauty contest in India...