Monthly Archives: November 2024
New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press in the US...
ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti, City St George's, University of London and Waqas Ejaz, University of Oxford
Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But...
Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, returned to the...
Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today...
Gavin Ellis: A day to be gripped by fear – ‘freedom’ will lose its...
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
This morning, I am afraid. I am very afraid.
I fear that by the time I go to bed democracy in the...
US votes as Gaza burns – Trump ‘declares victory’ in tight election
Asia Pacific Report
As Americans voted for their next president, Israel has continued its attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Republican presidential...
US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if Trump wins
By Losirene Lacanivalu of the Cook Islands News
The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections...
US presidential election holds high stakes for Pacific relations
PMN Pacific Mornings
With Election Day for one of the most consequential United States presidential races in recent history underway, Pasifika communities on both sides...
Republican Kimberlyn King-Hinds wins delegate race in CNMI
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Kimberlyn King-Hind, from the CNMI Republican Party, won the race for the CNMI's lone...
Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New York Times
Pacific Media Watch
The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for...
Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in the US or...
COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins
She made it clear in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, again at her televised debate...
Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age
By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology
In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring...
West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura
Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia,...
Palestine advocate condemns NZ silence over Israel’s UN attacks
Asia Pacific Report
The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...
USP hosts high-level People’s Daily media delegation from China
By Charlene Lanyon in Suva
A high-level, seven-member delegation from People’s Daily, China's most influential newspaper, has been hosted by the University of the South...
How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with...
Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza
Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...
‘Genocide as colonial erasure – UN expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s ‘intent to destroy’...
Democracy Now!
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel’s deadly siege on northern Gaza has entered a 30th day. Early week, the World Health Organisation managed to deliver some...
Palau Media Council condemns lawsuit as ‘assault on press freedom’
Pacific Media Watch
The Palau Media Council has condemned a political lawsuit against the publisher of the Island Times as an "assault on press freedom"...
Palau newspaper sued by president’s family company ahead of general election
By Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews
Palau’s largest newspaper is being sued for defamation by the company of President Surangel Whipps Jr's father, just days ahead...
Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple "black and...
Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza as Israel ‘suffocates the truth’
Pacific Media Watch
Another Palestinian journalist, Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, has been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, confirms...
Philippine Supreme Court orders ‘temporary protection’ for abducted environmental activist
By Jairo Bolledo in Manila
The Philippine Supreme Court has granted temporary protection to an environmental activist abducted in Pangasinan earlier this year.
In its resolution...