Yearly Archives: 2024

Fa'anānā Efeso Collins

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Fa'anānā Efeso Collins is being remembered as a pillar of the Pacific community with a "big heart of service",...
Fiji troops celebrating International Peacekeepers Day

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama says the country's intervention at the International Court of Justice over Israel's occupation of Palestine betrays Fiji's...
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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)...
"Culture shocking, overwhelming" . . . speaking at COP26 about Tuvalu

By Monika Singh of Wansolwara The fourth smallest country in the world with a population of just over 11,000 people --  Tuvalu -- fears being...
PNG's Prime Minister James Marape has pledged to Parliament that he will "restore police leadership to stabilise Enga"

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...
Horror . . . the bodies of tribesmen killed in Wapenamanda

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...
"All eyes on Rafah" in Fiji

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...
PNG Defence Force and police officers patrolling near the town of Wabag

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...
How the PNG Post-Courier reported the Wapenamanda massacre in Enga province today 20Feb24

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...
Today's open letter on Gaza in The Post to NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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...
Alternative PM Allan Bird and others

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...
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon protest at Big Gay Out

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...
Funding UNRWA aid

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...
After filing two complaints with the International Criminal Court

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

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...
A burnt out Papuan home in Puncak regency

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...
PNG's Acting Speaker Koni Iguan

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...
New Zealand, Canada and Australia warn that Rafah invasion would be 'catastrophic'

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...
USP's associate professor Shailendra Singh and QUT's professor Angela Romano

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...
Seven-year-old Ali leads a pro-Palestine march

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...
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Samoan Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa

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,...
UniFiji vice-chancellor Shaista Shameem

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...