Pacific Media Watch
Tongan journalists who clashed with PM reshuffled out of TBC newsroom
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Two senior journalists have been ousted from the newsroom for new roles in a shake-up at the state...
ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear weapons ban treaty
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The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, reports Al Jazeera English.
In...
Deported Chinese nationals alleged to be sex workers, not fraudsters
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The 77 Chinese citizens deported from Fiji by uniformed Chinese police in August were sex workers, according to an investigative report...
Ambae is Vanuatu’s story, not just a global media backdrop
OPINION: By Dan McGarry
It happens every time disaster strikes in the developing world. The inhabitants of the place become background players in a drama...
Rampaging mob attacks PM O’Neill’s interests – ‘warlords’ take over Mendi
By Johnny Poiya and Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
A rampaging crowd has attacked Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s official vehicle and business...
Manus Island refugees offered $25,000 each ‘if they go home’
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The Australian government will be offering money to refugees on Manus Island who agree to return to their home countries as...
‘Jail for life’ offer for freedom of co-accused in Fiji sedition...
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka, Fiji
One accused walked away a free man yesterday while another offered to serve a life sentence if the High...
Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...
UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the...
West Papua ignored by most NZ major political parties’ election policies
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On the eve of New Zealand’s 2017 general election, Pacific Media Watch reports on whether West Papua features in the human...
Pasifika voters want ‘hand-ups, not hand-outs’ in NZ housing crisis
By Kendall Hutt in Māngere
Pasifika voters in South Auckland have stressed they would like to see “hand-ups, not hand-outs” following New Zealand’s 2017 general...
Vanuatu’s PM aims at UN over ‘sensitive’ West Papua issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, says some South Pacific leaders at this month's Forum in Samoa backed off...
The Daily Blog: Why we’re giving 13 NZ political parties a...
Kiwi Fair Go Debate #KiwiFairGo - tonight at 8pm.
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury of The Daily Blog
I love New Zealand's democracy. It’s representative, it allows...
Journalist faces defamation probe over Indonesia’s treatment of West Papua posting
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati Sukarnoputri to Myanmar's Aung...
Indonesian police probe funding for group accused of ‘hate hoaxes’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesia's National Police continue to dig deeper into the Saracen group, an online syndicate accused of creating and spreading hoax news and...
Māori, Pasifika to have stronger profile in Labour RNZ+ media policy
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New Zealand’s Māori and Pasifika community will have a stronger presence in the country’s public media if the Labour Party succeeds...
Murdoch press in Australia linked to deforestation in Indonesia
By Vaidehi Shah
Environmental campaigners have accused The Australian and Courier Mail newspapers in regional Queensland of being printed on paper linked to illegal deforestation...
Moana Te Reo film world premiere tonight in Māori language week
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In celebration of New Zealand's Māori Language Week, the Māori reversioning of the blockbuster Disney movie Moana will premiere tonight in...
Global refugee crisis solution ‘up to all of us’, says filmmaker...
The Venice film festival has just ended, and one of the most challenging movies was the documentary Human Flow by Chinese artist and activist...
What NZ’s major political parties offer on climate policy for 2017...
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With New Zealand’s 2017 general election just two weeks away on September 23, Pacific Media Watch looks into the policies and...
Forum chief promises protesters ‘voice of Papua’ will be heard in...
By Elizabeth Ah-Hi in Apia
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, has promised protesters that their voice on West Papua...
‘Shared stewardship’ of ocean key to Pacific Forum strategy
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Leaders from across the Pacific are meeting in Apia, Samoa, this week to discuss the future of the region’s oceans.
Under the...
Cambodia Daily branded ‘a thief’, forced to close over tax fight
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One of Cambodia's last remaining independent newspapers has announced it is closing today after 24 years, the latest in a series...