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NCTV team drops in on AUT’s Pacific Media Centre and Screen...
NCTV's latest news bulletin.
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
New Caledonia TV's chief executive Laurent Le Brun and colleagues made a flying visit to AUT's Screen...
Fred Wesley: Our environment message needs to be in every corner...
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley
Today is a special day. On June 5 every year there is a concerted effort to promote awareness on the importance...
Radio Tarana’s Khan honoured for services to radio, Indian community
Radio Tarana's honours video message from Robert Khan.
Pacific Media Watch
The founder and chief executive of New Zealand’s leading Indian radio network, Tarana, has today...
Timor-Leste judge acquits two journalists facing jail for defamation
By Bob Howarth in Dili, Timor-Leste
A Dili District Court judge has acquitted two Timor-Leste journalists on a charge of criminal defamation on the grounds...
Trump’s pullout from Paris climate pact ‘threatens lives’ of Pacific people
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
President Donald Trump's move to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is a grave moral injustice,...
Benny Wenda accuses Indonesian police of torturing Papuan official
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Police in Indonesia are facing allegations of torture from West Papuan independence leaders after a prominent human rights commissioner was...
PMW editor talks of concerns over martial law in southern Philippines
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Pacific Media Watch's Kendall Hutt spoke with 95bFM's The Wire host Tess Barnett today about martial law in the southern island...
The ‘battle of Paga Hill’ – controversial PNG doco finally on...
When the police roll in with bulldozers to clear a waterfront residential area in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby and make space for...
Firefighters dispute holdup hampers French Polynesian airport
Pacific Media Watch
The end of French Polynesia's airport firefighters strike has been held up in Tahiti amid a dispute between two unions, Radio New...
Southern Cross: Media climate study, free speech in Indonesia and Timor-Leste...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt speaks with host of Radio 95bFM's The Wire Amanda Jane Robinson about a study on...
PNG’s media council unveils updated code of ethics as guide for...
Charmaine Poriambep of TVWan News reports on the timely new PNG code of ethics.
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Journalists, reporters and media practitioners in Papua...
Thousands support Indonesian petition to repeal blasphemy law
By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta
Indonesians have called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to immediately repeal Article 156a on religious blasphemy of the Criminal...
Timor-Leste journalists facing jail for defamation over PM criticism
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliates Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the South East...
PNG police chief stands down expat security contractor over ‘illegals’
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
A group of United States security contractors engaged by Papua New Guinea's police chief to give firearms training have been...
CPJ condemns attack on Afghan state television — at least 6...
Al Jazeera's report on the attack on the National Radio Television of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has strongly condemned the...
PNG Media Council blasts assault on EMTV election news crew
EMTV's head of news Neville Choi reports on the assault on the television crew -- see item at 4min01sec. Video: EMTV News
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Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years
After almost 14 years, the Solomon Islands police force has been rearmed.
At a ceremony in Honiara last week the police force launched its limited...
Rabuka’s message to 1987 Fiji coup victims: ‘To you I say,...
By Litia Cava in Suva
Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former military coup maker Sitiveni Rabuka says the rioting and assault on some Fijians...
Armed men ’cause confusion’ in PNG capital – election observers announced
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
An online and television news service has reported concerns over "confusion" about recent sightings of armed expatriate men in the...
Southern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM's The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations...
Amnesty challenges Australian claim over shooting on Manus Island
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
Digital verification of images and videos establish that bullets were fired directly into the Manus refugee centre last month, putting...
Vanuatu switches to recovery mode after Donna — Ella now stronger
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
Cyclone Donna has moved on from Vanuatu towards New Caledonia and is now weakening.
And Cyclone Ella is gathering strength...