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70 PNG soldiers deployed in quake zone as death toll hits...
EMTV's Scott Waide reports from the earthquake zone.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has deployed 70 soldiers from Port Moresby to...
Gallery: Yellow rose awards ‘celebrating change’ through women’s achievements
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Zonta Club of Auckland "celebrated change" through its yellow rose awards on International Women's Day today.
Speakers included Michelle Kidd, QSM,...
Driving the future – AUT launches NZ’s first electric bus
AUT News video
By Lucy Handford
New Zealand’s first fully battery powered electric bus hit the road today, thanks to a joint initiative by Tranzit Group,...
New Timor treaty will finally set borders to resolve oil, gas...
ANALYSIS: By Tom Clarke
Timor-Leste and Australia has signed a maritime boundary agreement at the UN headquarters in New York today, putting their long-running border...
PNG’s earthquake death toll in Highlands now tops 75
By Sylvester Gawi in Limu village, Hela, Papua New Guinea
Thousands of people have been displaced and are still waiting for relief assistance in disaster...
K150m released to PNG’s earthquake-ravaged districts in more relief efforts
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill visiting disaster-hit areas at the weekend. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Provinces affected by Papua New Guinea's 7.5 magnitude earthquake...
How Jack Mawe died trying to save his wife and child...
By Scott Waide of EMTV News
While the multibillion dollar mammoth petroleum company Exxon declared “force majeur” and another counted its financial losses, one family...
‘Play for our people’ call by Southern Highlands musicians after PNG...
Elizabeth Tondoa appeals to Southern Highlands musicians to join her in next week's fundraising concert. Video: EMTV News
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Southern Highlands singers Elizabeth...
PNG declares state of emergency in wake of quake devastation
Communities struck by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea's Hela province remain confused as aftershocks continue. Despite the arrival of National Disaster...
31 deaths so far in PNG quake, but ‘hit-and-miss’ on rural...
Professor Chalapan Kaluwin of the University of Papua New Guinea's School of Natural and Physical Sciences says the country should prepare itself for more...
‘I won’t resign – yet,’ says Natuman over Vanuatu obstruction case
By Glenda Willie and Jonas Cullwick
Vanuatu's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, Trade, Commerce and Ni-Vanuatu Business Joe Natuman has pleaded guilty to...
14 confirmed dead in PNG Highlands quake, aftershocks
Two PNGDF helicopters had been deployed to the earthquake-hit Southern Highlands region to assist National Disaster officials carry out initial assessment, says Chief-of-Staff Colonel...
More than 30 feared dead after quake hits PNG’s Hela, Southern...
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
More than 30 people are believed to have been killed in the massive 7.5 magnitude Papua New Guinean earthquake...
Philippine bishops call for vigilance amid ‘creeping dictatorship’
By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila
Bishops have called for vigilance in the face of a "creeping dictatorship," as the Philippines marked the 32nd anniversary...
Tuila’epa calls for urgent action over climate change for Pacific survival
By Nanette Woonton at Te Papa
The stark realities of climate change were laid bare at the opening of the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Climate Conference...
Filipino shootout at PNG supermarket sparks demand for firearms ban
Police have charged a man with murder after the death of his security officer colleague in a shootout. Both men were Filipinos and investigators...
Ardern mission for post-Gita visit to Tonga, Samoa, Niue and Cook...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the New Zealand government’s Pacific Mission will take place early next month and travel to...
Tuila’epa to open high-powered Pacific climate conference
Trailer for the controversial climate change documentary Anote's Ark - former Kiribati President Anote Tong opened the previous Pacific Climate Change Conference in Wellington...
Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Tropical Cyclone Pam brought wide-spread devastation to Vanuatu nearly two years ago.
It also brought an outpouring of aid - including 70...
KontraS demands Indonesian police investigate death of terror suspect
By Riani Sanusi Putri in Jakarta
Indonesia's Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) has demanded police investigate the cause of death of...
West Papua one step closer to MSG membership, says Wenda
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Melanesian Spearhead Group has made solid progress under the chairmanship of Solomon Islands. Video: EMTV...
One Filipino dead, two wounded in PNG supermarket shootout
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An expatriate man is dead and two local Papua New Guineans are badly wounded - both children - after two ex-Filipino...