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Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit
By Gorothy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape will visit Australia this weekend for a week-long state visit and the...
Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Two school girls from East Java, Aeshnina Azzahra (alias Nina), 12, and Zahira Zade, 11, have sent hand-written protest letters to...
Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland
More than 50 years of "torture" has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the...
Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide in Karida, Papua New Guinea
On Wednesday, some of the bodies of 18 women and children in Papua New Guinea...
PNG massacre aftermath – PNG Defence Force deployed to Tari
Police Minister Bryan Kramer announcing he would be in Tari to work with police to find a long term solution to tribal fights. Video...
Tongan tourism officials to ‘wipe out’ Miss Heilala over her criticisms
By Philip Cass
Tonga’s tourist authorities will wipe the former Miss Heilala, Kalo Funganitao, from the records in retaliation for her speech at this year’s...
Karida massacre victims buried as other PNG villagers flee in fear
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The bodies of the Karida village massacre victims in Papua New Guinea's Hela province have been buried as fearful villagers in...
Outrage over killing of pregnant women, children among 22 dead in...
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS World News
VIDEO WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Papua New Guinea has responded with outrage over the killings of at least 22 people,...
Philippines faces call for UN rights inquiry into war-on-drugs killings
Amnesty International is calling Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs a "systematic campaign of killing". It wants the United Nations to investigate what...
PNG police minister Kramer claims plot to arrest him
Dumped police commissioner Gary Baki announces his challenge to the new government, claiming that he is the legal commander. Video: EMTV News
By RNZ Pacific
Papua...
Sale of Vanuatu passports ‘degrading’, says Sokomanu
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s first President and one of the founding fathers of political Independence, Ati George Sokomanu, is calling on the...
Anger as Tongan beauty queen’s bullying claim speech disrupted
TVNZ's Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver reports on organisers trying to shut down the outgoing Miss Heilala Queen during her final address. Video: TVNZ
By Kalafi...
Sacked PNG police chief claims he will challenge his removal
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's new Police Minister Bryan Kramer, once the Opposition MP scourge of the former Peter O'Neill-led government, is continuing...
Secrecy veil over deportation of six Chinese nationals raises key questions
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Under a veil of secrecy, China has convinced Vanuatu to enforce Chinese law within its own borders.
Six Chinese nationals...
No sunbaking in Fiji for Kate – she’s riding to save...
By Anita Divers
Kate Bielby is going to Fiji this month - but she won’t be lying in the sun on the beach.
Instead, she will...
Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
The Chinese Embassy has for a second time failed to respond to a request for comment concerning its role...
Marchers in Tahiti ‘mourn’ French nuclear weapons test legacy
By RNZ Pacific
An estimated 2000 people have joined a march in French Polynesia this week to mark the 53rd anniversary of France's first atomic...
‘I’ll resign if found guilty’, pledges PM Marape over UBS loan...
Deputy Prime Minister Davis Steven has been tasked to set boundaries on the terms of reference and set a timeframe to complete Papua New...
Search goes on for missing Indonesian military Mi-17 helicopter in Papua
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The search for the missing Indonesian military Mi-17 helicopter, which disappeared on Friday, continues around the Mol and Aprok mountains near...
Indonesian Army helicopter with 12 on board goes missing in Papua
By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta
Silas Papare Air Force base in Sentani, Jayapura, has reported that an Mi-17 helicopter belonging to the Indonesian Army...
Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but new threats to...
ANALYSIS: By Bates Gill of Macquarie University
As China solidifies its new status as superpower and cementing its influence in the Pacific, The Conversation...
‘I click therefore I exist’ – media research and ‘humanism’
The AMIC 2009 conference highlights. Video: AMIC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A new video has been produced on YouTube featuring highlights of this month's 27th AMIC...