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By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...

Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They demonstrated in Arawa in central...

Panguna women landowner protesters -- mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville -- have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government...

OBITUARY: Pacific Media Watch News Desk Vanuatu's President Baldwin Jacobson Lonsdale has died at Vila Central Hospital early today after being rushed to hospital last...

Aerial shot from a drone of Banggolo and Bubonga barangays in Marawi City taken on 8 June 2017 shows the destruction and fire from...

ANALYSIS: By Jess Hopkinson and Holly Driscoll Social media is a new phenomenon which enables easy and instant access to voters. Papua New Guinea’s freedom...

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill campaigns for his People's National Congress (PNC) candidates contesting in the 2017 National Elections in the Highlands this week. Video:...

ANALYSIS: By Joey Tau in Suva Vanuatu is the latest Melanesian state to express reservations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) agreement...

Malcolm Evans reflects on the price of the half of the century of Israeli occupation Palestinian territory and illegal settlements in defiance of the...

New Zealand peace activists gathered together at the weekend in Devonport -- home of the country's first "nuclear-free zone" -- to pay homage to...

The joint parade of disciplinary forces in Port Moresby at the weekend. Video: EMTV News By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby A joint parade between members...

OPINION: A Pacific World Oceans Day message from Youngsolwara Pacific and MISA4thePacific As regional leaders gather in New York for the week-long United Nations oceans...

Rappler wrap-up on the Qatar crisis. Pacific Media Centre News Desk The Philippines has suspended the deployment of workers to Qatar after several Gulf states severed...

PNG Women in Politics founder Dorothy Tekwie pleads for change in this general election. Video: TVWan News Pacific Media Centre News Desk Papua New Guinea's Greens...

OPINION: By Gary Juffa Everywhere one goes in Papua New Guinea, one is met with the hopeful, innocent faces of the future ... our children. They...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Indonesian Military (TNI) has begun mobilising its forces -- including warships and intelligence operations -- in northern parts of Indonesia...

The European Union and China step up climate collaboration. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Centre News Desk The Pacific Islands Forum remains committed to the Paris...

By Len Garae in Port Vila “I was fighting in the mountains and I heard your voice from across the ocean coming to support my...

The EMTV News report of the eviction of the villagers. By Godwin Eki in Port Moresby Hundreds of poor Papua New Guineans have been left homeless...

Meredith Kuusa reports for TVWan News. Pacific Media Centre News Desk Papua New Guinea's Catholic Church cardinal has given a resounding "no" to deep sea mining...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva has hit back at reports that he told a press conference that “Chinese businesses in...

By Olivia Allison Auckland University of Technology has appointed a new head of the School of Communication Studies, the largest in New Zealand, the university...