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Benny Wenda: A referendum, not ‘autonomy’, only West Papua solution
COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua
For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...
New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be...
By RNZ News
Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...
‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid...
By RNZ News
The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus.
Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...
Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation...
Police have become political tool under Widodo’s watch, says rights group
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation says there are two problems with the Indonesian police which have developed during the...
Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary
By RNZ Pacific
A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...
Police commissioners in Tonga and the dropped reforms
COMMENTARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga
Where does the responsibility of Tonga's Police Commissioner lie?
Is it to the Police Minister and Cabinet? To the...
‘Fight not over’, says Robredo pushing for safeguards in anti-terror law
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial...
PNG health survey shows 56% of women suffer violence at age...
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of...
Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy...
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News
The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...
200 protest in Auckland as NZ rallies target illegal Israeli land...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 200 people protested in Auckland as demonstrations took place in at least nine New Zealand cities and towns today against...
‘It’s time men stand up for our women’ message at ‘turning...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
A passionate plea by men, women and children has echoed around the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby...
Open letter to Jakarta – Papuan self-determination isn’t special autonomy v2
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A Papuan church leader and advocate for social justice has penned an open letter to the Indonesian government calling for justice...
Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence
Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful "cry for justice" march in the nation's capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV...
Dame Meg Taylor: We must act now over gender-based violence in...
OPEN LETTER: From Dame Meg Taylor to the people of Papua New Guinea
I write this as a Papua New Guinean and a daughter of...
Chris Hipkins replaces David Clark as NZ’s caretaker health minister
From RNZ News Checkpoint
David Clark is out and Chris Hipkins is in as New Zealand's new Health Minister until the election in September.
Hipkins told...
Kaiwi to undergo quarantine before moving into main Bomana prison
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Bhosip Kaiwi, the man accused of murder in the Papua New Guinean torture case, will be held at the Correctional Services...
Hong Kong protesters in NZ worried about new national security law
By Mackenzie Smith of RNZ News
Hong Kong protesters in New Zealand are worried they could be arrested if they return home because they have...
Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...
Doctors, family, friends ‘failed’ Jenelyn in duty of care, says PNG...
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
The care of duty supposed to be provided to the young Papua New Guinean mother Jenelyn Kennedy killed last...





























































