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Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Trade Union Congress has slammed the appointments of Jeffrey Kennedy as chancellor and Kenneth Sumbuk as vice-chancellor of...

By Ben Bohane Reports of the Indonesian military using white phosphorous munitions on West Papuan civilians last month are only the latest horror in a...

By Sofia Tomacruz in Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao Battle-scarred they might be, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have faced their toughest campaign yet. Armed with nothing but...

By Anya Imandin The right answer to the wrong question over the Brexit referendum is still the wrong answer, says an Auckland University of Technology...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Talks to draft the Paris Agreement rulebook remained deadlocked today on traditionally tough issues. Emerging economies - China, India, Brazil and South...

ANALYSIS: By Professor Derrick Armstrong A traditional view of the tension between research and policy suggests that researchers are poor at communicating their research findings...

PROFILE: By Sincha Dimara in Port Moresby I once asked my mother how was it that she married at the tender age of 16 and...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesian police should investigate a Papuan armed group’s killing of at least 17 people, including a soldier, at a construction area...

How UN agencies strive to put human rights at the centre of their work. Video: UN Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Hundreds of workers from the Confederation...

By Sara Stefanini and Karl Mathiesen in Katowice, Poland In a moment of drama in Poland, countries have closed ranks against a push by oil...

By Ray Jordan in Lampung, Indonesia President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo insists that work on the Trans-Papua road project will continue despite this week's shooting of...

By Arnold Belau in Jayapura and Wahyoe Boediwardhana in Surabaya More than 530 Papuans in several cities across Indonesia and West Papua were arrested following...

By Pauline Mago-King It has only been two weeks since the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, yet much has transpired – to...

By Tony Firman of Tirto in Surabaya A protest action by the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) in Indonesia's East Java provincial capital of Surabaya yesterday...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Hundreds of Papuan students faced off with counterprotesters in Indonesia’s second largest city of Surabaya today in a rally calling for...

By RNZ Pacific The group known as the Nauru 19 will go back to court next week in what will be the first sitting of...

By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's international airline, AirCalin, has been given tax rebates by France to buy two new Airbus airliners. The French High Commission in...

Pacific Media Centre newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre has wrapped up the academic year with a seminar dedicated to democracy and media freedom in the...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in...

Six in 10 countries now seriously repressing civic freedoms, according to findings in the latest Civicus Monitor, a global research collaboration tracking fundamental freedoms...

By RNZ Pacific The Bougainville President, John Momis, says he has been assured by Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, that the absence of...

ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism...