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Elite Rangers captain killed as battle for Marawi rages on
Filipino Colonel Romeo Brawner gives Day 112 updates on the battle for Marawi City, Mindanao. Video: Rappler
By Carmela Fonbuena in Marawi City, Philippines
A...
Jacinda has climate talk but Greens have the walk, says Greenpeace
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greenpeace climate campaigner Kate Simcock has applauded the Greens for their climate policy announced yesterday.
“It’s exactly the sort of response to...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Don’t forget customary land, West Papua issues
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
On Friday, the 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting -- and all other related meetings...
Vanuatu to deport illegal workers in labour market crackdown
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
Vanuatu's minister responsible for labour matters, Alfred Maoh, has warned foreign workers engaged in paid employment in the country...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Another Pacific talkfest but what about the carbon...
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia
There is no doubt about it. The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia this week have...
Break-in ‘will not shake’ PNG’s Transparency International
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) says its work will continue despite a break-and-entry incident that occurred at their Boroko premises...
NZ High Commissioner in Samoa casts first elections 2017 overseas vote
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand's High Commissioner in Samoa, David Nicholson, cast the first vote for the upcoming New Zealand general election from the...
Australian judge awards ‘fair’ $70m to Manus Island asylum detainees
Manus Island prison ... as reported by Leah Harding about Iranian filmmaker Behrouz Boochani and the docomentary Chauka: Please Tell Us The Time at...
Mastermind behind murder of activist Munir still unknown after 13 years
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
Almost 13 years to the day since human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was poisoned with arsenic aboard a...
Papuan leaders want say in Freeport copper mine negotiations
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura
The Indonesian government's decision to allow one of the world's largest copper and gold mines to operate in Papua province...
16 years on: Looking back on Bougainville’s Peace Agreement
Flashback: An EMTV News video report on the Bougainville peace.
By Fabian Hakalits in Arawa
It has been 16 years this week since the signing of...
Kingdom’s snap election curbs chance for overseas Tongan candidates
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The sudden timing of Tonga’s early general election has hit some of the Tongan citizens living overseas who...
‘We’ll have final say on any mining,’ warn Panguna landowners
A video report by Fabian Hakalits. Source: EMTV News
By Fabian Hakalits in Buka
Panguna landowners will determine any reopening of the controversial mine on Bougainville,...
Thousands of Filipinos demand end to killings in Duterte’s drug war
Children as young as five have become the latest victims in what's believed to be the bloodiest week in the Philippines since President Rodrigo...
Climate change champion, Nobel nominee Tony de Brum mourned
By Shawn Raymundo and Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, a Pacific champion of climate change...
Duterte inspired by ‘Petrus’ shootings, says Indonesia’s Wiranto
Summary execution-style killings between 1982 and 1985, known locally as penembakan misterius (mysterious shootings), or Petrus, were infamous as a means of bringing down...
Former chief justice slams Gamato’s ‘premature’ PM election move
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Sir Arnold Amet, today condemned the actions of the beleagured Electoral Commissioner in...
PNG Ombudsman wins court order to extend electoral writs deadline
EMTV News reports on the election writs court order.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Ombudsman Commission has obtained an interim court order to extend the return...
Only 10% NZ school leavers ‘Asia-ready’ and just one-third ‘in zone’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Less than 10 percent of school leavers are "Asia-ready" and only 36 percent are "in the zone" when it comes to...
Constable Jimmy dies in PNG elections ambush – ‘being a cop’s...
By Elizah Palme in Wabag, Papua New Guinea
Duty called for two police officers and other members of Papua New Guinea's Mt Hagen Mobile Squad...
Panguna priest wins Bougainville seat – Alliance claims to have numbers
Tension is high in Mt Hagen after the declaration of former Public Enterprises Minister William Duma - illegally, claim critics, before the counting of...
Why Pacific and Māori communities are rising up for a free...
ANALYSIS: By James Borrowdale in Auckland
Like apartheid South Africa, I kept hearing. For a long time, the horrors behind the curtain thrown up by...