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France tax rebate to boost New Caledonia’s AirCalin airliner fleet
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...
Democracy and media freedom – the paradoxes of Fiji, Kanaky
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...
Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism...
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...
Nauru, PNG join Fiji in global ‘obstructed’ freedoms watchlist
Six in 10 countries now seriously repressing civic freedoms, according to findings in the latest Civicus Monitor, a global research collaboration tracking fundamental freedoms...
PM blames Bougainville missing budget on ‘administrative error’
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...
Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific
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...
Couple remanded in big Vanuatu human trafficking, slavery case
By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the...
Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay
By RNZ Pacific
Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say...
Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St...
Fiji women have confidence that their gender in politics will hear...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
The role of women in every segment of society is vital and this is slowly been reflected through more women...
Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace
By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta
Six Greenpeace activists have reportedly been detained by the captain of the tanker Stolt Tenacity for staging a rally...
FijiFirst wins second four-year term in office in Fiji general election
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's FijiFirst party has triumphed in the general election and will govern for a second four-year term after...
PNG governor may block Australian naval base bid on Manus
By RNZ Pacific
The governor of Papua New Guinea's Manus Province has hinted that he could obstruct Australia's bid to build a naval port on...
Fiji’s elections chief Saneem slams 4 political parties – counting on...
By Wansolwara Staff
Fiji's Supervisor of Elections has hit out at four political parties for making claims that the tabulation process for the provisional results...
Crosbie Walsh: Fiji elections still a cliffhanger, FijiFirst hanging on
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
With the final results from 1715 (79 percent) of the 2173 polling stations now counted, who will form the next...
FijiFirst leads election polls, 772 stations yet to be counted
By Wansolwara Staff
The ruling FijiFirst party has taken a narrow lead in the Fiji general election final results today ahead of the opposition Social...
Ben Bohane: A tribute to the ‘grand old man’ of the...
OPM Southern Commander Bernard Mawen (right) with Commander John Koknak (left) and the Morning Star flag at the time of being interviewed by Vanuatu-based...
SODELPA leads official Fiji party tally after 527 of 2170 stations...
By Wansolwara Staff
Official poll results for the Fiji 2018 general election are trickling in slowly as the Social Democratic Liberal Party leads the race...
Fiji poll campaign blackout period to end at 6pm tomorrow
By Wansolwara Staff
The Fiji general election campaign blackout period is expected to end at 6pm tomorrow after the final votes are cast by 7498...
500 US marines arrive in PNG to bolster APEC summit security
US Marines arrive in Port Moresby on board USS Green Bay. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 500 US marines and US Navy...
Fiji’s Bainimarama maintains strong poll lead, 618 stations to be counted
By Wansolwara Staff
Caretaker Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has maintained a strong lead early today in Fiji's general election, polling 140,631 votes from 1552 of...
Bainimarama, FijiFirst take strong lead in provisional election count
By Wansolwara Staff
Caretaker Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama took a strong lead in the Fiji general election last night, raking in 55,203 votes from 651...