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‘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...
Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf
For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was...
Covid survey shows high anxiety and depression among Asian Kiwis
By Liu Chen, RNZ News reporter
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders, according...
Ten PNG women and girls killed in four years in gender-based...
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
About 10 women and girls in Port Moresby have become victims of gender-based violence and have ended their lives...
NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing,...
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow...
Tragic life and death of Jenelyn – babysitter tells of PNG...
By EMTV News
Jenelyn Kennedy eloped with her partner at a tender age of 15, bore him his first child at age of 16, and...
PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...
USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other...
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in...
Wadan Narsey: BDO report is not ‘history’ for Pacific taxpayers
COMMENT: By Wadan Narsey
The current chair of USP Council, Winston Thompson, has airily dismissed media questions about the contents of the BDO Report, alleging...
Chinese businessmen ‘complied with quarantine measures’ – 10 PNG cases
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...































































