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Paris climate deal signing ceremony – what it means and why...
By Damon Jones and Bill Hare
The world took a collective sigh of relief in the last days of 2015, when countries came together to...
Survivors of Indonesia’s 1965 purge desperately seek end to stigma
After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of...
Timor-Leste’s veterans to boost Australia ties on ANZAC Day
Twenty-nine veterans of Timor-Leste’s struggle for national liberation will be visiting Australia next week to meet with members of the local veteran community and...
How Indonesia silences West Papuan independence supporters overseas
While abroad for a study exchange year in Melbourne, Connor Woodman discovered that Indonesia’s effort to thwart the independence movement of its troubled Papuan...
Vanuatu’s Appeal Court upholds 10-year ban on 14 former MPs
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
The Supreme Court decision to ban the 14 convicted former MPs from holding public offices in Vanuatu for 10...
Indonesian forces arrest 15 Papuan activists in Kaimana, wreck office
By Arnold Belau in Jayapura
Indonesian security forces have arrested 15 West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists and vandalised the KNPB secretariat in Kaimana district,...
Pacific graduate students win on AUT annual awards night
Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua won the SPASIFIK Magazine Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity reporting at AUT's School of Communication Studies...
Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’
Video clip of the final "living document" declaration by Pacific journalists and media officers at the human rights forum in Nadi, Fiji, over the...
PNG judge arrested, charged with judicial corruption
Anti-corruption police have arrested and charged a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court judge with judicial corruption, reports Loop PNG.
Judge Bernard Sakora, 68, of the...
Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’
By Bryan Bruce
I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week.
It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...
Tax havens among biggest foreign owners of NZ, says CAFCA
The Panama Papers have shone a most welcome - and long overdue light into the murky world of tax havens, offshore trusts and shell...
Asian human rights group condemns ‘illegal arrests’ of Papuans
The Asian Human Rights Commission has condemned the forced dispersal of peaceful Papuan protesters and their illegal arrest in Kampung Bhintuka-SP13 field in Mimika,...
Indonesia strengthens ties with Pacific ‘good friends’
By Fardah Pewarta in Jakarta
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and his delegation's recent trip to Fiji and Papua...
Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo
WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...
Indonesian ‘tolerance’ under strain as anti-LGBT furore grows
By Sharyn Graham Davies
Indonesia is experiencing an unprecedented wave of anti-LGBT sentiment.
If there was a single event that has incited the current wave of...
Cyclone Zena weakens and quickly passes western Fiji
By Matilda Simmons in Suva
As quickly as Tropical Cyclone Zena arrived, it has dissipated dramatically.
According to the latest data it would be difficult to...
Panama Papers tax haven leak blow to NZ ‘corruption-free’ image, says...
Transparency International New Zealand has been warning the government about weaknesses in corporate ownership and trust legislation for more than 15 years, says the...
Panama Papers: China censors allegations, but Russian media note contents
A trailer for the Panama Papers global investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the...
New cyclone threatens children, families in Fiji
Only weeks after category 5 Cyclone Winston ripped through the country, Fiji is once again facing extreme weather conditions due to the presence of...
Four Corners: The Panama Papers – secrets of the super rich
By Marian Wilkinson and Ali Russell
It's the shadowy world of secret international finance and tax avoidance.
"What we're looking at here is really a parallel...
Fiji picks up the pieces after TC Winston – looking to...
By Dionisia Tabureguci of Business Melanesia
As Fiji picks up the pieces after Tropical Cyclone Winston’s ravaging impact in late February, tourism and remittances...
‘Baseless accusations’ in Fiji police witchhunt, says former intelligence chief
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Former Fiji Police Force chief of intelligence and investigations Henry Brown says he has no confidence in Commissioner of Police...