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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...

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 Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua won the SPASIFIK Magazine Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity reporting at AUT's School of Communication Studies...

Video clip of the final "living document" declaration by Pacific journalists and media officers at the human rights forum in Nadi, Fiji, over the...

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...

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...

The Panama Papers have shone a most welcome  - and long overdue  light into the murky world of tax havens, offshore trusts and shell...

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,...

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...

WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...

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...

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...

Transparency International New Zealand has been warning the government about weaknesses in corporate ownership and trust legislation for more than 15 years, says the...

A trailer for the Panama Papers global investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the...

Only weeks after category 5 Cyclone Winston ripped through the country, Fiji is once again facing extreme weather conditions due to the presence of...

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...

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...

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...

By Adam Harvey in Jakarta Indonesia says it will watch foreigners more closely after Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted his support of a controversial environmental...

Papuan activists have met with US Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake in the provincial capital Jayapura to discuss human rights, politics and US-owned Freeport...

By Thompson Marango in Port Vila When officiating the oath of a new Supreme Court judge this week, President Baldwin Lonsdale took the opportunity to...

By Tama Salim in Suva Indonesia is looking to strengthen its diplomatic ties with South Pacific countries by appointing a special envoy to the region...