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PNG opposition lose no-confidence vote but challenge gagged debate
EMTV News clip featuring the restricted parliamentary debate on the no-confidence vote and closing out of discussion of student unrest.
By Serah Aupong in Port...
Business as usual as O’Neill easily survives PNG no-confidence vote
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill easily survived as national leader of Papua New Guinea today by winning the parliamentary no-confidence...
PNG no-confidence vote today – livestreaming
Police were on full alert in the main city centres of Papua New Guinea's capital of Port Moresby today to keep watch for any...
Indonesian police under fire over arrest of Papuan students, racial abuse
By Ryan Dagur in in Jakarta
Indonesian Church officials and activists have accused police in Yogyakarta of racism and using excessive force after six Papuan...
Images: Asia-Pacific delegates make their mark at global media conference
Pacific media educators and trainers from around the Pacific took advantage of last week’s 4th World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) to get up to...
Samoan photographer wins ‘changing lives’ artist residency in Apia
By Helen Isbister
Auckland-based Samoan photographer Evotia Tamua will use an artist residency at the National University of Samoa to complete a 20-year photography project...
UN Special Rapporteur speaks out against restrictions on free speech in...
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Maina Kiai, has highlighted the issue...
West Papuans sold out for ’30 pieces of silver’, says Natuman
Compiled by Jane Joshua
Vanuatu's Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman believes other people are trying to use the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to drive...
MeP pushes ahead with plan for Pacific media educators and trainers
Pacific media educators and trainers from around the Pacific took advantage of last week's 4th World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) to get up to...
Opposition MP accuses O’Neill govt of ‘bribing’ ahead of no-confidence vote
By Gorethy Kenneth
Opposition National Party Leader Kerenga Kua has accused Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government of enticing Members of Parliament --...
Australia funds fisheries surveillance, new long-range patrol vessel
The Forum Fisheries Agency welcomes Australian funding of aerial surveillance in FFA member states, reports Vanuatu Daily Digest.
FFA Director-General James Movick says the service will...
Fijian Virimi Vakatawa in France 7s squads for Rio 2016
France coaches Frédéric Pomarel and David Courteix have unveiled the men's and women's squads for rugby sevens' debut at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
There...
Nauru government slams Australian media ‘bias’ over elections
By Stefan Armbruster
Nauru’s newly re-elected justice minister has accused Australian media of "bias" that "failed dismally" to destabilise the government of President Baron Waqa.
The...
Herman Wainggai: 14 years on, nothing has changed for West Papua
OPINION: By Herman Wainggai
In 2002, West Papuan leaders and I traveled to Fiji to urge leaders of the PIF to support West Papua.
I also...
Melanesian Spearhead Group ‘fails’ West Papua, says Vanuatu
By Pasifik in Honiara
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has failed the people of West Papua.
The MSG last night...
WJEC16: Journalism education in the South Pacific – the new advocacy...
Livestreaming
For years, journalism education and training in the Pacific has relied on donor-funded short courses and expatriate media educators.
But in recent times, this has...
WJEC16: Post-COP21: Journalism climate change education in Asia-Pacific: Responding to key...
Leading up to COP21 Paris, there was overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is happening, and human-induced.
With global warming on the increase and species...
PNG Opposition leader Polye calls for ‘democratic’ no-confidence vote
Opposition Leader Don Polye speaking in an EMTV Newscast last night. Video: EMTV
Papua New Guinea's Opposition Leader Don Polye today called a press conference...
Sir Michael Somare: We Melanesians must make right choice on Papua
By Sir Michael Somare
The four Melanesian prime ministers of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji will come together in Honiara, Solomon Islands...
WJEC16: ‘Early bird’ arrivals start for global, Pacific journalism events
By Eddie Osifelo of the Solomon Star
More than 220 journalism educators and journalists are participating in the 4th World Journalism Education Congress that will...
Baron Waqa reelected in Nauru polls but Aiwo voting continues
Voting in Nauru's election continued today in the one remaining constituency of Aiwo with the incumbent President Baron Divavesi Waqa reelected decisively.
Both he and...
President Duterte’s war on crime: A nuclear explosion of violence
OPINION: By Atty. Jose Manuel "Chel" I. Diokno
President Duterte's war on crime in the Philippines has spawned a nuclear explosion of violence that is...