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The challenges faced by working journalists in Samoa to ensure freedom of speech will be discussed in a presentation from a leading academic from...

The Pacific Islands Association of NGOs (PIANGO) executive director, Emele Duituturaga, has welcomed a call made by the World Council of Churches (WCC) for...

At least two crew members were killed and three others injured after an Indonesian army helicopter crashed in a village in the Yogyakarta district...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has denied making a deal with Rio Tinto to take up the Bougainville Copper Limited shares offloaded...

By Abeth You in Jayapura The student executive leader of the University of Cendewasih, Elius Wenda, has criticised the recruitment of students in the Institute...

By Veronika Kusumaryati and Cypri Dale Two events of highest significance in the context of global history of decolonisation are taking place in the Pacific: ...

On July 6 each year people gather to raise the Morning Star flag and to remember those who died in West Papua's Biak Massacre...

OPINION: Contributed by the Australian West Papua Association On the 2 July 1998, the West Papuan Morning Star flag was raised on top of a...

Prime Minister John Key will visit the United Kingdom and Europe next week for a series of bilateral meetings and to attend Bastille Day...

Shirley Shackleton, widow of journalist Greg Shackleton, one of the Balibo Five killed by Indonesian special forces at that Timorese border town of that...

By Glenda Willie in Port Vila Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has reportedly asked the chairman of the Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation board, Johnety Jerety,...

Story and video by Serah Aupong in Port Moresby The University of Papua New Guinea Council has suspended the 2016 Academic Year. The announcement of the...

The independent blog PNG Mine Watch was originally established to track the progress of the Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea,...

Bougainville's president and Meekamu landowner chiefs have condemned the Rio Tinto "mess" over Panguna mine and the traditional landowners have called for the company...

By Bastian Tebai in Yogyakarta Every year July 1 is commemorated by Papuans as West Papua proclamation day. The proclamation was read out at the...

By Haeril Halim in Jakarta and Margareth S. Aritonang in Oslo As a third round of executions nears, Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has commemorated...

National Broadcasting Corporation News of Papua New Guinea video report by Bradley Gregory on PNG Tonight. Two of the most renowned cultural centres in the...

By Fatu Tauafiafi in Pape'ete Leaders and officials of the Polynesian Leaders Group gathered today in Pape'ete, Tahiti, in a special conference to follow-up on...

Australian-supported Indonesian police special forces have shot dead a teenage Papuan high school student in central Nabire city, West Papua, reports West Papua Media. The...

Papua New Guinea's government has appointed retired judge Justice Warwick Andrew as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate recent violence at...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu's Public Service Commission is forbidding government workers from accessing social media, Radio Vanuatu News reports today. This was decided...

By Yeremia Sukoyo in Jakarta Indonesia's Minister of Land and Spatial Planning Ferry Mursyidan Baldan has declared the government's recognition of communal rights of nine...