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PMC students score well in AUT’s annual media awards
Pacific Media Centre affiliated students and graduates have won several prizes at the annual School of Communication Studies awards night at Auckland University of...
AUT Communication Studies Awards – the winners
School of Communication Studies award winners 2016:
School of Communication Studies Award for Top Student in the Certificate in Communication Studies: Joshua Katz
School of Communication...
Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge
REVIEW: By Dr Wayne Hope
It can’t have been easy for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and their political leaders to deny the results...
Hit & Run reply: This is what a military cover-up looks...
By Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson
The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating presented the NZ Defence Force response to the book Hit &...
Educator calls for less ‘tick-box teaching’ and more creativity
Professor Welby Ings ... talking "disobedient thinking" at TedxAuckland in 2013, some of the ideas underpinning his new book. Video: TedxTalks
Despite being expelled from...
Church supports ‘concrete feet’ environment protest in Jakarta
The church in Indonesia has lent its weight behind an ongoing demonstration outside the presidential palace by Javanese farmers protesting against the establishment of...
Prominent opposition Indonesian journalist Ahmad Taufik dies
Prominent Indonesian journalist Ahmad Taufik has died after an illness in Jakarta. He was 51.
Taufik, known as an opposition journalist during President Suharto’s dictatorship,...
Environmental damage, social conflicts overshadow Indonesia’s palm oil future
By Ratri M. Siniwi and Muham in Jakarta
Palm oil is an important commodity for Indonesia's economy, contributing US$17.8 billion, or about 12 percent, to...
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls: Feminists face shrinking spaces at UN
COMMENT: By Sharon Bhagwan Rolls in New York
Pacific -- and global -- feminists are facing challenging times this week in New York with efforts...
Indonesia steps up fight against foreign research biopiracy
By Hans Nicholas Jong and Moses Ompusunggu in Jakarta
Though it may sound like a conspiracy theory, the Indonesian government has taken seriously allegations that...
Asia Pacific Report tribute to Teresia Teaiwa – thanks to Tagata...
Dr Teresia Teaiwa featured in a Tagata Pasifika video when winning the Manukau Institute of Technology Pacific Education Award prize at the SunPix Pacific...
NZ climate change protesters blockade oil conference in Taranaki
Climate change protesters blockaded the Petroleum Summit in the New Zealand city of New Plymouth today where the government was expected to announce the...
CAFCA calls on NZ to ‘pull the plug’ on American Empire
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) says it is time for New Zealand to pull the plug and to finish the business...
Former guerrillas dominate Timor-Leste’s presidential election
People in Timor-Leste went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president. Their choice was between eight candidates with former guerrilla fighter Francisco...
Supreme Court gives green light to PNG to deport 166 non-refugees
PNG's National Planning Minister Charles Abel has called on the Australian government to work with Papua New Guinea to facilitate the closing of the...
Not enough funds for HIV/AIDS advocacy, says PNG cardinal
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
Lack of funds hampers addressing issues faced by the increasing number of people living with HIV in Papua New...
‘Polynesian soul’ – schools, performers and diversity on show at Polyfest
Six stages, four days, 214 groups from more than 60 schools, 10,000 performers and up to 40,000 spectators ... The four-day festival of Māori,...
Timber firm accused over Indonesian threat to last orangutan strongholds
By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...
Kava industry bounces back after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Kava export returns in 2015 after Tropical Cyclone Pam devastated parts of Vanuatu as it trekked through the country...
Cardinal Ribat calls on PNG churches to ‘work together’ over HIV
EMTV News reports on the HIV Summit in Port Moresby and other Papua New Guinean news.
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
The first HIV Summit...
Iranian refugee Sawari’s PNG trial deferred to end of month
EMTV News report of the court hearing in Port Moresby yesterday.
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
The trial against Iranian refugee Loghman Sawari, who fled...
PISAN Fono big winner with Pacific and Timor-Leste scholars
By Michelle Curran in Auckland
Ten years ago, Tonga’s Kisione Manu was studying a Bachelor of Science at Palmerston North-based Massey University on a New...































































