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PNG Minister for Information and Communications Technology Timothy Masiu

Telecommunications

PNG Communications Minister calls for media to ‘protect, preserve Pacific identity’

July 8, 2024

Starlink has become or is becoming available around the Pacific

Telecommunications

Pacific nations gradually embracing Elon Musk’s Starlink

NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins

Telecommunications

Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says PM

Hunga-Ha’apai and Hunga-Tonga erupting in Tonga

Telecommunications

Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disaster

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Telecommunications

Fiji sacks PR consultants Qorvis Communications and Vatis

Huawei to build 161 telecommunication towers

Telecommunications

Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network

August 23, 2022

Vodafone in new look Digitec operation

Telecommunications

Vodafone in new ‘price cutting’ bid for PNG’s mobile phone market

April 7, 2022

The International Criminal Court in The Hague

Telecommunications

RSF refers Russian strikes on four Ukrainian TV towers for ICC...

March 6, 2022

Digicel Tonga’s technical team working on satellite link equipment

Telecommunications

Covering Tonga’s volcano eruption – without communications

Pacific Media Watch -

February 3, 2022

Workers load the HMAS Adelaide with supplies for Tonga

Telecommunications

‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official

January 23, 2022

Tonga Communications Corporation

Telecommunications

Eruption renews debate on lack of backup for Tongan communications

January 18, 2022

Tonga's undersea cable repairs needed

Telecommunications

Tonga’s undersea communications cable could take weeks to repair

January 18, 2022

Tongan geologists view the Hunga eruption

Telecommunications

Tongan volcanic eruption reveals the vulnerabilities in global telecommunications

January 18, 2022

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Telecommunications

No reports of deaths in Tongan volcano tsunami, says NZ prime...

January 16, 2022

Professor Biman Prasad

Telecommunications

Prasad warns Fiji government will end 2021 as ‘laughing stock’ over...

January 1, 2022

Suva lawyer and media commentator Richard Naidu

Telecommunications

Consumer demand should be driving TV to digital platform – ‘not...

December 24, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg

Telecommunications

Facebook has pulled the trigger on news content — and possibly...

February 20, 2021

NZ Reserve Bank

Telecommunications

Reserve Bank investigates cyber attack – latest in NZ digital breaches

January 11, 2021

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Telecommunications

PM defends temporary suspension of Facebook until new law in place

November 23, 2020

MP James Donald

Telecommunications

PNG parliamentarian faces cyber crime charges over K250m Ok Tedi claim

Pacific Media Watch -

August 21, 2020

Telecommunications

Jakarta files appeal against court’s ruling on Papua internet blackout

Pacific Media Watch -

June 21, 2020

Telecommunications

Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel in Philippines

Pacific Media Watch -

June 15, 2020

Telecommunications

Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules

Pacific Media Watch -

June 4, 2020

BS-CBN supporters

Telecommunications

Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure

University of Santo Tomas Journalism -

May 6, 2020

BAKTI at Pacific 2019 Expo

Telecommunications

Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...

July 16, 2019

Telecommunications

Tonga’s communications blackout ‘a problem out of their control’

Pacific Media Watch -

January 24, 2019

Tongan Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pōhiva

Telecommunications

Tongasat’s appeal aimed at hindering suing former PMs, says Pōhiva

October 27, 2018

CLIMATE AND COVID

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Stephanie Sageo-Tapungu

Climate

How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action

Dr Collin Tukuitonga

Analysis

Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change

BEARING WITNESS

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Fijian newsrooms are embracing the digital shift

Asia Pacific Journalism

Fiji’s mainstream media fight for survival in social media era

NFP president Parmod Chand (left) and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry

Democracy

NFP president slams Labour leader for ‘hallucinating’ about Fiji governance

A West Papuan protest against the Indonesian "new neocolonial" transmigration plan

Asia Report

Plea to bar Prabowo from UK as Indonesian security forces crack...

Security forces watch from behind barbed wire as indigenous Papuans from Merauke in the Indonesia-ruled Melanesian region protest

Agriculture

Survey warning on Papua ‘box ticking’ mega estates project goes unheeded

EDITOR'S PICKS

The author, Joe Hendren, stands in Martyr's Square, Beruit

Analysis

Kia kaha Lebanon: NZ media only tell half your story of...

Professor Mohamad Elmasry

Asia Report

Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst

ACT leader David Seymour and former prime minister Jenny Shipley

Civil Society

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley

Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke led a haka in Parliament after the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill

Civil Society

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and...

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Symbols of "decolonisation'

Civil Society

Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global...

Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles

Asia Report

Kiwi pilot kidnapping in West Papua leads to police raids in...

Arwa Damon, founder of the medical nonprofit INARA, speaks from Deir al-Balah in Gaza

Asia Report

‘It’s a complete and total nightmare’ – aid worker speaks about...

Security forces watch from behind barbed wire as indigenous Papuans from Merauke in the Indonesia-ruled Melanesian region protest

Agriculture

Survey warning on Papua ‘box ticking’ mega estates project goes unheeded