Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern...
Pacific Media Watch
Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn...
Covid survey shows high anxiety and depression among Asian Kiwis
By Liu Chen, RNZ News reporter
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders, according...
Ten PNG women and girls killed in four years in gender-based...
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
About 10 women and girls in Port Moresby have become victims of gender-based violence and have ended their lives...
NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing,...
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow...
PNG women ‘as good as dead’ say protesters calling for tougher...
Pacific Media Watch
Protesters in Papua New Guinea and on social media have launched calls for tougher laws to protect women and girls from gender-based...
The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy
This is part of the front page of Papua New Guinea's The National this weekend. Normally we would not publish such a harrowing image...
Tragic life and death of Jenelyn – babysitter tells of PNG...
By EMTV News
Jenelyn Kennedy eloped with her partner at a tender age of 15, bore him his first child at age of 16, and...
PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...
USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other...
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva
The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in...
Wadan Narsey: BDO report is not ‘history’ for Pacific taxpayers
COMMENT: By Wadan Narsey
The current chair of USP Council, Winston Thompson, has airily dismissed media questions about the contents of the BDO Report, alleging...
Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on...
Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
From RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
On 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an Auckland wharf by two bombs...
Chinese businessmen ‘complied with quarantine measures’ – 10 PNG cases
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...
Forget Australia, open up to covid-free Pacific bubble, says Cook Islander
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand's "intransigence" over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up...
Make ‘secret’ BDO report and USP inquiries public, says Ratuva
By Nasik Swami in Suva
In the interest of transparency, the University of the South Pacific should make public the contents of the university’s "secret"...
Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim...
Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in...
EDITORIAL: By Jonathan Milne, editor, Cook Islands News
For the past few months, our Cook islands Parliamentarians have said repeatedly, “we’re all in this together”....
PNG Defence Force in lockdown over fears of coronavirus spread
Pacific Media Centre
PNG Defence Force soldiers are undergoing mass testing for covid-19 while there is controlled access into Murray Barracks to reduce further possible...
Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at...
By Apriza Pinandita in Jakarta
Indonesia has urged the international community to speak up and take decisive action against racial violence at a United Nations...
A Thousand Cuts wins best global feature at NZ’s Doc Edge...
By Rappler
A Thousand Cuts, Ramona Diaz’s documentary on democracy and press freedom in the Philippines, has won the top prize at the 2020 Doc...