Are US and Iran headed for a military showdown before Trump...
ANALYSIS: By Clive Williams, Australian National University
Tensions are running high in the Middle East in the waning days of the Trump administration.
Over the weekend,...
RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the January 4 ruling of UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to block the United...
China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...
ANALYSIS: By James Laurenceson, University of Technology Sydney
Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years. But covid-19 has turbo-charged the...
Covid-19 ‘might get more intense’ across world in coming weeks, warns...
By RNZ News
The new covid-19 variant found in the UK is set to become more prevalent across the world due to its more transmissible...
Resolution of human rights violation cases in Papua ‘has deteriorated’
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The enforcement of human rights and the resolution of various cases of human rights violations in Papua in 2020 has...
Waikeria Prison protesters surrender to NZ authorities after 6-day siege
By RNZ News
The 16 protesters at Waikeria Prison have surrendered to authorities after a six-day stand-off.
The news that the men had ended the stand-off...
Amnesty calls for caution in ending NZ’s Waikeria prison protest
By RNZ News
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand's Corrections Minister to ensure force is not used to end the impasse at Waikeria Prison...
Award-winning editor of Samoa Observer resigns after 22 years
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Award-winning editor Mata'afa Keni Lesa is moving on from the Samoa Observer after 22 years, reports Samoa Global News.
Mata’afa Keni Lesa...
Former Rappler reporter Carmela Fonbuena is new head of PCIJ
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has named former Rappler reporter and book author Carmela Fonbuena as its next executive...
Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae
Dear Prime Minister Marape
Our government has to admit the fact that there is a glaring imbalance between Papua New...
PNG authorities slammed over ‘lack of control’ on alluvial mining
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
A concerned Papua New Guinean woman leader and NGO activist, Matilda Koma, has called on the Central provincial government...
A belated Papua Christmas morning story from Nduga’s internal refugees
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
"Merry Christmas, 25 December 2020," says the graffiti displayed in the yard of the Nduga student dormitory in the study...
At the heart of the Goilala landslide disaster – prayers for the...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Central Governor Robert Agorobe at Saki, Papua New Guinea
It was with a heavy heart when we flew into the landslide disaster...
RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive...
New Year’s Honours: Former boxing champion among 13 Pacific recipients
By RNZ Pacific
Playwrights, teachers, reverends, advocates, athletes and a former boxer are among the 13 Pacific people who have received New Year's Honours, a...
Bad weather hampers PNG landslide relief – two bodies found,...
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
Bad weather has delayed the second relief supplies drop to Papua New Guinea's landslide victims at Saki village near...
Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...
By Rebecca Kuku in Kerema
Gulf Province is only six hours away from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital city, and is one of the...
Thousands still in evacuation centres in Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Yasa
By RNZ Pacific
More than 4000 people are still in evacuation centres in Fiji nearly two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck.
Relief supplies are getting...
AJI slams sharp rise in violence against Indonesian journalists – 84...
By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta
Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) chairperson Abdul Manan says there has been a sharp rise of cases of violence against...
Landslide claims 13 lives at Tolukuma mine in PNG’s Central province
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby
A huge landslide has buried a long hut with 13 people asleep inside at the foot of the Tolukuma...