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...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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”....

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...

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...

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...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand's coronavirus reality check last week is a "timely wake-up call" crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in Mā'ohi (French Polynesia) and for Oscar Temaru, the activist mayor...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government has announced a ninth covid-19 case in the country, and this has since been confirmed by...

By Litia Cava in Suva University of the South Pacific staff say they are happy with the USP Council’s decision to reinstate Professor Pal Ahluwalia...