Surge in Māori virus testing but some NZ district health boards...
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, Māori affairs correspondent of RNZ News
There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for the covid-19 coronavirus...
Indonesia helping PNG citizen repatriations from West Papua
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby
Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the...
Woman living in Northern Ireland becomes Timor’s first covid-19 fatality
By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili
Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first...
Journalism educators call for action after new Duterte attack on free...
Pacific Media Watch
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has called on the Australian government to make strong diplomatic representations to Philippine...
Moore’s environmental documentary storm – the truth behind the claims
ANALYSIS: By Ian Lowe of Griffith University
Documentary maker Michael Moore’s latest offering, Planet of the Humans, rightly argues that infinite growth on a...
International students may be allowed into NZ before border opens
By Jane Patterson is political editor of RNZ News
New Zealand may allow international students to come to this country under quarantine conditions, before the...
Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s "shocking murder" of an...
PNG judge condemns ‘brutality’ of rogue acts by disciplinary forces
Pacific Media Centre
Offences perpetrated by members of Papua New Guinea's disciplinary forces have become prevalent in the country during the coronavirus pandemic, says National...
Pacific governments accused of using virus crisis to cover media crackdown
ANALYSIS: By David Robie of the Pacific Media Centre/Te Amokura, Auckland University of Technology
As fears grow over vulnerability to the coronavirus in parts of...
Pressure on Beaumont to investigate homophobic slurs by Fiji rugby chief
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The pressure goes on re-elected World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont to investigate Fiji Rugby Union chief...
Two new coronavirus cases in New Zealand – one further death
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported two new cases of covid-19 in the coronavirus pandemic in the past 24 hours and one further death,...
Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter
Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand's Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National...
Top Philippines TV network told to close under Duterte pressure
By Filipe F. Salvosa II in Manila
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) today issued a cease-and-desist order against ABS-CBN Corporation, the major television broadcaster in...
PNG media suffers ‘overwhelming deference’, says freedom report
The Samoa Observer media freedom video, Journalism Without Fear or Favour.
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea's two daily newspapers...
Trans-Tasman bubble – Ardern hopeful of eased travel ‘when safe’
By RNZ News
The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have agreed to ease travel restrictions between the two countries as soon as it is...
It’s all about trust – and why I trust Jacinda over...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
After nearly five weeks of alert level 4 covid-19 lockdown and a...
Pukekohe community midwife a ‘local hero’ for the whānau
By Mark Hanson of Counties-Manukau Health
Vomiting while helping birth a baby on the police launch Deodar while it was being tossed around in turbulent...
Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say...
By RNZ News
The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report...
Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep...
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News
Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index.
In last year's index, compiled...
West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent
A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...