Labour claims USP vice-chancellor ‘denied justice’ in clean up drive
By Luke Nacei in Suva
The Fiji Labour Party believes suspended University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia is being harassed for his...
Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter
COMMENT: By Evi Mariani in Jakarta
The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have...
Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: The desecration of Oceania’s sacred place of learning
COMMENTARY: By Tarcisius Kabutaulaka in Honolulu
The current leadership crisis at the University of the South Pacific is worrying and must be sorted out. That...
Pacific Update: Brutal domestic assault in PNG, ongoing USP leadership crisis
PACIFIC UPDATE: By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ's Pacific correspondent
There has been shock and revulsion in Papua New Guinea after a video emerged of a military...
Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary.
Temaru, mayor...
Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the...
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, RNZ Māori News Correspondent
The future of the flagship Māori news show Te Karere is on the line as the New...
Pacific leaders call for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse
By Wansolwara staff
Pacific leaders are echoing strong calls for USP Council members to work together to resolve the ongoing challenges currently faced by the...
Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office...
Civil society advocates condemn Fiji police ‘intimidation’ of USP students
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights today condemned police for it called heavy-handed intimidation of students and staff at the regional University...
USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student...
By Katrina Tanirau in Avarua
Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala...
Suspension of USP’s academic head ‘legal’ claims pro-chancellor
By Wansolwara staff
The decision to suspend the academic chief of the University of the South Pacific pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations...
Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital
Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large.
A...
Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for special meeting on...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, is the latest figure to...
Media rights groups protest against Timor’s draft defamation law
Pacific Media Watch
Timor-Leste's Minister of Justice plans to present to the Council of Ministers a proposal to include criminal defamation in the country’s penal...
Secret report reveals widespread salary and allowance rorts at USP
By Michael Field in Islands Business
Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit...
Fiji suspension move against USP chief ‘nonsense’, says Samoan deputy PM
By Soli Wilson in Apia
Trouble continues to brew at the University of the South Pacific with the suspension of the vice-chancellor and President, Professor...
Fiji denies allegations of takeover at regional USP as criticisms mount
By Lena Reece in Suva
The Fiji government has denied allegations being levelled against it of trying to "nationalise" the 12-nation University of the South...
Journalist reports on USP payments scandal as campus backs reform VC
Pacific Media Watch
After three days of protests by hundreds of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific over the treatment...
Albert Schram: University governance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the...
ANALYSIS: By Albert Schram
This article attempts to put the current governance crisis at the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific (USP), one of only...
NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month...



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