Staff, students back USP academic chief amid tension over allegations
By Wansolwara staff
A "fight for justice and good governance" at the University of the South Pacific has continued as staff and students have echoed...
NZ police scrapping Armed Response Teams after trial, says commissioner
By RNZ News
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced today that Armed Response Teams will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the...
Ramos-Horta slams criminal libel plan – threat to rights in Timor-Leste
By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
Former East Timorese President José Ramos-Horta says it is not opportune for the government to be debating the possible criminalisation...
Bryan Bruce: Why I have run out of words – and...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
Every time I wrote a sentence to describe the slow motion collision of social, economic and political forces that are simultaneously...
Mong Palatino: Cyber trolling targets opposition against Duterte’s Terror Bill
COMMENT: By Mong Palatino in Manila
The proliferation of fake Facebook accounts in the Philippines is meant to derail the growing public opposition against the...
New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight
By RNZ News
"Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1.
The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...
USP vice-chancellor told to ‘step aside’, committee member resigns in protest
By Edwin Nand in Suva
The University of the South Pacific's vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, a Canadian, has been told to step down to allow...
Vanuatu media group condemns ‘intimidation’ of woman journalist
By RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's media advocacy group Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV) has condemned what it calls intimidation of a local journalist by airport security...
USP students, staff call on council to drop ‘harassment’ of Ahluwalia
By Soli Wilson in Apia
A power struggle at the University of the South Pacific is continuing despite students and staff warning that it now...
Southern Cross: Buyout offer saves AAP and gives Pacific a breather
Pacific Media Watch
A reprieve for the newsagency Australian Associated Press (AAP) is featured today on Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross segment on Radio 95bFM.
An...
NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases...
By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...
Pacific media react with relief over proposed sale reprieve for AAP
By Jade Bradford in Perth
News that Australian Associated Press has been saved is being welcomed by media outlets in socially and culturally complex Pacific...
In publishing Tom Cotton, The New York Times has made a...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
When a newspaper with the authority of The New York Times chooses to publish a party-political...
Thousands rally across Australia to protest against Indigenous deaths
By RNZ News
Thousands of people were protesting across Australia today to oppose the deaths of Indigenous people in police custody.
It comes as Black Lives...
PNG police investigate cellphone death threats against Lae city chief
By Jeremy Mogi in Lae
Papua New Guinea police are investigating death threats against Lae City Authorit chief executive Neil Ellery.
The threats were sent by...
‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...
Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Three cartoonists had especially poignant takes on the tragic and toxic political aftermath of martyr George Floyd’s brutal killing...
TAPOL condemns prosecutor push for heavy sentences for ‘uprising activists’
Human rights watchdog TAPOL has condemned the demand by Indonesian prosecutors seeking 17 and five years imprisonment for West Papuan activists Buchtar Tabuni and...
Airport security force Vanuatu journo to delete repatriation photos
Pacific Media Watch
A Vanuatu Daily Post journalist was forced to delete all photos of a repatriation aircraft’s arrival in Port Vila from New Zealand,...
Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil...




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