France tax rebate to boost New Caledonia’s AirCalin airliner fleet
By RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's international airline, AirCalin, has been given tax rebates by France to buy two new Airbus airliners.
The French High Commission in...
Democracy and media freedom – the paradoxes of Fiji, Kanaky
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre has wrapped up the academic year with a seminar dedicated to democracy and media freedom in the...
Pacific aid mapping tool aimed at improving transparency in region
By Sri Krishnamurthi
A new Pacific aid mapping tool developed by the Lowy Institute think tank is set to immeasurably improve transparency in aid in...
Stop harassing Rappler, media advocacy groups tell Duterte
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have written a joint open letter to the prosecutor-general of...
Trauma research on TV journalists covering killings revealed in Pacific Journalism...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately.
Revelations in...
Nauru, PNG join Fiji in global ‘obstructed’ freedoms watchlist
Six in 10 countries now seriously repressing civic freedoms, according to findings in the latest Civicus Monitor, a global research collaboration tracking fundamental freedoms...
Scott Waide reinstated – ‘thank you’ message from EMTV journalist
COMMENT: By Scott Waide, in an open letter posted on his blog after he was reinstated by EMTV today following suspension for broadcasting an...
PM blames Bougainville missing budget on ‘administrative error’
By RNZ Pacific
The Bougainville President, John Momis, says he has been assured by Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, that the absence of...
Bryan Kramer: Who was culprit behind O’Neill government revenge on Waide?
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, MP for Madang
Papua New Guinea's O'Neill government has taken revenge against senior EMTV Reporter Scott Waide, who was suspended over...
PNG Media Council says bring back Waide – stop attacking free...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Media Council of PNG has called on the board and management of Media Niugini
Limited to allow senior EMTV journalist Scott...
Open letter from MP for Wabag: EMTV move ‘dictatorship before our...
OPINION: By Dr Lino Jeremaih Tom, MP for Wabag
The suspension of EMTV deputy news editor Scott Waide has brought us to a new low...
EMTV suspends senior journalist Scott Waide over NZ Maserati news story
The Maserati item from New Zealand's Newshub screened on EMTV News on 17 November 2018.
By Vincent Moses in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinean state-owned...
Banabans of Rabi student doco given Tongan film festival premiere
The trailer for Banabans of Rabi on the Pacific Media Centre YouTube page.
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Banabans of Rabi – A story of Survival,...
Mary-Louise O’Callaghan: Time we heard the Pacific’s take on the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
It is both apt and overdue that veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney was last night awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism...
Scott Waide: PNGFM news boss calls for investigations, penalties for troops...
Scott Waide's blog highlights an open letter by Genesis Ketan, director of news, PNGFM:
As director of News for PNGFM, I am very disappointed at...
Fire destroys communications building at USP’s Fiji campus
By Wansolwara staff in Suva
Staff and students at the University of the South Pacific in Suva could only look on in shock after a...
Couple remanded in big Vanuatu human trafficking, slavery case
By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the...
RSF condemns Chinese exclusion of journalists at APEC side events
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the discrimination practised by the Chinese delegation against local and international media at the summit...
Nuku’alofa Film Festival launches with documentary dedicated to leiti struggle
By Blessen Tom in Nuku'alofa
Leitis in Waiting, a feature documentary, launched the fourth Nuku'alofa International Film Festival 2018 at the Digicel Square in Nuku'alofa,...
‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea came under attack yesterday as angry police and corrections officers stormed into Parliament Haus and destroyed the...