Duterte top state lawyer asks Supreme Court to shut ‘abusive’ media...
Solicitor-General Jose Calida has shocked media freedom defenders by filing a petition against the television network giant ABS-CBN barely a month before its franchise...
Canberra must ‘break silence’ over Papuan human rights, says AWPA
Pacific Media Watch
The Australian government should break its silence and raise human rights violations in West Papua with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo today,...
Tuwhera expands the PJR ‘critical inquiry’ Pacific media archive
A video made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pacific Journalism Review in 2014. Video: Sasya Wreksono/PMC
Pacific Media Watch
Tuwhera, the open access repository and...
Wuhan coronavirus: Citizen journalist Chen Qiushi on the epicentre frontline
BACKGROUNDER: By Oiwan Lam
Former human rights lawyer and famous citizen journalist Chen Qiushi arrived in Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on...
Wuhan coronavirus: 30 Pacific evacuees quarantined in NZ
By RNZ Pacific
Thirty Pacific islanders are being quarantined at a New Zealand military base, following their evacuation from China.
They are among 193 evacuees who...
NZ evacuates PNG students in Wuhan airlift – about 60 miss...
By RNZ News
About 60 people failed to board a New Zealand-led evacuation from China yesterday.
Nearly 200 people, mostly New Zealanders, were flown to Auckland...
Waitangi Day 2020: ‘Give us the courage to walk comfortably in...
The dawn service and following breakfast at Waitangi early today. Video: RNZ News
By Māni Dunlop in Waitangi
More than 2500 people gathered this morning at...
Accused Papuans ‘flew Morning Star flag’, police chief tells Jakarta court
By M Yusuf Manurung in Jakarta
An East Jakarta Metropolitan District police chief has given prosecution evidence at the trial this week of six Papuan...
France fails to uphold human rights of Tahiti prisoners, rules European...
By RNZ Pacific
France has been found guilty of breaching the human rights of prisoners in French Polynesia by treating them in a degrading manner.
The...
How will Wuhan coronavirus impact on political, global future of China?
Al Jazeera's Inside Story features the global coronavirus health emergency.
BACKGROUNDER: By Global Voices
What started at a seafood market as a local health issue...
PNG Media Council calls on state agencies to collaborate over virus
Pacific Media Watch
The Media Council of PNG has called on all state agencies involved in policing and securing the country's borders and people against...
NZ universities fear financial hit if students caught in virus travel...
By Harry Lock of RNZ News
New Zealand universities fear the temporary travel ban on foreigners from China due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is...
PNG students in Wuhan scared of coronavirus infection – call for...
By Benny Geteng in Rabaul
A Papua New Guinean student leader in the Chinese city of Wuhan says students fear for their lives with the...
NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death...
By RNZ News
A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will...
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous
By Denis Muller in Melbourne
In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking...
Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was...
Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages
By RNZ News
A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people...
RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Philippine parliamentarians to resist President Rodrigo Duterte’s threats and ensure the survival of ABS-CBN, the...
Coronavirus: NZ homestays reject Chinese students over virus fears
By RNZ News
Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus.
Infections from the novel coronavirus...
Coronavirus: Pacific Islands ‘fighting a war’ on epidemics
Video report by RNZ Pacific.
RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports
In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme...