NZ welcomes new Boe Pacific security plus climate declaration
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is describing the newly signed Boe Declaration as the most significant statement on regional security by...
Police arrest 45 at Jayapura rally plea for PIF to raise...
Arrested Papuan self-determination protesters in Jayapura this week. Image: Tabloid Jubi
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
Indonesian police have arrested scores of protesters at a demonstration...
Pacific Island leaders tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent
ANALYSIS: The three-hour "detention" of television New Zealand Pacific affairs reporter Barbara Dreaver for "breaking protocols" over interviewing refugees on Nauru. But Josef Benedict...
Stick to our Forum visa rules, Nauru warns media via Twitter
By RNZ Pacific
The Nauru government has taken to Twitter to warn journalists they are not above the law as they cover the Pacific Islands...
Media freedom commentators condemn Nauru ‘gag’ actions
By RNZ Morning Report
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived today for the leader's retreat at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru where she...
Pacific student uncertainties over climate impact outweighs Fiji poll
Climate change issues seem to loom larger than the impending Fiji general election in the minds of University of the South Pacific students. Pacific...
Pacific Islands Forum masking Nauru human rights abuse, says advocate
By RNZ Pacific
A refugee advocate says behind the scenes of the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru human rights abuses are continuing.
Ian Rintoul from the...
TVNZ Pacific reporter released after being detained in Nauru
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver tells media of her three-hour detention by Nauru police after interviewing a refugee today. She was stripped...
Nauru authorities detain TVNZ Pacific reporter for interviewing refugee
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand journalist Barbara Dreaver has been detained by authorities in Nauru while covering the Pacific Islands Forum summit, reports Television New...
RSF condemns jail terms for two Myanmar journalists in ‘sham trial’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the seven-year prison sentences imposed on two Reuters reporters in the Myanmar city of Yangon yesterday...
Climate change, disasters feature in joint Indonesia-NZ media journal
By Rahul Bhattarai
A local Indonesian community leader has praised the co-publication of a climate change and disasters edition of Pacific Journalism Review launched at...
Peters announces NZ$10m boost to fund dedicated Pacific TV channel
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand will spend $NZ10 million in the next three years on a Pasifika television channel for the region.
The Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting...
Fiji media laws aren’t so draconian, says former MIDA chief
The Fiji media laws aren’t as draconian as they are perceived – if one follows rules - Asia Pacific Report's Sri Krishnamurthi was told...
Meet Sia, a Kiwi Korean culture and social media lover
By Leilani Sitagata in Auckland
Sia Caldwell made a big shift across the ocean at the start of this year to South Korea to teach...
From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
Nauru hosts the Pacific Islands Forum -- whose membership includes Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific Islands nations -- from...
Nauru faces media, security pressure ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
Nauru President Baron Waqa addressing the media before opening the Pacific Islands Forum. Video: PI Forum Secretariat
By Gia Garrick, Political Reporter of RNZ National
Regional...
Sedition, coup-era media law and nerves keep lid on Fiji press
With the date for this year’s second Fiji general election since the 2006 coup yet to be announced, one of the questions is will...
NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark
By Jessica Marshall in Auckland
The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...
Gallery: Stimulating insights, vision for gender diversity summit
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is the new patron for the National Council of Women and she shared her...
NZ offer still open for taking 150 refugees, says PM Ardern
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reaffirmed her country’s offer to take 150 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island...