Vanuatu plans cyber crime law to target Facebook ‘false claims’
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai, the Minister responsible for Telecommunications, has informed Parliament that a cyber crime bill currently being developed will address the...
Elisabeth Holland: Pacific climate change persistence – we’re all in the...
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre spearheading climate change research believes in working together for shared solutions, says Professor Elisabeth Holland. Video:...
Presidential hopeful Prabowo urges people to accept election bribes
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) chairperson Prabowo Subianto is encouraging people accept electoral bribes if they are offered basic commodities (sembako)...
Timor-Leste president to make first official visit to Indonesia
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Timor-Leste President Francisco Guterres will make his first official overseas visit to Indonesia this week, reports Antara news agency.
President Guterres will...
Uneasy calm in PNG’s Highlands as O’Neill sends in massive force
BRIEFING: By Keith Jackson
This week turned out to be one of those only too frequent turbulent periods in Papua New Guinea when you never...
Duterte says as ‘parent of nation,’ he can order detention of...
By Pia Ranada in Manila
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has cited the power of the state to act as parents of persons needing...
China takes up Australia’s former radio frequencies in Pacific
By RNZ Pacific
China has taken over many of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's former shortwave radio frequencies into the Pacific.
In response to budget cuts, the...
Chinese president meets PNG’s O’Neill, pledging ‘deepening cooperation’
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill in Beijing. Image: CCTV+
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Chinese President Xi Jinping has met Papua...
Reviving the ‘lost skills’ of traditional waka Pacific voyaging
Waka (or va'a) voyager and environmental advocate Schannel van Dijken talks about the Pacific and Samoan ocean sailing traditions and the challenges of climate...
Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire...
Former military chief warns PNG soldiers could be ‘outgunned’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Papua New Guinea military commander has warned that he is "concerned, if not frightened" that the PNG Defence Force...
Mendi community leaders welcome emergency state in PNG ‘wake up call’
Southern Highlands community leaders talk about the post-election crisis in their province. Video: EMTV News
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Community leaders from the troubled Southern Highlands...
Caribbean researcher tells of her work with NZ migrant community
Anabel Fernandez-Santana and Dr Camille Nakhid in the AUT research video.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Anabel Fernandez-Santana, who has been awarded an vice-chancellor’s scholarship at Auckland...
Bernhard Marjen: West Papuan journalist and ex-policeman
OBITUARY: By Sincha Damara in Port Moresby
Bernhard Marjen was born in 1955 in Sorido, a village on the island of Biak on the West...
PNG troops arrive in Mendi – PM and politicians apologise for...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 100 Papua New Guinea soldiers from Taurama Barracks First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment arrived in the Southern Highlands capital...
Frustrated PNG tribesmen capture 2 policemen – seize vehicles, weapons
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Two Papua New Guinean police vehicles travelling from Hagen to Hela in the Highlands after servicing were fired on today in...
PNG opposition demands PM O’Neill resign over Mendi torching riot
Oro Governor Gary Juffa speaks during the Opposition demand for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's resignation. Video: EMTV News
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Papua New Guinea's Opposition...
Kontras urges Jokowi to resolve Papuan Wasior human rights case
By Karina M. Tehusijarana in Jakarta
Indonesia's Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to take concrete...
O’Neill imposes PNG curfew, vows arrests in wake of Mendi torchings
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Papua New Guinea authorities have imposed a 6pm to 6am curfew in the Southern Highlands provincial capital of Mendi to prevent...
Protesters in PNG’s Highlands torch plane, shut Mendi airport
By RNZ Pacific
Protesters in the Papua New Guinea Southern Highlands town of Mendi have torched a plane and closed the airport.
Earlier, the local police...