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...
Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
The Pacific community has contributed immensely to New Zealand's economy - but that isn't the only contribution, says a leading development studies...
Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay
By RNZ Pacific
Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say...
Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St...
Fiji women have confidence that their gender in politics will hear...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
The role of women in every segment of society is vital and this is slowly been reflected through more women...
Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace
By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta
Six Greenpeace activists have reportedly been detained by the captain of the tanker Stolt Tenacity for staging a rally...
Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes
A look at the lives of Pacific Islanders who choose to ignore or struggle to embrace their heritage. Video: Plastic Polynesia trailer
By Leilani Sitagata
Two...
2018 Fiji elections – the ‘fake news’ catchphrase of this poll...
By Sri Krishnamurthi
“Fake News” was the catch phrase of the 2018 Fiji Elections – the second democratic elections since Commodore, now Prime Minister, Voreqe...
APEC 2018 dominated by US-China trade war – no agreement reached
Speeches made by US Vice-President Mike Pence and Chinese President Xi Jinping to the APEC delegates during the leaders summit in Port Moresby at...
‘The people have spoken’ – Fiji Times comments on a...
EDITORIAL COMMENT: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
Yesterday marked the end of the 2018 Fiji General Election.
It marked the end of a...
FijiFirst wins Fiji election after tightly contested race – awarded 27...
By Wansolwara Staff
It’s official. FijiFirst has narrowly won the 2018 general election in Fiji, raking in 227,241 votes (50.02 percent) from 2173 stations counted...
FijiFirst wins second four-year term in office in Fiji general election
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's FijiFirst party has triumphed in the general election and will govern for a second four-year term after...
PNG governor may block Australian naval base bid on Manus
By RNZ Pacific
The governor of Papua New Guinea's Manus Province has hinted that he could obstruct Australia's bid to build a naval port on...
Fiji’s elections chief Saneem slams 4 political parties – counting on...
By Wansolwara Staff
Fiji's Supervisor of Elections has hit out at four political parties for making claims that the tabulation process for the provisional results...