‘Staggering’ drop in PNG’s resource sector revenue hits development
By Glenn Banks and Martyn Namorong in Port Moresby
Government revenues from Papua New Guinea’s mining, oil and gas sector have essentially dried up.
With the...
Malcolm Evans – Neo-Israel
See solidarity article by Ramzy Baroud on Israeli-style apartheid
Indonesian police detain 49 in attack, vandalising of Papuan dormitory
By Bastian Tebai in Surabaya
Indonesian police last night arrested 49 Papuan students who live at the Kamasan Papuan Dormitory in the East Java provincial...
NZ teacher ‘superheroes’ call for a better deal in first strike...
Multimedia story by Leilani Sitagata in Auckland
About 30,000 primary and intermediate school teachers and principals went on strike for the first time in almost...
Dan McGarry: Fighting for media freedom and truth in the Pacific
When the host country Nauru banned the pool broadcaster, ABC, from the Pacific Islands summit set for next month, it was condemned widely for...
RSF calls on Nauru to allow banned ABC to cover Pacific...
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Nauru to rescind its decision to bar Australia’s public radio and TV broadcaster, ABC,...
Ralph Regenvanu: Pacific regionalism, climate finance and women in politics
Tess Newton Cain talks to Ralph Regenvanu
During a recent trip to Port Vila, Tess Newton Cain caught up with Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Foreign...
Mission accomplished: Why ‘blockade buster’ boats to Gaza still succeed
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud, recently in New Zealand
When Mike Treen, the national director of the Unite Union in New Zealand, arrived at the airport...
Graphic Fiji crash images highlight need for social media education
By Leilani Sitagata in Auckland
A viral spread of photos and videos from last week's fatal crash at Nabou has highlighted a need for education...
Protests over ‘captive’ photojournalist, Confucius film featured on 95bfm
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 95bfm Jemima Huston is joined by AUT Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie and reporter Rahul Bhattarai about the...
Eight die in Papua plane crash – teenager boy lone survivor
By Nethy Dharma Somba in Jayapura
A plane crashed in the mountainous Gunung Menuk area in Pegunungan Bintang regency of Indonesia's Papua province on Saturday,...
Nauru media ban on ABC targets Australian detention centre gag
There has been much wringing of hands over Nauru’s ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for next month’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit. But,...
Vanuatu names founding PM’s daughter Lora as Papua envoy
By the Vanuatu Independent
The Vanuatu government has appointed Lora Lini, daughter of founding prime minister Father Walter Lini, as special envoy for West Papua.
United...
PNG aims to ‘unlock potential’ by hosting APEC leaders summit
RNZ Live News video by Johnny Blades and Koroi Hawkins.
By Johnny Blades in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea is preparing to host the APEC (Asia...
Vanuatu seeks Forum support for West Papua, but kept off outcomes...
By Alexander Rheeney in Apia
Vanuatu has asked Pacific Islands Forum member states to support its resolution to the United Nations General Assembly next year...
Films about 1965 anti-communist stigma dominate Indonesian festival
The trailer for Eka Saputri's film Melawan Arus. Video: Komunitas Kedung
By Joko Santoso in Purbalingga
A short film by a student whose family were victims...
Torokina – a cryptocurrency with a dream to ‘rescue’ Papua New...
Cryptocurrencies are a controversial phenomenon that have risen from a technical experiment, with zero monetary value, to an industry with a combined market capitalisation...
New Caledonian independence ‘in their hearts’, but also a ‘scary’ future
Kanaks and long-time New Caledonian settlers get to vote on their future on November 4. But, as Michael Andrew of Asia Pacific Journalism points...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
Controversial ‘Confucius’ doco gets mixed response at NZ universities
In The Name Of Confucius trailer for the 52-minute documentary.
A Chinese government-sponsored cultural and education programme offers Mandarin lessons around the world. But a...