PNG Facebook ban threat casts shadow over Pacific media freedom
Papua New Guinea threatened to temporarily ban Facebook earlier this year. With the APEC conference looming in November, the question remains whether this was...
ABC’s shortwave cutback ‘weakens thin link’ for Pacific, says PMC
By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s cutback in services to the Asia-Pacific region has “weakened the thin link” that many...
Norwegian human rights activists call for action over Israeli ‘capture’ of...
Norwegian citizen Jan Petter Hammervold, 74, makes a ship-recorded plea before being seized by Israeli forces. He was ship’s cook on board Al Awda...
PNG facelifts for APEC but neglects gender-based violence
The Papua New Guinean government has been working tirelessly to clean up its capital city in preparation for APEC, instead of attending to serious...
NZ Pacific journalists ‘appalled’ by Nauru ban on ABC at Forum
The ABC has a reputation for vigorous reporting of Pacific issues, including human rights violations at the Australian-established Nauru detention centre for asylum seekers....
Radio 531pi’s Brian Sagala talks nuke-free Pacific with David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie.
"It...
Tourists flee Lombok as Indonesian quake death toll hits 98
Rescuers are still struggling to get to parts of Lombok island to assess the full extent of the damage from the earthquake. Video: Al...
Indonesian officials ruin Australian researcher’s honeymoon over Papua
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An Australian doctoral researcher whose honeymoon plans in Indonesia included a cultural festival in the insecure Papua region has been deported...
Dr Swee Ang: We can’t accept this – speak up against...
Dr Swee Ang’s “SOS” call broadcast from the Al Awda as the boat was being hijacked in international waters last week. (Poor quality audio...
Death toll in Indonesia’s Lombok quake rises to 91
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The death toll in a powerful magnitude-7 earthquake which rocked Lombok and Sumbawa Islands in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province last...
Papuans protest over ‘Act of Free Choice’ in 13 cities in...
By Kustin Ayuwuragil and Ramadhan Rizki in Jakarta
Papuans have launched protest actions in 13 cities across Indonesia to demonstrate against the so-called "Act of...
‘Blacklisted’ Australian researcher detained in Indonesian airport
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An Australian-based doctoral media researcher says she has been "blacklisted" by Indonesian authorities and refused entry to the country while embarking...
Shortwave radio saves lives and foreign aid dollars, says McGarry
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Vanuatu has appealed to Australia to restore shortwave radio services to the Pacific region, after they were switched off by the...
Elizabeth Cox: Bring back a revitalised Radio Australia to all rural...
Submissions to the Australian Review of Broadcasting Services to Asia-Pacific closed yesterday. Development worker Elizabeth Cox made this public submission to the review panel...
Indonesian influence in the Pacific grows, brushing aside West Papua
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific in Wellington
Indonesia's influence in the Pacific Islands is growing, but is shadowed by disquiet over its region of...
Rapa Nui activist calls for rigorous curb on ‘flouting’ of migration...
By RNZ Pacific
An indigenous activist on Chile's Rapa Nui says new rules restricting internal migration to the island need to be rigorously enforced.
Non-Rapa...
Tasered, beaten, handcuffed but Mike Treen says ‘I would do it...
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Unite Union national director Mike Treen arrived in Auckland today and told of his brutal experience at the hands of...
Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Unite union leader Mike Treen, seized and detained by Israeli security forces last weekend along with other human rights campaigners bound...
PNG pledges boost for Bougainville local radio before referendum
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea is pledging to help Bougainville strengthen its local radio services ahead of next year's historic referendum on independence,...
RSF condemns Nine-Fairfax merger as threat to media pluralism in Australia
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about pluralism and respect for editorial independence in the new Australian media conglomerate created...