Elite Rangers captain killed as battle for Marawi rages on
Filipino Colonel Romeo Brawner gives Day 112 updates on the battle for Marawi City, Mindanao. Video: Rappler
By Carmela Fonbuena in Marawi City, Philippines
A...
Moana Te Reo film world premiere tonight in Māori language week
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
In celebration of New Zealand's Māori Language Week, the Māori reversioning of the blockbuster Disney movie Moana will premiere tonight in...
Jacinda has climate talk but Greens have the walk, says Greenpeace
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greenpeace climate campaigner Kate Simcock has applauded the Greens for their climate policy announced yesterday.
“It’s exactly the sort of response to...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Don’t forget customary land, West Papua issues
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
On Friday, the 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting -- and all other related meetings...
Global refugee crisis solution ‘up to all of us’, says filmmaker...
The Venice film festival has just ended, and one of the most challenging movies was the documentary Human Flow by Chinese artist and activist...
Vanuatu to deport illegal workers in labour market crackdown
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
Vanuatu's minister responsible for labour matters, Alfred Maoh, has warned foreign workers engaged in paid employment in the country...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Another Pacific talkfest but what about the carbon...
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia
There is no doubt about it. The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in Apia this week have...
Break-in ‘will not shake’ PNG’s Transparency International
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Transparency International Papua New Guinea (TIPNG) says its work will continue despite a break-and-entry incident that occurred at their Boroko premises...
NZ High Commissioner in Samoa casts first elections 2017 overseas vote
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand's High Commissioner in Samoa, David Nicholson, cast the first vote for the upcoming New Zealand general election from the...
Australian judge awards ‘fair’ $70m to Manus Island asylum detainees
Manus Island prison ... as reported by Leah Harding about Iranian filmmaker Behrouz Boochani and the docomentary Chauka: Please Tell Us The Time at...
What NZ’s major political parties offer on climate policy for 2017...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
With New Zealand’s 2017 general election just two weeks away on September 23, Pacific Media Watch looks into the policies and...
Mastermind behind murder of activist Munir still unknown after 13 years
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
Almost 13 years to the day since human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was poisoned with arsenic aboard a...
Forum chief promises protesters ‘voice of Papua’ will be heard in...
By Elizabeth Ah-Hi in Apia
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, has promised protesters that their voice on West Papua...
Australia’s ‘dirty’ coal hypocrisy threatens Pacific climate security
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to meet with his island counterparts this week in Apia, Samoa, Pacific civil society...
Jane Kelsey: Labour and the TPPA – time to come clean...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Jane Kelsey
It is now certain that any decisions on the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the US will...
‘Shared stewardship’ of ocean key to Pacific Forum strategy
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Leaders from across the Pacific are meeting in Apia, Samoa, this week to discuss the future of the region’s oceans.
Under the...
Pōhiva blames T$60,000 ceremony bill rejection for cabinet shakeup
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Tongan interim Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva says he suspected his rejection of a proposal by the Deputy Prime...
Naashon Zalk: Why are New Zealand’s waters so polluted?
Al Jazeera's People & Power programme investigates disturbing claims that New Zealand’s rivers and lakes are among the most polluted in the developed world....
Cambodia Daily branded ‘a thief’, forced to close over tax fight
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
One of Cambodia's last remaining independent newspapers has announced it is closing today after 24 years, the latest in a series...
Tonga’s caretaker PM Pōhiva sacks deputy and Finance Minister
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva has fired Deputy Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni and Finance Minister Tēvita Lavemaau, says a...