Climate change champion, Nobel nominee Tony de Brum mourned
By Shawn Raymundo and Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, a Pacific champion of climate change...
Stop unlawful jailings of indigenous Papuans, AHRC warns Jakarta
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned the unlawful deprivation of liberty of Papuans which has has been happening frequently...
Australia crowned new king of basketball in FIBA Asia Cup
Tight game ... "sweeping" Australia versus "gritty" Iran in FIBA Asia Cup final. Video: FIBA Asia Cup
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
A second-tier Australian team ruled...
RNZI hits back at Tongan media bias claims
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Radio New Zealand International's presenter of Dateline Pacific, Don Wiseman, has suggested Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva's son read the New Zealand...
Duterte inspired by ‘Petrus’ shootings, says Indonesia’s Wiranto
Summary execution-style killings between 1982 and 1985, known locally as penembakan misterius (mysterious shootings), or Petrus, were infamous as a means of bringing down...
NZ’s Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into Pacific community’, says...
Tagata Pasifika's first election talanoa ... Labour must engage Pacific voters. Video: Tagata Pasifika
Tagata Pasifika has kicked off its election talanoa series with a...
Korea, Iran in with a shot to challenge Australia, NZ for...
Korean basketballers too hot, slick and tough ... Philippines beaten. Video: FIBA Asia Cup
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in Adelaide
Two former Asian champions earned the...
Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown
Australia and New Zealand face-off against Asia-Pacific counterparts ... basketball tournament kicks off. Video: FIBA Asia Cup
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in Adelaide
Basketball countries in...
Plans to end violence, improve human rights in West Papua ‘unravelling’
ANALYSIS: By Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge in Jakarta
Reports about the shooting of an indigenous Papuan by police officers early this month in Deiyai district,...
PM O’Neill wins stay order preventing arrest
Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has successfully obtained a stay order in the Supreme Court preventing his arrest.
This comes pending a review...
NZ government rejects calls for ‘public, unequivocal’ stand for West Papua
Pacific Media Watch reports
New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee has dismissed a call for the government to make a stand and address...
Stay order on PM O’Neill’s arrest dismissed by court
By Nellie Setepano in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Court has dismissed stay orders preventing the arrest of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
This means police...
‘A price they never should’ve paid’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims remembered
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The estimated 226,000 people who lost their lives in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered in...
‘They get up in the morning, sing their dreams’ – PNG...
New Zealand filmmaker Paul Wolffram's What Lies That Way... "by and about magic" of Papua New Guinea. Video: Paul Wolffram.
Pacific Media Watch reports
Sorcery and...
US, Chinese companies linked to PNG land theft, deforestation, says report
Landowner-turned activist Paul Pavol talks about the widespread land theft and deforestation occurring in Papua New Guinea at the hands of foreign companies. Video:...
Deported NZ missionary to push for reform on return to PNG
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Deported New Zealand missionary Douglas Tennent will hopefully be returning to Papua New Guinea in the next week.
This comes after...
O’Neill re-elected PNG prime minister following ‘chaotic’ day in parliament
Peter O'Neill has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea amid a chaotic day inside parliament.
The tenth sitting of parliament suffered a...
Public interest journalism at a ‘crossroads’, says MEAA
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says public interest journalism is at a "crossroads" in its submission to the country's Senate inquiry into the future...
NZ climate change approach must ‘transcend government’, says report
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Concerns have emerged New Zealand may not meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement if a law on emissions is...
Former chief justice slams Gamato’s ‘premature’ PM election move
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Sir Arnold Amet, today condemned the actions of the beleagured Electoral Commissioner in...