Tahiti incumbent defies corruption cloud to easily win election
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In the elections held in French Polynesia over the weekend, the ruling party of President Edouard Fritch scored a decisive victory...
‘Time of anxiety’ – a depressing new normal for local journalists...
By Colleen Murrell in Melbourne
For journalists who cover Afghanistan, the bombing that killed nine local reporters last week in Kabul was a sober reminder...
Mass staff walkout at Phnom Penh Post owner’s self-censorship order
By Thomas Brent, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka in Phnom Penh
Cambodia’s last independent newspaper has had its editorial team gutted after its managing editor, web...
O’Neill ‘undermining’ Bougainville peace deal, vote plan, says Miriori
The trailer for New Zealand documentary maker Will Watson's forthcoming documentary about the Bougainville peace process, Soldiers Without Guns. Video: TMI Pictures
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Blood in the Pacific: 30 years on from the Ouvéa Island...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Max Uechtritz
On Saturday, 30 years ago in 1988, I smelled death for the first time – literally.
A sickening, almost suffocating, stench...
Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel
BOOK REVIEW: By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta
A Dutch freelance journalist, Rohan (a pen name), had been interested in the political turmoil in Papua...
Highlands security crisis hampers PNG quake response
By Johnny Blades of Radio NZ Pacific
An ongoing security crisis in Papua New Guinea's Hela province is preventing many earthquake-affected communities receiving relief.
February's magnitude...
Macron visits Ouvéa on anniversary of defining 1988 hostage crisis
FLASHBACK: The controversial docudrama Rebellion, screened at the 2012 NZ International Film Festival by director Mathieu Kassovitz and featuring some Kanak relatives of the...
Biggest quake since 1975 shakes Hawai’i, volcano spews lava
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The 6.9-magnitude earthquake that shook the Big Island on Friday and was felt as far away as Oahu was the strongest...
PMC director condemns ‘targeting’ of journalists and silence on West Papua
By Jean Bell in Auckland
An alarming number of "targeted" journalists being killed and West Papua media for independence were just some of the topics...
Chewing betel nut, or ‘buai’ … the Taiwanese way
Taiwanese Chewing Gum ... a betel nut documentary in Taiwan. Video: Steven Domjancic
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In Papua New Guinea, the psychoactive betel nut is...
Journalists talk press freedom – ‘be afraid, but do the...
In this World Press Freedom Day video, Filipino journalists Ed Lingao, Jason Gutierrez, Inday Espina-Varona, Ezra Acayan, and JC Gotinga speak about facing threats...
Student journalists speak up – not all glamour but risky in...
By Laiseana Nasiga in Suva
Final-year student journalists at the University of the South Pacific took centre stage at this year’s World Press Freedom Day...
Review of laws passed by Parliament ‘not in Tongan king’s power’
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News
The King of Tonga has no right to judge the merits of legislation passed by Parliament, according to a...
Macron begins New Caledonia visit as independence vote looms
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
French President Emmanuel Macron today began a three-day visit to New Caledonia - six months before the territory's vote on independence...
Journalists work ‘in fear’ in PNG, says media freedom advocate
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A senior journalist in Papua New Guinea says there is no media freedom in the country and journalists are often working...
Free media week killings underscore crimes of impunity against journalists
The media freedom monitoring group Reporters Without Borders details how it has trained journalists in Afghanistan to be aware of double suicide bomb attacks....
PNG prime minister slams gas failure report as ‘fake news’
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News in Brisbane
Papua New Guinea's prime minister has dismissed as "fake news" a report that claims a partially-Australian funded...
Michael Bain: A shameful neglect of our Moruroa campaign veterans
OPINION: By Michael Bain
Last week was ANZAC Day on April 25. I took my kids to the Dawn Service at Auckland’s War Memorial Museum....
Opposition PNG MP wins court phone reprieve for ‘at risk’ lives
EMTV News report on the National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) chief executive Charles Punaha claiming the agency would move against unregistered simcards...
