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...
PNG LNG – failed predictions and PNG’s resource curse
“On almost every measure of economic welfare, the PNG economy would have been better off without the PNG LNG project.”
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Papua New...
Greenpeace blasts palm oil industry deforestation in West Papua
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region, a new investigation...
Auckland uni students protest over plan to close special libraries
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
University of Auckland students rallied today against a plan to close several of the university's specialist libraries, reports RNZ National.
The university's...
Manus refugees ‘in the dark’ as healthcare provider pulls out
By Nick Baker of SBS News
The Australian government has been slammed for a lack of transparency amid news that the healthcare provider for refugees...
Pacific research strategies get airing on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Operations manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr Evelyn Masters, presented an introduction to regional initiatives and a media...
‘We’re dying slowly’, says Palauan leader in response to telehealth talk
By Erwin Encinares in Saipan
Palau President Tommy Remengesau says Pacific people of Micronesian descent are “dying slowly” because of dietary imbalances on the islands...
Another Facebook photo ‘community filtering’ policy failure
By Colin Peacock, editor of RNZ Mediawatch
Facebook has been under fire for some time for distributing misinformation and fake news to a potential audience...
PNG police plan public meeting to address Lae ‘land grabbing’
EMTV News' Lucy Kopana reports on the Lae squatter settlements issue in Papua New Guinea. Image: EMTV News
By Lucy Kopana in Lae
Following a growing...
Sylvester Gawi: PNG journalism and the challenge of the ‘kaikai man’
By Sylvester Gawi in Lae
The greatest challenge facing journalism in Papua New Guinea today is that there is no freedom of the press. Journalists...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
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The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
Gallery: Fiji’s first climate change village moved from seashore to ‘promised...
By Hele Ikimotu with visuals and drone video by Blessen Tom
Vunidogoloa was the first village in Fiji to be relocated - barely three years...
Rabi landslide? Not a big problem, horseback and walking the answer
By Hele Ikimotu on Rabi, Fiji
The rebuilding of a road on Fiji’s northern Rabi Island is currently in the works.
Fiji’s most recent natural disaster,...
China’s media control threatens Asia-Pacific democracies, says RSF
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Chinese model of state-controlled news and information is being copied in other Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Cambodia, says the...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -...
Life on Fiji’s Rabi Island – simple, peaceful and full of...
Hele Ikimotu's "life on Rabi" video reflections. Video: Pacific Media Centre
By Hele Ikimotu on Rabi Island, Fiji
Our trip to Rabi was a long journey,...
Gallery: Bearing Witness journeys north …. to Fiji’s idyllic Rabi Island
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate project postgraduate student team Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom have just spent five days on...
Former Speaker sentenced to 15 years in prison in Indonesia’s e-ID...
By Kharishar Kahfi in Jakarta
The Jakarta Corruption Court judges today sentenced former House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto to 15 years in prison after...