PNG’s media council unveils updated code of ethics as guide for...
Charmaine Poriambep of TVWan News reports on the timely new PNG code of ethics.
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Journalists, reporters and media practitioners in Papua...
Pacific media internship offers chance to follow regional issues
One of the PCF interns coming to New Zealand, Shivika Mala of the University of the South Pacific, talks to the Pacific Media Centre...
Thousands support Indonesian petition to repeal blasphemy law
By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta
Indonesians have called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to immediately repeal Article 156a on religious blasphemy of the Criminal...
‘I want my children back’ – Fighting for Australia’s indigenous children
SPECIAL REPORT: Laura Lyons has been battling the New South Wales and Australian government to have her three children returned to her since they...
Indonesia must step up over Papuan development, says ELSAM
The Indonesian government needs to change the policy of development which makes Papuan community a subject, says a non-government organisation that specialises in West...
Four killed, eight wounded in bungled Indonesian military exercise
By Fadi In Batam, Ruiau Islands, Indonesia
A Chinese-made cannon has malfunctioned and fired off shots randomly during military exercises in Indonesia's Tanjung Datuk, Natuna,...
Timor-Leste journalists facing jail for defamation over PM criticism
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliates Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the South East...
PNG police chief stands down expat security contractor over ‘illegals’
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
A group of United States security contractors engaged by Papua New Guinea's police chief to give firearms training have been...
Freeport mine in Papua sacks 840 striking workers following May Day
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
Gold and copper mining firm PT Freeport has reportedly laid off 840 employees for going on strike in Timika in...
CPJ condemns attack on Afghan state television — at least 6...
Al Jazeera's report on the attack on the National Radio Television of Afghanistan office in Jalalabad.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has strongly condemned the...
PNG Media Council blasts assault on EMTV election news crew
EMTV's head of news Neville Choi reports on the assault on the television crew -- see item at 4min01sec. Video: EMTV News
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Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
Abrupt increase in minimum wage may hit Fiji economy, warns academic
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
An abrupt increase in Fiji's national minimum wage for workers in the informal sectors could have an adverse impact on...
Solomon Islands arms police force after 14 years
After almost 14 years, the Solomon Islands police force has been rearmed.
At a ceremony in Honiara last week the police force launched its limited...
Pat Walsh: Ahok is innocent — Indonesia needs him and renewed...
ANALYSIS: By Pat Walsh
The recent sentencing of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Chinese-Indonesian Governor of Jakarta, to two years in jail for blasphemy...
Peter S. Kinjap: PNG needs maturity in political debates and on...
ANALYSIS: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has entered the third week of the eight-week election campaign before polling commences next...
Mike Treen: ‘Extend the amnesty’ – facing NZ’s ‘inhuman’ migrant plan
Unite Union's Mike Treen critiques the injustices of the New Zealand migrant policies and their fraud on foreign students, especially Asian. Skykiwi journalist Leon...
Rabuka’s message to 1987 Fiji coup victims: ‘To you I say,...
By Litia Cava in Suva
Social Democratic Liberal Party leader and former military coup maker Sitiveni Rabuka says the rioting and assault on some Fijians...
Armed men ’cause confusion’ in PNG capital – election observers announced
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
An online and television news service has reported concerns over "confusion" about recent sightings of armed expatriate men in the...
Southern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM's The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations...