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...
Keith Jackson: From cusp of defeat, O’Neill’s stunning attempt to ‘steal’...
ANALYSIS: By Keith Jackson
The headlines variously read "O'Neill 'invited' to form government", "O'Neill gets tap to form government" and "People's National Congress invited to...
PNG Ombudsman wins court order to extend electoral writs deadline
EMTV News reports on the election writs court order.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Ombudsman Commission has obtained an interim court order to extend the return...
Climate change in Asia-Pacific, advocacy journalism in PJR
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Climate change research ranging from Australia and Indonesia to Fiji and Vietnam feature in the latest Pacific Journalism Review in the...
Rights, cultural activists among winners of Asia’s Nobel Prize
By Joe Torres in Manila
An Indonesian tribal rights activist, a Sri Lankan woman who has helped civil war victims, and a Japanese man working...
Only 10% NZ school leavers ‘Asia-ready’ and just one-third ‘in zone’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Less than 10 percent of school leavers are "Asia-ready" and only 36 percent are "in the zone" when it comes to...
Constable Jimmy dies in PNG elections ambush – ‘being a cop’s...
By Elizah Palme in Wabag, Papua New Guinea
Duty called for two police officers and other members of Papua New Guinea's Mt Hagen Mobile Squad...
No mercy for Indonesian drug dealers, says Widodo in ‘just shoot’...
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered law enforcers to shoot drug traffickers to deal with what he called a...
Global media freedom summit slams Gulf states, supports Al Jazeera
By Dr Joseph M Fernandez in Doha, Qatar
The international freedom of expression conference in Doha has ended with a strong condemnation of the threats...