Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting signatures on an Avaaz petition...

The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...

Pacific Cooperation Foundation media interns Shivika Mala and Linda Filiai visit the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC By Kendall Hutt in Auckland  Student journalists from across...

Andrew Thomas reporting from Port Moresby on the issues at stake in this month's general election in Papua New Guinea. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand broadcaster 95bFM and youth media company VICE have today announced a new content partnership that will see the two...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Cyber "provocation" -- through social media -- is one of the biggest challenges being faced by the Indonesia's national police (Polri)...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A Papua New Guinean court has banned political blogger Martyn Namorong from publishing "defamatory remarks" about Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato and...

By Father Casibjorn Guy Quiacao in Manila Imagine your Catholic parish priest rushing or abruptly ending a mass because his wife or his child met...

BACKGROUNDER: By Jerome P. Villanueva in Manila Uncertainty surrounds the effectiveness of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s ban on smoking. In an executive order titled E026, Duterte...

Masked gunmen 'hijacked' three ballot boxes in Western Highlands electorate of Mul-Baiyer. Video: EMTV News By Elizah Palme in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner...

ANALYSIS: By Dr Tarek Cherkaoui Diplomatic quarrels in the Arabian Peninsula have a long history, and small Gulf States, such as Qatar, align themselves with...

By Delly Waigeno in Port Moresby Another major road construction in Port Moresby, the Koura Way, is expected to be completed in September. It is being...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk West Papuan solidarity groups have protested over reported mass arrests of Papuan activists in the Nabire regency over the past week. Tabloid...

OPINION: By Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro and a candidate in the PNG general election Papua New Guinea's incoming government must put a list of...

Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata profiles the legacy of activism from the 1985 Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video:...

UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu flags new challenges facing the disarmament agenda in the 21st century. Video: UN News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Timor-Leste and Indonesia...

By Bob Makin of Vanuatu Digest in Port Vila Pastor Tallis Obed Moses has been sworn in as President of the Vanuatu Republic. Nineteen votes secured...

As polling draws to a close in Papua New Guinea this weekend and with counting still underway, Pacific Media Watch looks back at the...

By JV Arcena of InterAksyon in Manila Saying the Philippines needs to wage the long, hard fight against terrorism but cannot do it at the...

BACKGROUNDER: By Keith Jackson, publisher of PNG Attitude Papua New Guinea has long luxuriated in the bright light of the soubriquet, "Land of the Unexpected',...