Timor-Leste honours George Aditjondro for ‘challenging’ role in independence struggle
By MAHINDA ARKYASA in Jakarta
The Timor-Leste government has extended it condolences for the passing of Dr George Junus Aditjondro on December 10. Aditjondro was...
Chinese naval training ship in Fiji for goodwill visit
The Chinese naval training ship Zhenghe has travelled to Fiji on a goodwill visit.
The ship is carrying 349 crew on board, including 169 trainees,...
Parkop calls on PNG to use state veto power to revoke...
By Cedric Patjole in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop is calling on the state to use its veto powers...
Phillip Knightley: The supreme investigative journo and storyteller
OBITUARY: By Richard Lance Keeble
Phillip Knightley, the investigative reporter who has died aged 87, was a wonderful storyteller. Once he told my students at...
WJEC16: Student shootings in PNG, j-schools, corruption and climate change
Heavily armed Papua New Guinea police in camouflage fatigues confront students before opening fire on them on 8 June 2016. Image: PMC video
The shootings...
Indonesian anticorruption activist George Aditjondro dies in Palu
OBITUARY: By Ruslan Sangadji in Jakarta
Activist, researcher, scholar and former Tempo magazine journalist George Junus Aditjondro has died in Palu, Central Sulawesi. He was 70...
Greenpeace video shows NZ oil seismic blasts ‘betrayal’ over climate change
The Schlumberger seismic survey vessel, Amazon Warrior, seismic blasting approximately 120 nautical miles off the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Video: Nigel...
Duterte’s War: ‘He was alive when they hammered the nails into...
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bodies pile up in the Philippines as Duterte’s controversial "war on drugs" continues after the President tells citizens to deal...
Indonesia’s Jokowi still owes resolution of past rights abuses
By Margareth S. Aritonang in Jakarta
After two years of running the country, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has still not fulfilled his campaign promise to...
Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters
By Dr Alexandra Wake in Melbourne
As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands early today, triggering a...
Magnitude 7.8 quake strikes Solomon Islands – tsunami warning eases
A tsunami warning has been issued for several Pacific countries - including Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - following an earthquake...
Greek VJ wins Rory Peck freelance award for refugees crisis video
Fear and Desperation: Refugees and Migrants Pour into Greece. Prizewinning footage shot in October 2015 – March 2016, Greece. Video: Rory Peck Awards
Will Vassilopoulos,...
Peter Solo Kinjap: Confronting corruption – know our rights and insist...
OPINION: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Many current Papua New Guinean parliamentarians are highly respected individuals in their own areas - successful in...
Philippines move to restore death penalty bill wins House support
Rappler's Evening wRap on President Duterte and the death penalty.
By Mara Cepeda in Manila
A proposed measure seeking to reimpose the death penalty in the...
Mounting death toll tops 102 after strong quake hits Aceh buildings
By Hotli Simanjuntak in Banda Aceh
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Aceh in Indonesia early yesterday morning, destroying buildings in Pidie Jaya...
Regional meeting eyes Pacific climate migration and displacement
By Debbie Singh in Suva
A regional meeting to consider key Pacific priorities and responsibilities for advancing commitments under international and regional policy frameworks on...
IFJ praises ‘historic milestone’ with new information law in Vanuatu
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV), in commending the recent passing of a Right...
Why the ‘treason’ arrests in Indonesia are a worry for Asia-Pacific
By Abdul Qowi Bastian
Sri Bintang Pamungkas was arrested in his home in Cibubur, in the outskirts of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, on early Friday morning,...
‘Beaten and left in cell screaming in pain’ – Amnesty alleges...
By Tevita Vuibau in Suva
It has been more than eight years since Nimilote Baleiloa saw the body of his late son Josefa Baleiloa in...
Fiji deports US citizen for ‘swearing at president’, claims government
By Talebula Kate in Suva
A United States national has been deported after swearing at the President of Fiji, Jioji Konrote, last week, it was...