After monitoring 20 months of the human rights situation in Papua and West Papua provinces under Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s administration, the Asian Human...

Le Va, in partnership with Pasifika media, has launched the "Pasifika media guidelines for reporting suicide". This whiteboard video provides an overview. See Samoa...

With Beijing and Shanghai experiencing a decline in air pollution, is China finally starting to win the battle for its clean energy revolution? Jihee...

By Vanuatu Daily Digest "Warm Waters’" a photoessay on climate change by Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin, is the best piece of reporting on climate change in...

By Shiyal Devi in Lautoka, Fiji The Melanesian Spearhead Group is expected to deliberate on West Papua's bid to become a full member of the...

ANALYSIS: By La'o Hamutuk in Dili Timor-Leste signed a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement this month with the French company Bolloré to build and operate a...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila A Vanuatu government team left for Port Moresby today to conduct an on-the-ground assessment of the crisis at...

By Philip Kepson in Wabag The Engan students at the University of Goroka have called on the Papua New Guinea government to investigate what was...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1000 of its members have were detained by Indonesian police during...

An open letter by Benny Wenda, a West Papuan independence leader and spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP): Dear everyone, Today thousands...

With media freedoms on the decline in Hong Kong, amid growing fears of "mainlandisation", is the press still performing its function as a watchdog?...

By Anthony Kaybing in Buka, Bougainville The shooting of university students by the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary in Port Moresby last week has been...

The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...

Vice-chancellor Derek McCormack of Auckland University of Technology has described the weekend massacre in Orlando, Florida, as "profoundly shocking" and he has extended the...

Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila The Vanuatu Ambassador to Brussels, Roy Mickey Joy, says the Melanesian Spearhead Group  is too politicised, has lost its...

"Technology is essential for providing Pacific youth with better opportunities for their future." This was a key message at the Pacific Wave "Prosperous Futures through...

By Mong Palatino in Manila Indonesia’s Golkar party wants former strongman General Suharto to be declared a national hero. In the Philippines, President-elect Rodrigo Duterte...

By Jemima Garrett of ABC Pacific Beat A feasibility study for the first large-scale copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea's environmentally-sensitive Sepik River...

Lifting of the mining moratorium on Bougainville has hoodwinked the majority of people on Bougainville, says the Bougainville Freedom Movement. In March 2016, the Autonomous...