Sky Pacific clearing cyclone backlog, planning new office
By Allison Penjueli in Suva
Clearing out the backlog of customer care jobs after Cyclone Winston remains the major challenge for the Pacific's largest pay...
AWPA condemns arrest of 41 West Papua activists in Jayapura
Indonesian security forces stage a brutal attack on a Papuan taxi driver during this earlier rally in Jayapura on 13 April 2016 - see...
Mainstream NZ media takes pasting at multicultural summit
Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...
Four human rights groups call for Indonesian ‘truth-seeking’ inquiry, apology
Four human rights watchdogs have appealed to Indonesia's Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs to take steps to ensure that last week’s national...
Marap indigenous group claims back 3 oil palm plantations in Papua
By Harun Rumbarar in Jayapura
Indigenous landowners from the Marap people in Arso in Papua's Keeron regency have this week invoked customary law to take...
Agnes Masoe: Accounting and the Pacific advantage
OPINION: By Agnes Masoe
As Pacific people we have a bit of a head start when it comes to professional careers like accounting – thanks...
Jakarta – many ‘spikes’ but it’s the city I grew to...
Journalist Michael Neilson spent six weeks earlier this year at The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta, Indonesia. He describes his time working for the paper...
Powerful quake strikes Vanuatu but tsunami alert dropped
By Bob Makin and BMO News
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...
MSG leaders summit postponed but big West Papua rally goes ahead
By Jane Joshua and Len Garae in Port Vila
The Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in the Vanuatu capital of...
President Widodo ‘lying about 1965 mass killings’, says rights chief
By Abraham Utama in Jakarta
National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi claims Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the...
Welcome back to Vanuatu message for NZ tour agents
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
A group of 16 New Zealand-based travel agents, tourism industry representatives and media professionals were welcomed "back" to Vanuatu...
Pray For West Papua – the first doco on Octo Mote’s...
West Papuans in Port Moresby calling to Christians across the world to pray for peace for West Papua earlier this year. Video: EM TV
Pray...
Manus Island detention centre to close following PNG court ruling
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...
Nauru earns ‘worst’ Pacific black mark as world media freedom declines
Global press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, reports the global media watchdog Freedom House in its latest...
Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...
By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji
A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...
Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem
Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...
Rick Wayman: We stand with the Marshall Islands
Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations.
On April 24,...
Six Pacific Island nations ratify Paris Accord on climate change
The Pacific Islands, among the most vulnerable nations to the impacts of climate change, have displayed global leadership last weekend when the Paris Agreement...
PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...
Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’
Research expeditions can involve newly discovered species. This video shows a pale-winged creature dubbed "the ghost fish". It was discovered by the Schmidt Ocean...