Brother seeks answers from Australia over NZ death at Balibo
The Death of the Balibo Five ... a Footprint Films extra including clips from the film Balibo and interviews with the film director, Robert...
PNG orders in security forces to quell Hela’s ‘gun-toting cowboys’
By MALUM NALU in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government has allocated K11 million (NZ$4.9 million) for a special call-out operation involving police officers...
Indonesia faces chance to prove it is more ‘journalist-friendly’ in 2017
By Colette Davidson
When journalist and media activist Victor Mambor wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it -- he has...
Peter S. Kinjap: Development and injustice – expect the worst in...
OPINION: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Development or modernisation is no magic potion. There is still unfairness and injustice.
Wealth is still limited to...
Out-of-date textbooks put sustainable development at risk, says report
By Kate Redman in Paris
A new study by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report shows secondary school textbooks from the 1950s until...
Arab Spring opened some media freedoms in spite of the overall...
By Pacific Media Watch
The Arab Spring opened the door to some greater freedoms in Middle East news media and some social change in spite...
PNG seabed mining an environment experiment based on ‘false hope’, say...
Nautilus Minerals has "pedalled false hope" for experimental seabed mining at the Papua New Guinea Petroleum and Mining Conference in Sydney, claims the Deep Sea...
Disney’s Moana: First Pacific movie princess the real deal
The Moana trailer ... "magical but also our reality."
REVIEW: By Vaimoana Tapaleao of The New Zealand Herald
You know the film is something special when...
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,...