Cut back on $530m smelter bond, Freeport mine tells Indonesia
From ETAN
By Wilda Asmarini In Jakarta
Freeport McMoRan Inc has asked Indonesia to reduce a US$530 million smelter bond the local unit of the US...
Climate model tool shows warmer South-East Asia future
From SciDev.Net
By Dyna Rochmyaningsih in Jakarta
Scientists in South-East Asia and the United Kingdom’s Met Office have teamed up to develop a model that predicts...
PNG court martial of accused Komo mutineers adjourned again
From PNG Loop
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
The court martial sitting in Papua New Guinea against 11 alleged mutineers of the PNG Defence Force...
Indonesian tourist visa fee set to be scrapped for Australians
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
The US$35 (A$49) visa fee Australian tourists must pay before entering Indonesia looks set to be finally scrapped after years...
Australia stands firm on hardline policies against asylum seekers
From ETAN/The Straits Times
By Jonathan Pearlman in Perth
Australia has adopted some of the world's toughest policies against refugees in recent years and will not...
Indonesia blocks Freeport copper exports from Papua in deadlock
From ETAN
By Bernadette Christina Munthe and Fergus Jensen
Freeport McMoRan Inc has lost its right to export copper concentrate, valued at more than $1 billion,...
Biman Prasad: Is our Fiji democracy really working?
Dr Biman Prasad, leader of Fiji's Opposition National Federation Party, suspended for 30 days yesterday by the Fijian Elections Office, assesses the country's "deeply...
Fiji’s National Federation Party suspended for 30 days over accounts
Report from Fiji Village
By Vijay Narayan in Suva
Fiji's opposition National Federation Party has been suspended for 30 days with immediate effect for contravening the...
De Brum, Nuclear Zero lawyers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Report from the International Peace Bureau
By Colin Archer in Geneva
The Oslo-based International Peace Bureau has nominated former Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum...
Vanuatu to install tsunami signs, sirens in urban areas
Report from Vanuatu Daily Post
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Port Vila and Luganville will be introduced to a complete tsunami warning system by the...
Workers Voice: TPPA protests, climate change post-Paris and Waitangi Day
PlanetFM
Protests against the TPPA protests, the climate change movement post-Paris 2015, and the run up to Waitangi day ...
Unite Union's Joe Carolan talks to...
11,000 plus women abused a year, reports PNG police family unit
PNG Today/PNG TV
Up to 35 abused women go to the Boroko Family and Sexual Violence Unit a day in Papua New Guinea's capital Port...
Chief magistrate rejects arrest bid in Vanuatu conspiracy case
From Vanuatu Daily Post
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Attempts to arrest former Prime Minister Joe Natuman and former Acting Police Commissioner Aru Maralau for...
NZ’s ‘corruption free’ perception ranking drops second year in row
Transparency International NZ
New Zealand has fallen to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index - the second consecutive drop in a survey...
Challenging start to the year in Asia-Pacific free expression
Report from IFEX
By Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Journalists have been killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in separate incidents that took place in January...
KP Lew: It’s easy to be cynical … harder to fight...
Pacific Media Centre
By Kai Ping Lew
When Alistar Kata first asked if I would take part in this mini doco, The PMC Project, I was...
Hilda Heine sworn in as first Pacific woman president
From Marshall Islands Journal
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
The ousting this week of President Casten Nemra, only two weeks into his term as president of...
Novès’ Six Nations selection heralds new era of French rugby
From The Student Newspaper
By Nghia Mai in Paris
For so long the French national rugby union team was a team feared for its paradoxical combination...
Vanuatu airport claim: ‘No one at air control’ for Virgin flight
From Vanuatu Daily Post
By Jane Joshua and Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Virgin Australia, has temporarily suspended its flights to Vanuatu over runway safety concerns...