La’o Hamutuk: Is the Tibar container port what Timor-Leste really needs?
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...
Vanuatu sends team to check students after PNG campus violence
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...
Engan students call for PNG inquiry into Goroka campus clash
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...
Jayapura police arrest 1004 Papuan activists, says KNPB
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...
Benny Wenda: Please hear my Papuan people’s cry for freedom
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...
Beijing’s ‘invisible hand’ felt as Hong Kong press freedom declines
With media freedoms on the decline in Hong Kong, amid growing fears of "mainlandisation", is the press still performing its function as a watchdog?...
Parent likens PNG police student shootings to Bougainville crisis
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...
Activists condemn new crackdown on Papuans – 100 arrested in 4...
The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...
AUT vice-chancellor gives ‘profoundly shocking’ message in wake of Orlando massacre
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...
Death of PNG student denied, protest action continues at 3 campuses
Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...
MSG too political and ‘lost its Melanesian integrity’, says Vanuatu envoy
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...
More female Pacific and Māori youth needed for techno future, says...
"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...
Indonesia and Philippines confront the ghosts of past dictatorships
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...
Large-scale PNG copper mine in sensitive Sepik region alarms environmentalists
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...
Bougainville majority not aware of mining moratorium being lifted, says BFM
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...
TVNZ’s Barbara Dreaver fires back at Fiji PM’s ‘ridiculous claims’
As Television New Zealand's news boss calls for the ban on Barbara Dreaver entering Fiji to be lifted, the Pacific correspondent has responded to...
Unitech ‘guarantees safety’ for students while UPNG now quiet
By Rocky Issou and NauFM News
The Unitech administration in Papua New Guinea's second city of Lae has condemned last week's shooting by police of...
Two Mt Hagen high school students arrested in Highlands protest fallout
The EMTV News report yesterday about the Mt Hagen high school arrests following social media images of the police opening fire on students at...
Highlands unrest following PNG police crackdown on students grounds flights
Graphic student footage of police firing on protesters on Wednesday at the University of Papua New Guinea shows sustained gunfire and tear gas grenades...
RSF calls for end to PNG police violence against journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is appalled by a police attack on a woman journalist during a student demonstration that was dispersed violently...
