Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk from Surya Malang, Indonesia
The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006,...
ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear weapons ban treaty
Pacific Media Watch Newdesk
The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, reports Al Jazeera English.
In...
Deported Chinese nationals alleged to be sex workers, not fraudsters
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The 77 Chinese citizens deported from Fiji by uniformed Chinese police in August were sex workers, according to an investigative report...
Ambae is Vanuatu’s story, not just a global media backdrop
OPINION: By Dan McGarry
It happens every time disaster strikes in the developing world. The inhabitants of the place become background players in a drama...
PMC’s monographs launched on Tuwhera in ‘exciting initiative’
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
The Pacific Media Centre’s peer-reviewed research monographs have been launched on the Auckland University of Technology Library’s...
Howling dogs all that’s left in volcano island Ambae’s empty villages
By Dan McGarry on Santo
Only the howling of dogs can be heard now in Ambae’s abandoned villages. The entire population has now been moved...
Josef Benedict: Rohingya crisis is a moment of truth for ASEAN
ANALYSIS: By Josef Benedict
Today, we are watching history repeat itself in Southeast Asia in the worst possible way.
Once again, the Myanmar military has launched...
‘Asia-Pacific uniting, working together’ – Gadjah Mada team arrives in NZ
By Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch contributing editor
Academics from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia have arrived in New Zealand in a major research...
Rampaging mob attacks PM O’Neill’s interests – ‘warlords’ take over Mendi
By Johnny Poiya and Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
A rampaging crowd has attacked Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s official vehicle and business...
Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists
Locals evacuate Ambae island as Manaro Voui volcano threatens to erupt in Vanuatu. – Video: Guardian Wires
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
New observations...
Manus Island refugees offered $25,000 each ‘if they go home’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Australian government will be offering money to refugees on Manus Island who agree to return to their home countries as...
Vanuatu President seeks calm, PM says ‘we’re not ready for disasters’
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and though it is accustomed to being hit by cyclones and...
Keep your ‘green pledges’, NZ ecology groups warn key political leaders
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...
Ambae Manaro volcano’s crater lakes make it a serious threat to...
Smoke billows from Vanuatu’s Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: The Guardian
ANALYSIS: By Chris Firth
If you turned on the television this week, you...
Health risks of climate change ‘earliest, most severe’ for Pacific –...
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves. The observable effects of climate change...
‘Jail for life’ offer for freedom of co-accused in Fiji sedition...
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka, Fiji
One accused walked away a free man yesterday while another offered to serve a life sentence if the High...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Vanuatu’s mass exodus from volcano island Ambae under way
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu's government is moving the entire population of 11,000 people from Ambae to the neighbouring islands of Pentecost, Maewo,...
‘You’re my hero’ – UST students pay tribute to teachers in...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a bid to set a new Guinness world record, 16,729 students from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines,...
Vanuatu orders evacuation of Ambae’s 11,000 people over volcano’s gases
A RNZAF flyover of Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: NZDF
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has ordered...
Vanuatu rescuers face tough challenges over Ambae volcano evacuation
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
The Penama Provincial Disaster and Climate Change Committee is facing a number of challenges in its efforts to help...
Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State...
By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta
Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...





























































