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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Locals evacuate Ambae island as Manaro Voui volcano threatens to erupt in Vanuatu. – Video: Guardian Wires By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila New observations...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...