NZ media project Pasifika TV goes live in PNG
A video report on Pasifika TV by former Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Alistar Kata. Video: PMC On Demand
Papua New Guineans will continue to...
Peter Laska: PNG students now need a Plan B – ‘people...
OPINION: By Peter Laska in Port Moresby
What I want to write about is what many University of Papua New Guinea students seem to be...
Students reach out to public in ‘awareness day’ over PNG crisis
By Scott Waide in Lae
More than 3000 students from the University of Technology and the National Polytechnic Institute in Papua New Guinea's second largest...
Benny Giay: West Papua – The journey of our nation
OPINION: By Rev Dr Benny Giay in Jayapura
A number of recent developments in Papua, Indonesia and in the Pacific, have led me to a...
Electoral Commission refuses to recognise UPNG student vote
Students of the University of Papua New Guinea gathered early yesterday morning at the forum square on the Waigani campus to vote for a...
Angkor elephant’s death spurs animal tourism shake-up
A clip of elephant riding in Thailand where performances are most common and where animal cruelty regulations are regarded as weak. Video: World Animal...
Call for new media strategies for climate change journalism
Last month's AJ+ video about ExxonMobile's tactics in casting doubt on climate change science.
Do changes to climate change reporting need to happen? Does the...
PNG anti-corruption campaigner vows to keep pushing for PM to quit
By Eric Haurupma in Port Moresby
Anti-corruption activist Bryan Kramer says he and his supporters in Papua New Guinea will continue to pursue their call...
Duterte pulls off huge Philippines win, Marcos trailing narrowly
The Philippines will need to wait for nearly all of the ballots to be transmitted to see whether former dictator Marcos's son Ferdinand "Bongbong"...
Defence recruit foreign lawyers for Vanuatu conspiracy case
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Two lawyers from Australia have been taken on board the defence team representing 11 of the jailed Vanuatu politicians...
Unitech boycotts classes, Tabar slams UPNG students’ actions
Protesting students of Papua New Guinea's University of Technology in Lae are boycotting their classes this week.
They are calling on Prime Minister Peter O'Neill...
Fiji’s Daku village people adapt to challenge of rising sea
Biu Naitasi, Daku's headman, featured on TJ Aumua's video from Daku.
By TJ Aumua in Daku, Fiji Islands
Rising sea levels are a major threat to...
Take your resign petition directly to PM, Parkop tells students
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has appealed to the University of Papua New Guinea student leaders to deliver their petition to the Prime...
UPNG warns students planned protest ballot ‘bordering on contempt’
Management of the University of Papua New Guinea today appealed to protesting students to resume classes with seminar exams only three weeks away, warning...
RSF tells Indonesia to stop flouting journalists’ rights in Papua
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Indonesia’s authorities to stop violating the rights of journalists in West Papua, where the Jayapura police prevented...
Firebrand Davao mayor Duterte accepts mandate ‘with humility’
Al Jazeera reports on the Philippines elections on polling day.
With 87.5 percent of precincts already accounted for, Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte, is unofficially...
UPNG students shrug off threats – holding new protest ballot
Students are expected to hold a fresh protest ballot at the University of Papua New Guinea today after campus unrest entered its second week,...
Duterte, Marcos claim early leads in initial Philippines election results
Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr claimed early leads in the presidential and vice-presidential contests, respectively, as the initial...
PNG’s Basil calls for defence of free speech in student unrest
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
Opposition Leader Sam Basil says the freedom of speech that is enshrined in the Papua New Guinea constitution must...
Fiji police divers recover body of teenager from Rewa River
The body of a 15-year-old girl has been recovered from the Rewa River by divers from Fiji's Police Special Response Unit.
Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro...
LIVE: #PHVote2016 Elections coverage by Rappler today
The Philippines holds its third automated elections today to cap a tight presidential race led so far by Rodrigo Duterte, the tough-talking Davao City...
Sea-level rise claims five whole islands in the Pacific
By Simon Albert, Alistair Grinham, Badin Gibbes, Javier Leon and John Church
Sea-level rise, erosion and coastal flooding are some of the greatest challenges facing...