‘Police tortured us’, say KNPB activists among Papua mass arrests
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
Activists from the West Papuan National Committee (KNPB) allege they were tortured and beaten up by police during their mass...
Vanuatu airport runway repairs usher in new tourism era
A ceremony on Friday marked the completion of the first phase of rehabilitation for Vanuatu’s Port Vila Bauerfield Airport and ushered in a new...
PNG’s Unitech votes for class boycott, students demand PM steps down
Unitech's Vice-Chancellor Dr Albert Schram pictured in EMTV video of student unrest updates.
By Scott Waide in Lae
An overwhelming majority of students at Papua New...
Murray Horton: Well done, Mr Weldon, for ‘sinking’ TV3
OPINION: By Murray Horton
It was one of those fascinating contradictions of capitalism that the foreign-owned TV3 always took its journalistic obligations more seriously than...
Environmental advocate sues Duterte supporters for cyberbullying
"Guns, goons and the presidency", a current affairs video about Rodrigo Duterte, the leading candidate in the Philippines elections on Monday. Video: Al Jazeera's...
UPNG students burn 800 newspapers in protest over political crisis
Student protesters at the national university in Papua New Guinea demonstrating against the Peter O'Neill government, claiming it is eroding democracy, have targeted news...
Komnas HAM to probe shutdown of World Press Day event in...
A trailer of the controversial documentary Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta that tells the story of two political prisoners on Baru Island.
By Bambang Muryanto...
PNG media council appeals for ‘respect’ for role of journalists
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has appealed to government institutions and individuals to respect the role of the media and to allow...
Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards
Fires in Indonesia, which burned more than 2.1 million hectares of forest and peatlands in 2015, have raged in dry seasons year on year,...
Karakia in NZ schools under threat from court action
Dr Paul Moon, professor of history at Auckland University of Technology's Te Ara Poutama, says that a recent failed court action to ban Bible...
India needs to counterbalance China in Asia Pacific, says president
President Pranab Mukherjee says India needs to make efforts to improve its presence in the Asia Pacific region to counterbalance the growing influence of...
No media freedom in Fiji while decree still in place, says...
By Matilda Simmons in Suva
As long as the Media Decree is in place, Fiji cannot say it has press freedom, says opposition National Federation...
Westminster meeting makes new declaration for West Papua’s future
An historic step on the road to freedom for West Papua has been taken in London.
At a meeting of the International Parliamentarians for West...
UK’s Corbyn calls for democratic reform in Papua at ‘historic’ summit
United Kingdom Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn has spoken out about the plight of the West Papuan people and supported a push for democratic reform...
West Papua – ‘a nation in waiting’: Behind this week’s uprising
Nearly 2000 people were arrested on Monday, 2 May 2016, in mass unarmed civilian-based uprisings across West Papua, reports We Are Moving Stories.
"The Indonesian...
NZ backs Pacific Forum membership for French territories
The New Zealand government backs the French Pacific territories becoming full members of the Pacific Islands Forum, reports Radio New Zealand International.
The director of...
Stop arresting indigenous Papuans plea to Indonesia
The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned from national and local sources that on May 2 police officers arrested in total 1724 indigenous Papuans...
Shailendra Singh: How hypocritical leaders try to divide and rule media
Dr Shailendra Singh is head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. This was his address to the World Press Freedom...
No improvement in Papua human rights – UN must help, says...
The report of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on its "shadow" human rights fact-finding mission to West Papua this year has found no...
Single goal for Vanuatu civil society summit – support West Papua
By Len Garae in Port Vila
A West Papuan delegation has come to a regional civil society forum with a single goal in mind -...
Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media...
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy gave this opening address at the Ethnic Communities Engagement Summit at Auckland University of Technology at...
Police arrest 1692 activists in six days, reports Suara Papua
Indonesian police in West Papua have arrested 1692 people in the region in the past six days, reports Suara Papua news website citing West...