PNG’s Opposition to take legal action over dismissal of confidence vote
By Quintina Naime in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Opposition will take legal action against the dismissal of the vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister...
Two NZ media groups initiate closer ties with Fiji
A new platform to bring together entrepreneurs engaged or planning to engage in industrial, commercial and investment activities in Fiji has been created in...
Willie Jackson: What to do about Radio New Zealand?
OPINION: By Willie Jackson
Last year Radio New Zealand cut its last Māori dedicated news in prime time, Manu Korihi, from its airwaves and not...
Indonesia’s climate crisis: Is the world still looking away?
By India Thorogood
"Indonesia is burning - so why is the world looking away?" Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a...
Fifth Estate: ‘Bomber’ talks climate change and the impact on Pacific
Michael Timmins (left) and Dr David Robie on Fifth Estate tonight. Video: Slipstream Media
Radio Waatea and The Daily Blog featured the Pacific and climate...
Indonesia pledges to settle human right cases soon
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs, Law and Security Luhut Binsar Padjaitan says the government has resolved to settle human rights cases "in not...
Former PNG politician seeks injunction against Australian doco The Opposition
Former PNG politician Dame Carol Kidu, who features in Media Stockade's feature documentary The Opposition, is seeking an injunction to stop the filmmakers from...
Gary Juffa: K50m health cutback in PNG – and it’s just...
Last week I watched in absolute disgust as MPs in Papua New Guinea giggled and laughed as the Minister for Health made light humour...
Palau suffers worsening drought – emergency declared
By Bernadette H. Carreon in Koror
Palau President Tommy Remengesau Jr. has declared a state of emergency due to the worsening drought in the country...
Fiji Easter message of hope after Cyclone Winston’s devastation
By Peni Mudunavonu in Suva
The Fiji Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Centre of Research for Education and Advocacy brought together people from different...
How Holland censored its post-Japan colonial war in Indonesia
By Linawati Sidarto in Amsterdam
A unique photographic exhibition in Amsterdam shows what the Dutch state tried to hide from its people about the grueling...
Arun Kundnani: The West’s Islamophobia is only helping the ‘Islamic State’
As Easter is celebrated by Christians across the world this weekend, Arun Kundnani reflects on the "global war on terror", the Brussels outrage, the...
PCF offers Pacific exchange to keen media students
A video feedback message by TJ Aumua after her PCF media exchange internship in Fiji last year.
By TJ Aumua
New Zealand-based Pacific Cooperation Foundation has...
Civil disobedience key tactic in climate change strategy
More than 200 people gathered in Auckland this week to protest against the country’s largest oil industry conference, warning that increased attempts at oil...
Vanuatu petition marchers protest over violence against women
By a Vanuatu Daily Digest correspondent in Port Vila
In an outpouring of popular protest, several hundred women, men and children marched in Port Vila...
TPPA prevents action on climate change, claim critics
Does the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade" agreement between Pacific Rim nations fail to address “the most important issue of our time”? Dominic Pink...
Images: Celebration over launch of NZ’s Pacific research institute
Dancers of the Ura Tabu group treated guests with a performance of "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the NZ Institute of Pacific Research...
McCully launches new Pacific think-tank for ‘targeted research’
Ura Tabu dancers perform the Calypso medley song "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research last night....
Samoan women score a try for gender empowerment
Samoa’s Rugby Union is encouraging more of its country’s women to participate in rugby. Sport administrators and gender equality advocates are seeing greater participation...
Vanuatu women unite to end violence, stage public rally
Women in Vanuatu’s capital have banned together to call for an end to violence against women.
The Vanuatu Daily Post reported that a "Stop violence...
New Pacific research institute gives students, staff ‘cutting edge’ chance
By Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua
The launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research (NZIPR) at the University of Auckland last...
Landmark report into illegal fishing will boost control efforts in Pacific
A report into illegal fishing is set to make waves across the Pacific. Kendall Hutt of Asia-Pacific Journalism reports.
Officials from 17 nations across the...