Powerful quake strikes Vanuatu but tsunami alert dropped
By Bob Makin and BMO News
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...
MSG leaders summit postponed but big West Papua rally goes ahead
By Jane Joshua and Len Garae in Port Vila
The Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in the Vanuatu capital of...
President Widodo ‘lying about 1965 mass killings’, says rights chief
By Abraham Utama in Jakarta
National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi claims Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the...
Welcome back to Vanuatu message for NZ tour agents
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
A group of 16 New Zealand-based travel agents, tourism industry representatives and media professionals were welcomed "back" to Vanuatu...
Pray For West Papua – the first doco on Octo Mote’s...
West Papuans in Port Moresby calling to Christians across the world to pray for peace for West Papua earlier this year. Video: EM TV
Pray...
Manus Island detention centre to close following PNG court ruling
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...
Nauru earns ‘worst’ Pacific black mark as world media freedom declines
Global press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, reports the global media watchdog Freedom House in its latest...
Daku has a climate message for the world: ‘Tell them to...
By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji
A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...
Images: Fiji’s Daku village tackles the floodwaters problem
Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...
Rick Wayman: We stand with the Marshall Islands
Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations.
On April 24,...
Six Pacific Island nations ratify Paris Accord on climate change
The Pacific Islands, among the most vulnerable nations to the impacts of climate change, have displayed global leadership last weekend when the Paris Agreement...
PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...
Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’
Research expeditions can involve newly discovered species. This video shows a pale-winged creature dubbed "the ghost fish". It was discovered by the Schmidt Ocean...
Philippine military vow to bring Abu Sayyaf to justice after beheading
Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports on the Philippine army defending its operations against the armed Abu Sayyaf group in the south of the country...
Pacific crop centre develops food strategies for climate change
By TJ Aumua in Suva
Severe weather patterns and cyclonic activity have become increasingly hyperactive in the South Pacific with climate change as the key...
Pacific example can help ‘save the world’ on climate change, says...
By Ami Dhabuwala in Suva
The people of the Pacific have been handed a big challenge over the weekend – mobilise for urgent climate change...
Young NZ soldier at Gallipoli for Anzac Day on first trip...
By Sara Stavropoulos
Ruatoria-born soldier Private Christian Hohepa has now travelled a long way since joining the New Zealand Army in 2013.
On his first-ever trip...
PM O’Neill accuses Somare and Morauta of political ‘sour grapes’
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...
Crispin C. Maslog: Martial law amnesia – we didn’t teach history...
I give my column space today to my favorite communication man, Professor Crispin C. Maslog. A former journalist with Agence France-Presse, Cris was director...
Pacific Island states take lead on landmark UN climate deal
The signing of the Paris Accord on climate change at the United Nations. Video: PBS News Hour clip
By Carole Landry in New York
With their...
Global media groups urge Timor-Leste PM to drop defamation case
The International Federation of Journalists and the South East Asia Journalist Unions have joined international organisations Committee to Protect Journalists and Freedom House in...
Reported domestic violence in Fiji ‘tip of the iceberg’
By Julie Cleaver
In Fiji, the number of reported domestic violence cases has increased. Police say in the first quarter of this year, it registered...






























































