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Pacific coronavirus: NZ’s big decision, j-schools and media closures
Pacific Media Watch
Into the fourth week of lockdown in New Zealand, and today's weekly Pacific Media Centre Southern Cross radio programme covers what...
A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific
During the fuel crisis, Pacific Island countries have scrambled to secure their own fuel supply, forcing them to...
Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies
Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID.
It’s “the removal of a huge and...
Tuna brands largely failing to combat slavery in Pacific, says new report
RNZ Pacific
A new report has found that tuna fishing companies in the Pacific are doing little to stop slavery on their boats.
The canned tuna...
784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes 100
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded 784 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours to 8am on Monday.
That compares to 1043 cases in the previous...
RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the "absurd situation" in which Australian investigative journalist...
Indonesian crackdown on peaceful West Papuan UN vote petition signers
Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting signatures on an Avaaz petition...
Mad, bad or mostly moderate? Media’s mixed message on protest
RNZ Mediawatch
There was plenty of condemnation of New Zealand's illegal occupation of Parliament in the media at first -- but this week some media...
Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics
COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta
The Land of Papua is widely known as a land full of milk and honey. It is a name...
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Donna Miles-Mojab: Is there such a thing as unbiased reporting?
COMMENTARY: By Donna Miles-Mojab
Recently, there was a serious revelation that some wire service reports were edited, without attribution, by an individual employee of our...
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Fate of Russian super yacht Amadea still unknown – docked at...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
The seizure of a super yacht -- reportedly owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch -- by the US government in...
French ‘nickel pact’ to bail out New Caledonia’s industry delayed
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The signing of a "nickel pact" to salvage New Caledonia's embattled industry has not been signed...
Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast
Pacific Media Watch
In July 1985, Australia's Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller.
Four French...
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