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Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has suggested a double standard, saying he was "not privy to or consulted...
PNG’s founding father Sir Michael Somare ‘critically ill’, says family
Asia Pacific Report
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, widely regarded as the founding father of independent Papua New Guinea, was in a critical condition in...
Pacific protesters against deep sea mining challenge US exploration ship
Greenpeace
Cook Islanders holding a banner reading "Don’t Mine the Moana" have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the...
Trump, Duterte and other ‘toxic’ leaders blamed for undermining human rights
Amnesty International video and release of its Annual Report on the State of the World’s Human Rights.
Toxic fear mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them...
Asian scholars crafting a non-adversarial approach to journalism
Report from Pacific Media Centre
"Mindful journalism" practice in the West tries to be secular and is practised without having any religious values. Moral wisdom...
Tunoa – house arrest – on Tokelau family ends after more than a year
RNZ Pacific
The Taupulega, or council, on the Tokelau atoll of Nukunonu, has lifted a house arrest order on a family which had refused to...
Scott Waide reinstated – ‘thank you’ message from EMTV journalist
COMMENT: By Scott Waide, in an open letter posted on his blog after he was reinstated by EMTV today following suspension for broadcasting an...
Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order
Asia Pacific Report
International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...
Quake buries three alive in Wau as PNG reports death toll of seven
By Samson Bonai in Port Moresby
Three alluvial miners were buried alive at Koranga mining area in Papua New Guinea following the earthquake which measured...
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Eight dead following big PNG jailbreak near Mt Hagen – manhunt,...
By Vasinatta Yama in Mt Hagen
Eight prisoners at the Baisu Correctional Service prison near the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mt Hagen are...
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Cook Islanders get ready to go to the polls – choice...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Cook Islanders go to the polls tomorrow to choose a new 24 member Parliament.
Voters will have four parties...
RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive...
Café Pacific: Nuclear lawsuit inspires support at NZ peace action conference
Report by Pacific Media Centre
David Robie profiles the World Without War conference in Auckland at the weekend.
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