Tag: ABC Pacific Beat

By Richard Ewart on ABC's Pacific Beat Papua New Guinea's Minister for Climate Change is calling on the international community to take responsibility for a...

By Philip Cass of Kaniva News Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index. In last year's index, compiled...

By Radio Australia There have been very few new covid-19 cases confirmed in the Pacific this week. The total number of reported cases since March stands...

BRIEFING: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The "news" this week that Vanuatu was to be the site of a Chinese military base caught most...

Journalists in Vanuatu are already preparing to make Freedom of Information requests to test the governments new law. David Robie is a professor of journalism...

By Catherine Graue of Pacific Beat As hundreds of police and soldiers begin their work in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province this week, there have...

By Jemima Garrett of ABC Pacific Beat A feasibility study for the first large-scale copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea's environmentally-sensitive Sepik River...