Tag: Airports
NZ families worried as loved ones shelter from violent unrest in...
By Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter
Worried New Caledonian expats in Aotearoa admit they are "terrified" for friends and family amid ongoing violence and civil...
O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
Former Papua New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill says the controversial US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement threatens the country's sovereignty.
He...
Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off...
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby
Air travellers were left stranded and fuming country-wide as airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air hit a rough patch...
Airport security force Vanuatu journo to delete repatriation photos
Pacific Media Watch
A Vanuatu Daily Post journalist was forced to delete all photos of a repatriation aircraft’s arrival in Port Vila from New Zealand,...
Fiji Airports face major financial disaster over Covid-19, warns chief
FBC News reports on the airports economic setbacks.
By Ritika Pratap in Suva
Fiji Airports will defer future infrastructure projects as a result of financial set-backs...
The wanted man, the CIA, the Russians and a Tongan king’s...
Julian Pettifer introduces his 1979 BBC series Diamonds in the Sky. Video: Julian Pettifer
ANALYSIS: By Dr Philip Cass
There was an American entrepreneur who...
Accidents expose lax safety hitting Indonesia’s infrastructure projects
By Sarah Yuniarni in Jakarta
A recent string of accidents in major construction projects in Indonesia has raised concerns of lax safety standards as President...
Fiji police grill magazine ex-publisher, director, journalist over story
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Islands Business managing director Samisoni Pareti and journalist Nanise Volau have been questioned by Fiji police over a story published online...
Yogyakarta airport developers warned not to ‘steal’ people’s land
By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta
Indonesia's National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has demanded that state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I consider human...
Students reject new Yogyakarta airport, condemn forced evictions
By Ristu Hanafi in Yogyakarta
Protesters and students from Indonesia's Alliance against the Kulon Progo Airport have again demonstrated in front of the PT Angkasa...
Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure
Crucial to how Indonesia's news outlets cover the environment - and its destruction - is the ownership and vested interests of the media landscape. ...
Upgrade deadlock over Port Vila runway ends – China contract ok
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
In a late-night teleconference with senior government officials, World Bank representatives finally acquiesced to Vanuatu’s choice of bidder for...
Vanuatu airport runway repairs usher in new tourism era
A ceremony on Friday marked the completion of the first phase of rehabilitation for Vanuatu’s Port Vila Bauerfield Airport and ushered in a new...
NZ waits on fix-up plans for Vanuatu airport
By Len Garae in Port Vila
“New Zealand has been a strong supporter of tourism in this country and we are honoured to act...
Vanuatu airport crisis: Daily Post hits back on safety
Vanuatu Daily Post editorial today in response to the Vanuatu government attack over the newspaper exposing Port Vila's international airport safety issue.
THE PRICE OF...