Tag: Asia-Pacific
AJF’s Peter Greste presses for media freedom act to protect journalists
The Press Freedom Tracker launch video featuring Peter Greste and the tracker team. Video: AJF
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Peter Greste-fronted Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom...
PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the...
Gavin Ellis: The Pacific Media Centre must break free to survive
THE KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis
For many years I thought universities were the ideal place to establish centres of investigative journalism excellence. Now I’m...
Indonesian doctors challenge Jokowi’s claim pandemic is ‘under control’
By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta
Jakarta Indonesian Doctor's Association (IDI) chairperson Slamet Budiarto has challenged a statement by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who has claimed that...
China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia...
ANALYSIS: By James Laurenceson, University of Technology Sydney
Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years. But covid-19 has turbo-charged the...
China’s ‘mixed messages’ in Asia recipe for distrust, says academic
China’s rise in the Asia-Pacific region has the entire globe assessing how the future of the region might look. Delegates at February’s QS Summit...
Canberra’s new PM Morrison has little foreign policy, Pacific interest
By Susan Harris Rimmer in Brisbane
With all the focus this week on new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domestic challenges, less attention has been paid...
Journalists’ free alliance advocate calls on minister to use UN ‘leverage’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Australian journalist and academic who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison has welcomed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's...
Gallery: Bearing Witness journeys north …. to Fiji’s idyllic Rabi Island
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate project postgraduate student team Hele Ikimotu and Blessen Tom have just spent five days on...
Mackenzie Smith: Indonesia’s Pacific neglect highlights NZ media problem
OPINION: Mackenzie Smith reviews two months living in Indonesia as a journalist.
In Indonesia, I expected to broaden my understanding and realisation of Asia and...
PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre project students and interns announced for the year this week include two budding documentary makers and a seasoned...
Only 10% NZ school leavers ‘Asia-ready’ and just one-third ‘in zone’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Less than 10 percent of school leavers are "Asia-ready" and only 36 percent are "in the zone" when it comes to...
Call for action to defend women’s voices online in Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Asia-Pacific affiliates today demanded meaningful action against the growth of online harassment of women journalists in...
Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Biman Prasad
It has been interesting to read about Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama's intentions on COP23 (Conference of Parties 23) in...
