Tag: Border Security
NZ detains three German yachties in Bay of Islands for defying...
By RNZ News
Three German yachtsmen - two men and a woman - have been detained after arriving in the Bay of Islands, in breach...
PNG says 175 returning workers from China followed protocols – 271...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government has clarified that 175 workers from China who have arrived in Port Moresby from...
‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats
By Katrina Tanirau in Avarua
Some Cook Islanders are expressing anger at the failure to implement stronger border control public health measures in response to...
NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says...
By RNZ News
The lack of testing of staff at New Zealand's border is extraordinary, a prominent epidemiologist says.
Health officials are frantically trying to trace...
NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand's coronavirus reality check last week is a "timely wake-up call" crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says...
Australian ‘soft power’ push in Pacific with $17m free TV deal...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Homegrown Australian television shows to the tune of $17.1 million will be broadcast in the Pacific...
