Tag: Coronavirus

By RNZ News The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have agreed to ease travel restrictions between the two countries as soon as it is...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch After nearly five weeks of alert level 4 covid-19 lockdown and a...

By RNZ News The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report...

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 Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...

By RNZ Pacific New Zealanders left behind in India are asking for additional repatriation flights to evacuate them, after the government did not have enough...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch The jailing of the Jakarta Six – five Papuans and the first Indonesian to...

On World Press Freedom Day, Mar-Vic Cagurangan, editor and publisher of the Pacific Island Times, questions Guam's information management of the media amid the...

By Bernadette Carreon, RNZ Pacific Palau correspondent Palau's President says the World Health Organisation's neglect of Taiwan has endangered, not only Taiwanese, but people everywhere. In...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday -  and one further death in the...

EDITORIAL: By Kaniva News staff Last month’s announcement by Minister for Pacific Peoples 'Aupito William Sio that overstayers qualify for health care during the covid-19...

A clip from the SOE Controller's media conference. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea expects a spike of covid-19 cases this month -...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi reporter of RNZ News Community checkpoints have garnered support from New Zealand local councils, police and hundreds of...

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...

By Basten Gokkon of Mongabay Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a  sweeping lockdown in an attempt to minimise the...

By RNZ News An immigration consultant is warning an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants. About...

By António Sampaio in Dili Xanana Gusmão, president of the second largest Timorese party, has criticised the decision to extend Timor-Leste's state of emergency, considering...

By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...

By Chris Tyler of UCL and Peter Gluckman of Koi Tū Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job...

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned an op-ed by a pro-government military commander in Fiji last week defending curbs on freedom of...

By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta When the first covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases were detected in Indonesia, one doctor at least knew right away that...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The collapse of tourism across the world in the face of the covid-19...