Tag: Corruption

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Three staffers from Papua New Guinea's peak anti-corruption body are embroiled in a standoff that has brought into...

ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems...

RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act...

By Vijay Narayan, news editor of Fijivillage News Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The...

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...

Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Acting Public Prosecutor has filed an appeal against the sentences of former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended police chief Sitiveni Qiliho...

Asia Pacific Report Up to 50 anti-corruption activists and former employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have sent letters to several Indonesian political party...

RNZ Pacific With Indonesia preparing for elections next week, Human Rights Watch has sought answers from the three groups vying for the presidency on how...

By Al Williams of the Cook Islands News Cook islands Deputy Prime Minister Robert Tapaitau, former National Environment Service (NES) director Nga Puna, and his...

By RNZ Pacific's Christina Persico Transparency International says the latest Corruption Perception Index shows another year of "little to no meaningful progress" towards curbing corruption in...

The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's government has appealed to the Australian Federal Police and the Singapore Police to assist PNG police...

By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...

RNZ Pacific Transparency International Papua New Guinea has welcomed the conviction of lawyer Paul Paraka as the police confirm they are widening the investigation into...

EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea's Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...

PNG Post-Courier Dissident Papua New Guinean politician and former cabinet minister Bryan Kramer has vowed to fight on in his campaign against corruption, saying the...

ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh in Suva The long-running row between the former Fiji government and the Suva-based regional University of the South Pacific (USP)...

By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent The President of the Federated States of Micronesia has made a series of disturbing claims against China, including alleging...

RNZ Pacific Indonesian anti-curruption authorities have arrested Papua Governor Lukas Enembe on allegations of bribery. The Jakarta Globe called the arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission...

RNZ Pacific France's highest court has revived French Polynesia's largest corruption case, which had been closed almost more than three years ago. Eight people, including former...

By Agus Rahmat in Jakarta Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has condemned the phenomena of former corruption convicts becoming active again in political parties after serving...