Tag: Corruption

By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Anti-corruption efforts in Papua New Guinea have received a major boost of €5.4 million (about K21.7 million) in funding...

By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has condemned the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) under the leadership of Firli Bahuri as an "authoritarian...

COMMENT: By Jackson Kiakari in Port Moresby I am from the Papua New Guinea generation that was born in the 1980s, raised in the 1990s...

By Jason Brown in Auckland Worldwide anti-corruption rankings – or first world whitewash? Long-standing questions about the fairness of corruption ratings and rankings from Transparency...

By Michael Field When the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, was hauled out of his Suva, Fiji, home this week and...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, has been committed to stand trial for charges of misappropriation and official corruption A Waigani...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk An Indonesian university student, Frans Josua Napitu, who reported his institution's rector (vice-chancellor) to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), has challenged...

COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Today, Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil and 12 other ministers in Papua New Guinea's James Marape government crossed...

By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Retired and serving police officers in Papua New Guinea are being investigated for alleged offences such as gun-smuggling, fraud...

COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer September 16 - yesterday - marked the 45th year of Independence for Papua New Guinea. It also marked just over a...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea's Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority,...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Controversial Papua New Guinea citizen Joe Chan has been arrested in Malaysia - this time under the name Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra. And...

Al Jazeera’s documentary on the plight of migrant workers during covid-19 lockdown. ANALYSIS: By Ross Tapsell, of the Australian National University The recent police interrogations of...

ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in...

By Katrina Tanirau in Avarua Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala...

Pacific Media Watch After three days of protests by hundreds of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific over the treatment...

By Jeremy Mogi in Lae Papua New Guinea police are investigating death threats against Lae City Authorit chief executive Neil Ellery. The threats were sent by...

Pacific Media Centre Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was granted bail last night at the Waigani National Court after being arrested by...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has been arrested after arriving back in the country. Police say O'Neill was arrested on...

COMMENT: Nik Naidu reflects on the 33rd anniversary of the original - first of four - coups in his homeland of Fiji. Today is the...

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the "absurd situation" in which Australian investigative journalist...

Pacific Media Watch An award-winning journalist whose reporting on a murder and corruption investigation got her deported from Malaysia has been prevented from boarding a...