Tag: Corruption
RSF condemns Philippines president-elect’s comments about journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is outraged by Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s comment that corrupt journalists are legitimate murder targets and urges the Philippine media...
Lecturers strike as students blockade campus at Papuan university
East New Britain Students Association members from the University of Papua New Guinea are calling on Prime Minster Peter O'Neill to step down and...
Pacific corruption-fighters worry over online database future
Jemima Garrett reporting for Pacific Beat
Journalists, lawyers and corruption-fighters are sounding the alarm as one of the Pacific's most comprehensive online databases faces an...
International students hit by UPNG suspension in response to protests
NBC's PNG Tonight reporter Mark Kayok reports on UPNG council's decision to indefinitely suspend semester 1 and the hostile response with a threat by...
PNG’s two universities contrast in management style over protests
Administrations at both of Papua New Guinea's two major universities have contrasting approaches to dealing with the national student standoff against the prime minister.
While...
Opposition Leader Basil challenges UPNG, supports student ballot
Opposition Leader Sam Basil speaking out in support of the University of Papua New Guinea students on EMTV.
By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby
Papua New...
PNG’s Basil calls for defence of free speech in student unrest
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
Opposition Leader Sam Basil says the freedom of speech that is enshrined in the Papua New Guinea constitution must...
PM O’Neill accuses Somare and Morauta of political ‘sour grapes’
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...
PNG judge arrested, charged with judicial corruption
Anti-corruption police have arrested and charged a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court judge with judicial corruption, reports Loop PNG.
Judge Bernard Sakora, 68, of the...
Panama Papers tax haven leak blow to NZ ‘corruption-free’ image, says...
Transparency International New Zealand has been warning the government about weaknesses in corporate ownership and trust legislation for more than 15 years, says the...
Vanuatu justice system alive and strong, says President Lonsdale
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
When officiating the oath of a new Supreme Court judge this week, President Baldwin Lonsdale took the opportunity to...
ABC Four Corners crew arrested over reporting Malaysian corruption allegations
An ABC Four Corners investigative programme crew has been detained by Malaysian police after trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak over a corruption...
‘Untouchable’ teen journalist challenges corruption at Indian rural schools
By Gregory Walsh
Nineteen-year-old Mukesh was born into a marginalised community in an impoverished region of rural India. Now he documents corruption in his region's...
Vanuatu opposition raises pardon for 14 jailed MPs issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Opposition has suggested to the Head of State, President Baldwin Lonsdale, that any decision to free 14 former...
NZ’s ‘corruption free’ perception ranking drops second year in row
Transparency International NZ
New Zealand has fallen to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index - the second consecutive drop in a survey...
KP Lew: It’s easy to be cynical … harder to fight...
Pacific Media Centre
By Kai Ping Lew
When Alistar Kata first asked if I would take part in this mini doco, The PMC Project, I was...
‘Clean up’ snap election upholds Vanuatu rule of law
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Catherine Putz of The Diplomat
Of Vanuatu’s 270,000 people, an estimated 200,000 turned up to vote in last Friday's snap...
Three Kalsakau brothers make Vanuatu political history – all elected
Report from Pacific Media Watch
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
For the first time in Vanuatu’s political history since 1980, three Kalsakau brothers from the...
Donors have opened up their hearts and wallets, but too often...
Report by Pacific Media Centre
Father Francis X. Hezel reviews a new book on climate change corruption and development in the Pacific. And the message...