Tag: covid-19
Amidst coronavirus lockdown, biggest Philippines TV network goes off air
On Al Jazeera's The Listening Post this week: The Filipino government has forced local television network ABS-CBN off the air. Plus, covid-19 is used...
Former PM Helen Clark backs people’s vaccine as public good for...
By RNZ News
It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for covid-19 coronavirus is widely available, says former New...
Timor-Leste now ruled free of active cases of covid-19
By Robert Baird in Dili
Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say...
Java on ‘red alert’ as coronavirus deaths spike in Indonesia
By Ardila Syakriah, Arya Dipa, Asip Hasani and Suherdjoko in Jakarta/Bandung/Blitar/Semarang
Indonesia’s most populous island of Java has become the country’s epicentre of the...
Fiji High Court judge throws out ‘cruel’ fines for covid rule...
By RNZ Pacific
A High Court judge in Fiji has thrown out fines handed to 49 people who were caught breaching curfew or social gathering...
NZ’s new covid action: $50bn rescue fund in ‘once in a...
By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News
A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...
Gallery: The virus shackles are off … but where was the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New...
RIMPAC 2020 maritime exercises ‘all at sea’ as virus, protests put...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Quietly passing us by in these frenetic covid-19 coronavirus weeks as New Zealand takes a big step back to...
TAPOL condemns cancellation of early release for Jakarta Five prisoners
Pacific Media Centre
TAPOL has condemned the political decision to cancel the early release of five political prisoners that were arrested in Jakarta for demonstrating...
Senator outrages Tahiti government with ‘brutal virus crisis’ criticism
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...
‘Shut Freeport mine’ plea by Mimika regent after workers test positive
Pacific Media Watch
The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...
Doctors’ union wants answers over seven nurses infected at NZ hospital
By Katie Scotcher, reporter for RNZ News
A New Zealand doctors' union fears the Waitematā District Health Board is covering up mistakes that led to...
Pacific ‘hub’ Fiji keen to join NZ-Australia travel bubble
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji has put its hand up to join New Zealand and Australia's travel bubble amid the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
On Friday, New Zealand...
Could covid-19 spell the end of world mobility as we know...
ANALYSIS: By Vissia Ita Yulianto of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Jian-bang Deng of Tamkang University
Before the covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, the...
PNG courts reopen with ‘new normal’ of no-mask-no-entry policy
By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National and Supreme Court sittings in Waigani, NCD, resumed under the “new normal” yesterday - no...
Ardern unveils staggered NZ move to alert level 2 – but...
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and...
30 media freedom groups, academics, journalists protest over TV shutdown
Pacific Media Watch
More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest...
NZME makes offer to buy rival Stuff for nominal $1
By RNZ News
NZME is insisting a deal for it to purchase media rival Stuff is still on the cards, despite Stuff's owner saying it...
Was NZ’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make the difference
By Kris Gledhill of Auckland University of Technology
As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether...
Eco-tourism major key to ‘tricky’ Pacific economic reset, says Leary
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
As New Zealand prepares to go to alert level 2 in the...
Former PNG Defence Force chief calls for inquiry after policeman killed
Pacific Media Watch
Former Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Jerry Singirok has condemned the killing of a senior police officer allegedly by off-duty soldiers.
He...
Two new confirmed cases of covid-19 reported in New Zealand
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported another two new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the global coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Health has revealed.
There...