Tag: covid-19

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. A rather beautiful...

By RNZ News Women's Refuge says lockdown worries and family strains are resulting in high demand at many of their services right now. Chief executive Ang...

ANALYSIS: By Haiqing Yu of RMIT University and Michael Keane of Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Otago University will not respond to questions from Critic, the student magazine on campus, during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown. The decision...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Wilson Every day at 1pm New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announces precise figures on the number of confirmed and...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Media on both sides of the Tasman face apocalyptic times as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic decimates...

Pacific Media Watch The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) has strongly condemned the shoot-to-kill order by President Rodrigo Duterte this week...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch The Vanuatu government is using the Covid-19 to impose draconian measures and authoritarian rule by end of last...

By Indra Singh in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says that if Fijians continue to disregard the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic directives from authorities, a nationwide...

By RNZ News The publisher of some of New Zealand's best known magazines has folded amid the economic fallout from the national coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Bauer...

Pacific Media Watch Launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Tracker 19” is a tool made for an unprecedented global crisis. So named in reference not only...

By RNZ News New Zealanders in their 20s are the age group with the biggest numbers of Covid-19 and are "the vector for transmission", says...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga Prime Minister Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa says an aircraft which was expected to arrive in Tonga this week with medical...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has eased restrictions on the media industry in New Zealand during the four-week lockdown, saying it was not...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Pacific governments across the region have put side their differences with media and are working alongside them in...

By RNZ News The Auckland girl's secondary school Marist College has New Zealand's biggest Covid-19 cluster with 47 confirmed and probable cases. It is the biggest...

By Elias Nanau in Vanimo Indonesia has issued a stern warning over illegal border crossers from Papua New Guinea. This follows Indonesia stepping up its security...

By Imelda V. Abano in Manila The novel coronavirus now sweeping the globe has left many countries struggling to cope with rising numbers of infections...

By John Gerritsen of RNZ News The $5 billion foreign student industry is facing a massive downturn with as many as half of this year's...

The South African 'Don't Panic Buy' jingle. Video: ENCA/PickNSave PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part...

By Simon Eroro in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea will have only one press release in the afternoons at 4:00pm daily to give updates on...

COMMENTARY: By Bob Howarth (self-isolating in Australia after his latest trip to Timor-Leste) After days of web surfing for Covid-19 coronavirus news around the Asia-Pacific,...