Tag: Culture

By Michael Norris in Wellington After a week-long controversy, New Zealand’s public broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) has withdrawn a proposal to axe its classical...

By Charlotte Muru-Lanning in Auckland A Tongan group visited Ihumātao to show solidarity with the occupation of the land by mana whenua who greeted them with...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand and Filipino teachers, community advocates and students this week launched an open letter appealing to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte...

By Joe Torres in Manila An Indonesian tribal rights activist, a Sri Lankan woman who has helped civil war victims, and a Japanese man working...

Six stages, four days, 214 groups from more than 60 schools, 10,000 performers and up to 40,000 spectators ... The four-day festival of Māori,...

The Moana trailer ... "magical but also our reality." REVIEW: By Vaimoana Tapaleao of The New Zealand Herald You know the film is something special when...

By Abdul Qowi Bastian Sri Bintang Pamungkas was arrested in his home in Cibubur, in the outskirts of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, on early Friday morning,...

The new video Sorong Samara. Video: The Rize Of The Morning Star While Indonesian authorities tried to brutally suppress West papua "independence day" rallies across...

The Whau Pacific Festival is a four-day event celebrating Pacific culture and art. Held in the west Auckland suburb of Avondale this year, workshops included...

Oceania Interrupted challenged media educators and journalists from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region to raise the profile of West Papua as a human...

Now that the Festival of Pacific Arts is over, what happens next? The promotion and preservation of culture doesn't stop, reports Kuam News in...

Language and culture can tell us a lot about where we come from. For these New Zealand-born Samoans, this at the heart of truly...

Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday - and the role...

Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...

Report by Pacific Media Centre <!-- --> Tongan newspaper publisher Kalafi Moala says bureaucracy, culture and religion are a “triune of power” standing in the way of...