Tag: Development

RNZ Pacific With Indonesia preparing for elections next week, Human Rights Watch has sought answers from the three groups vying for the presidency on how...

By Joy Olali and Max Oraka Papua New Guinea’s literacy rate stands at 63.4 percent -- the lowest in the Pacific -- with the government...

REVIEW: By David Robie The 4300-km Trans-Papua Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring “wealth, development and prosperity” to the isolated regions of...

By Bruce Lloyd in Guam Pacific Island Times Yap-based correspondent Joyce McClure won't be kicked off the island as "persona non grata" as demanded by...

By Leilani Sitagata of Pacific Media Watch The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s cutback in services to the Asia-Pacific region has “weakened the thin link” that many...

By Sylvester Gawi in Singapore I hope you are reading this with ease and a positive mindset to help change the course of this beautiful...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters flags a stronger NZ Pacific aid policy and prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Malcolm Turnbull discuss New Zealand and Australia...

OPINION: By Chris Overland in Adelaide Recently, Keith Jackson's PNG Attitude has been publishing a discussion on some of the unhappy events that occurred as...

Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...

Crucial to how Indonesia's news outlets cover the environment - and its destruction - is the ownership and vested interests of the media landscape. ...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The European Union and the Pacific Community have signed an agreement to build resilience to future El Niño-related droughts in the...

By Delly Waigeno in Port Moresby Another major road construction in Port Moresby, the Koura Way, is expected to be completed in September. It is being...

By Julianna Waeda in Kerema, Papua New Guinea Although linked by road to Papua New Guinea's capital of Port Moresby and Waigani, Gulf province continues...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Climate change is the central focus of the European Union’s continuing relationship with the Pacific, says the international cooperation chief. Stefano...

By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...

By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano and Jerome P. Villanueva in Manila Curbing illegal drugs "holistically" is now an explicit mandate as provided by the Philippines government’s...

By Viriya P. Singgih and Grace D. Amianti in Jakarta The Indonesian government has approved the conversion of the contracts of gold and copper miner...

By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea government representatives have met with landowner leaders of Hides PLD1 and PLD7 natural gas field...

By Gareth Tredway The Indonesian government’s mining ministry is said to have recommended the granting of a new short-term export permit to Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg mine...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has denied making a deal with Rio Tinto to take up the Bougainville Copper Limited shares offloaded...

ANALYSIS: By La'o Hamutuk in Dili Timor-Leste signed a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement this month with the French company Bolloré to build and operate a...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has instructed Infrastructure Minister Jotham Napat to negotiate the second phase of the Chinese-funded...