Tag: Freedom of Information

In this "PNG Diehard" citizen video last month, Papua New Guinea police are seen and heard open-firing at students from the University of PNG...

By Nasik Swami in Suva The Fiji government has called for expressions of interest from public relations firms since the contract for the US-based Qorvis...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu's Public Service Commission is forbidding government workers from accessing social media, Radio Vanuatu News reports today. This was decided...

By Nasik Swami in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has labelled the New Zealand media as "generally hostile". Speaking during the banquet to welcome New Zealand...

OPINION: By Crispin C. Maslog in Manila Let me start by saying I was not your best fan during the elections. I normally do not...

By Kalafi Moala in Nuku'alofa The man who was once jailed for his stand for press freedom in the kingdom of Tonga has now breached...

OPINION: By Professor Wadan Narsey Just living in Australia for a few months and watching television, makes you see clearly, how the Fiji public is...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has terminated the board of the national broadcaster Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation...

By Gayathry Venkiteswaran of IFEX An arrest of a university student for sedition and subsequent attacks against journalists covering the story in India sparked...

Report from IFEX By Gayathry Venkiteswaran Journalists have been killed in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in separate incidents that took place in January...

From Pacific Media Watch Vanuatu’s caretaker government has attacked the Vanuatu Daily Post for an outspoken editorial in Wednesday’s edition, entitled “The price of politics”,...

Video: Human Rights Watch Report by Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Indonesian government’s refusal to let French journalist Cyril Payen visit Indonesia...

Report by Pacific Media Centre A draft Indonesian Criminal Code amendment, condemed by critics as undermining freedom of speech, is interpreted to mean that burning...

Media freedom is about the right of the people to be informed, not just about media freedoms of journalists and news organisations. Kendall Hutt...