Tag: Public health
How will Wuhan coronavirus impact on political, global future of China?
Al Jazeera's Inside Story features the global coronavirus health emergency.
BACKGROUNDER: By Global Voices
What started at a seafood market as a local health issue...
PNG Media Council calls on state agencies to collaborate over virus
Pacific Media Watch
The Media Council of PNG has called on all state agencies involved in policing and securing the country's borders and people against...
NZ universities fear financial hit if students caught in virus travel...
By Harry Lock of RNZ News
New Zealand universities fear the temporary travel ban on foreigners from China due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is...
PNG students in Wuhan scared of coronavirus infection – call for...
By Benny Geteng in Rabaul
A Papua New Guinean student leader in the Chinese city of Wuhan says students fear for their lives with the...
Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages
By RNZ News
A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people...
Coronavirus: NZ homestays reject Chinese students over virus fears
By RNZ News
Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus.
Infections from the novel coronavirus...
Coronavirus: Pacific Islands ‘fighting a war’ on epidemics
Video report by RNZ Pacific.
RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports
In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme...
NZ coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan to be quarantined at unknown location
By RNZ News
New Zealanders evacuated from Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Aotearoa - not on Christmas Island like the Australians.
As...
Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan virus outbreak – panic
Rappler editorial
It’s not the virus. It’s not the Chinese flying into the Philippines. Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan crisis is panic.
Here's the situation:...
PNG shuts down Indonesian border post over coronavirus
By Stanley Ove Jnr in Port Moresby
The PNG Immigration and Citizenship Authority (PNGICA) has ordered a temporary shutdown of the Wutung border post with...
NZ investigates person who died after travelling to China for coronavirus
By RNZ News
The unexpected death of a person in New Zealand who recently travelled to China is being investigated for coronavirus, but a local...
Wuhan coronavirus: Unconfirmed reports of infected person in NZ
By RNZ News
New Zealand health authorities are following up reports of a person with coronavirus in the southern New Zealand tourism city of Queenstown.
RNZ...
Scott Waide: Let’s be honest! Nearly every PNG public health facility...
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide
In Lae City, Papua New Guinea's second-largest city, there are seven urban clinics, each serving between 100 and 150 patients a...
Timor-Leste finally has a government. But what happens now?
By Guteriano Neves in Dili
After nearly a year of political deadlock resulting from a minority government, and a divisive political campaign, Timor-Leste is set...
Waste colonialism and plastic pollution targeted in NZ ‘pure’ campaign
By Sylvia C. Frain in Auckland
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s status as a “wasteful country” is one of the targets of the PURE 2018 tour launched in...
Asian rights body calls for more action by Jakarta over Papuan...
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen was given exclusive access to report on the measles outbreak from Asatat, in Indonesia's Papua province.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Asian...
PNG faces ‘catastrophe’ over health if no crisis action taken, warns...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An unprecedented level of mismanagement of Papua New Guinea’s affairs since 2012 has caused serious health issues, including widespread suffering and...
Not enough funds for HIV/AIDS advocacy, says PNG cardinal
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
Lack of funds hampers addressing issues faced by the increasing number of people living with HIV in Papua New...
Philippines tries to reverse trend in new HIV detections
By Father Casibjorn Quia, Roy Abrahmn Narra and Jerome Villanueva in Manila
The year 2016 was a landmark year for the Philippines with HIV (human...
Cardinal Ribat calls on PNG churches to ‘work together’ over HIV
EMTV News reports on the HIV Summit in Port Moresby and other Papua New Guinean news.
By Annette Kora in Port Moresby
The first HIV Summit...
Indonesia on track to having world’s highest smoking rates
By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta
With few commitments to curb cigarette consumption, Indonesia is poised to have the largest population of smokers in the...
NZ could play key role in ending child detention, say refugee...
The Invisible Picture Show, an animation made by End Child Detention on Vimeo.
Basic rights for refugee children is an issue troubling some South-East Asian...