Tag: security
Snipers, secret service, special forces fly into PNG for superpower visit
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s airspace will be closed for four hours with tight security for when US President Joe Biden...
PNG police launch communications command centre for general election
EMTV News bulletin on the Highlands joint security forces parade in Mt Hagen.
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
Papua New Guinea's police have opened the first...
PNG police set to launch Highlands election security operation
Glenda Popot of TVWan News reports on the PNG elections campaign trail. Video: TVWan News
By Annette Kora in Mount Hagen
Papua New Guinea's Highlands region...
PNG police chief stands down expat security contractor over ‘illegals’
Pacific Media Centre News Desk
A group of United States security contractors engaged by Papua New Guinea's police chief to give firearms training have been...
Indonesia’s tug-of-war: The age of pseudo-military leaders rolls on
ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2)
Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...
Hager calls for more ‘inclusion, transparency’ by ministries
By John Gibb of the Otago Daily Times
Some New Zealand government ministries risk being damaged in the long term by their refusal, at times,...
‘You have been warned – no civil disobedience’, say PNG police
Papua New Guinean police have assured residents of Port Moresby that it will be business as usual today, and that officers will be out...
Police on UPNG campus for ‘student safety’, says metro chief
By Michael Guba in Port Moresby
National Capital District Metropolitan Superintendent Benjamin Turi says police visibility at the University of Papua New Guinea campus is...
Jokowi pledges to sort past rights cases but ignores Papua
Report by Pacific Media Watch
By Ayomi Amindoni and Victor Mambor in Jayapura
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of Indonesia has expressed a commitment to resolve a...
#COP21: Fingers point as threat from Papuan forest fires increases
Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
While countries consider their climate change options for the future at COP21 in Paris, forest fires and the ensuing...