Tag: Tradition
Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist
Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement...
Yap’s traditional chiefs seek to expel, gag probing US journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Traditional chiefs, members of the Council of Pilung from the four main islands of Yap, have written to the Yap Legislature...
Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing
By Kendall Hutt
A small, enthusiastic crowd gathered among the shelves of one of Auckland’s libraries earlier this week to listen to a lively and...
Pacific Voices: Fijian language week celebrations honour the past
Fijian language week celebrations over the weekend addressed the revival of the language for future generations in New Zealand. But the past was not forgotten....
Tanna hosts Vanuatu’s first ‘slow foods’ festival – big success
A Café Pacific video at the Tupunis festival on Tanna island.
By Odile Guiomar in Lenakel, Tanna
Tanna Island has hosted the first Slow Food festival...
Vanuatu’s Romeo and Juliet epic Tanna nominated for Oscars
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Tanna, the movie shot on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, has been picked by Screen Australia as its official entry for...
PNG’s famous Raun Raun theatre and national film base under threat
National Broadcasting Corporation News of Papua New Guinea video report by Bradley Gregory on PNG Tonight.
Two of the most renowned cultural centres in the...