Tag: Visas
PNG warns foreigners to respect laws as businessman Pang blacklisted, deported
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has deported controversial Australian businessman Jamie Pang.
Surrounded by Immigration and Citizenship Authority officials and police, Pang...
Australia announces pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
The Australian government has announced a direct pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders, ending a tension between the...
Does public safety trump free speech? History’s case for banning anti-trans...
ANALYSIS: By Bevin Veale, Massey University
The impending arrival of Kelly-Jean Keen-Minshull -- aka Posie Parker -- has put the spotlight on the tension between...
Chinese worker’s absconding charge dropped but still to be deported
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Chinese worker who left police custody on the way to the airport on Thursday night had a charge of absconding...
Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea's Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority,...
NZ bars Australian investigative journalist working for Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch
An award-winning journalist whose reporting on a murder and corruption investigation got her deported from Malaysia has been prevented from boarding a...
Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was...
Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge
Pacific Media Watch
An American environmental journalist accused of violating the terms of his visa has been freed after three days in jail and is...
Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist
A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia.
By Michael Andrew in Jakarta
International journalists and agencies have condemned...
Indonesia steps up fight against foreign research biopiracy
By Hans Nicholas Jong and Moses Ompusunggu in Jakarta
Though it may sound like a conspiracy theory, the Indonesian government has taken seriously allegations that...
New visa-free agreement between EU and Micronesia
A new visa waiver has been established between the European Union and the Federated States of Micronesia which aims to boost tourism and invigorate business...
Indonesian tourist visa fee set to be scrapped for Australians
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta
The US$35 (A$49) visa fee Australian tourists must pay before entering Indonesia looks set to be finally scrapped after years...