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Tonga MP Suspended From Parliament
Sunday, 22 August 2010, 1:44 pm | Pacific Media Watch
NUKU'ALOFA (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): Tongan pro-democracy MP Akilisi Pohiva says he will leave it to the people to decide if his two week-suspension from Parliament is just. More >>
TV Reporter Killed During Group Clash In Maluku
Sunday, 22 August 2010, 11:39 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Pacific Media Watch): Ridwan Salamun, a news contributor for SUN TV network, was found dead during a clash between group in Tual, Southeast Maluku on Saturday morning. More >>
IFJ Worried By Threat Against Newspaper
Friday, 20 August 2010, 4:47 pm | Pacific Media Watch
DILI International Federation of Journalists/Pacific Media Watch: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed at a threat made against well-known Timor-Leste media organisation Tempo Semanal. More >>
Tension Remains On Easter Island
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 4:23 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Easter Island’s provincial governor is reported to have resigned amid a dispute about independence from Chile. The Santiago Times says Pedro Edmunds Paoa resigned for personal reasons as indigenous protesters occupied disputed property. More >>
Fiji Academic Doubts People Will Drop Fijian
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 4:19 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A Fiji academic says people are unlikely to adopt the word iTaukei to describe indigenous Fijians. A recent decree by the interim government will change all written laws by replacing the word "Fijian" wherever it appears with the word "iTaukei". More >>
Commentators Critical Over Relevance Of Forum
Sunday, 15 August 2010, 11:21 am | Pacific Media Watch
Issues such as growing foreign ownership of Vanuatu land, funding cuts to Pacific campaigns against domestic violence and specifics on inter-island trade all remain “unvoiced”. More >>
2 Reporters Found Dead, Threats Escalate
Sunday, 15 August 2010, 11:15 am | Pacific Media Watch
1 journalist's body was found in a river, another died mysteriously in his home, and a third has received a death threat written in blood. Indonesian journalists are under deadly pressure for reporting on environmental degradation and local politics More >>
Media Group Will Have No Relationship With Pina
Friday, 13 August 2010, 4:21 pm | Pacific Media Watch
RAROTONGA: One of the founders of a new media organisation says it will have no relationship with the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA). More >>
AJI Finds 40 Cases Of Violence Against Media
Friday, 13 August 2010, 3:13 pm | Pacific Media Watch
From August 2009 to August 2010, the Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (Alliance of Independent Journalists - AJI) documented 40 cases of violence against journalists in Indonesia, compared to the 38 cases recorded in 2008-2009. More >>
Pacific Media Association Launched
Friday, 13 August 2010, 3:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch
APIA: The Pacific Media Association (PacMA) was formed in Apia, Samoa, today at a meeting of media representatives from around the Pacific region. In attendance were media operators from Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands and Hawai‘i. More >>
Movie Ban Appeal Rejected By Jakarta Court
Sunday, 8 August 2010, 11:34 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA: The Jakarta Administrative Court on Thursday rejected the Alliance of Independent Journalist's appeal to overturn the ban on the Australian film 'Balibo'about the deaths of six journalists in East Timor. More >>
Papua Press Face Threats And Violence
Sunday, 8 August 2010, 11:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA/KUPANG: Papuan journalists called on police Tuesday to thoroughly investigate acts of intimidation and violence against them, believed to be part of a campaign by candidates eliminated from the upcoming regional elections in Merauke. More >>
Papua Shocking Video Was Made On Purpose: Police
Sunday, 8 August 2010, 11:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA: Indonesian National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang confirmed Thursday the video showing a Papuan prisoner lying in a jungle with his abdomen sliced open, allegedly by a bayonet, was intentionally made. More >>
McCully Blames Media
Friday, 6 August 2010, 4:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT VILA (Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has blamed the New Zealand media for the failure in the Forum Ministerial Contact Group to re-engage with Fiji. More >>
Fiji Media Watch Maps Plan
Sunday, 1 August 2010, 12:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Civil society organisation Fiji Media Watch organised an orientation session with board members yesterday on its new strategic programme 2010-2013. This follows the official launch of a new project titled "A Free and Responsible Fiji Media Environment" More >>
Fijilive Still Offline After Questioning Of Editor
Sunday, 1 August 2010, 12:20 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Leading independent web-based Fiji news service Fijilive.com was still offline early today after police questioned its news editor. Fijilive was left off the new media registry and its news outlet has a whiteout with a two-word message - "website unavailable". More >>
Pakistan: The Air Force is running a torture cell
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 3:40 pm | Pacific Media Watch
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report of the torture of six persons from a Christian family by officials of the Pakistan Air Force. The arrest and torture continued for a period of 18 days and was due to the suspicion that they ... More >>
Journalist Missing, Others Attacked
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 3:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A Filipino journalist went missing shortly after reporting to the police that a provincial governor and his followers had mauled two members of a TV news crew, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). More >>
Call for a New Pacific Free Press Approach
Monday, 3 May 2010, 11:51 pm | Pacific Media Watch
A Cook Islands free press advocate has called for news activists to borrow a leaf out of the regional HIV/AIDS campaign book to give Pacific news media a new bill of health. More >>
Triumph For Solomons' Unwritten Language
Friday, 5 March 2010, 6:14 pm | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): Compiling a book on leading women in Solomon Islands is no easy thing when a major language in the country - pijin blong Solomon, or Solomons Pidgin - is only a spoken language. More >>
