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Coup Convict Looks For New Beginning in Fiji
Monday, 22 May 2006, 8:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Coup Convict Looks For New Beginning After Election Win http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/wansolnews/2006/elections2006/april/wansol1905061.html More >>
Veteran Fijian Journalist Dies At 64
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 9:40 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA: (Fiji Times Online/Pacific Media Watch): Veteran Fiji journalist and publisher Robert Keith-Reid died yesterday morning at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. He was on the road to recovery after surviving a by-pass operation and ... More >>
French Polynesian Murder Probe Sabotaged?
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 8:56 pm | Pacific Media Watch
French Polynesian Murder Probe Sabotaged From Inside - Claim http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=23992 More >>
Fiji Electoral Change - Gender Edition Of PJR
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 8:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND: (PJR/Pacific Media Watch): A media academic has called for an electoral change in Fiji to enable fairer participation for women in political life in an article published in the latest Pacific Journalism Review. More >>
Fiji Votes In Peace But Police Gear Up For Result
Friday, 12 May 2006, 9:02 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA: (The Age/PacnewsPacwin/Pacific Media Watch): As Fiji enters its fifth day of polling, the country's most senior police will meet in Suva on Saturday (13 May) to develop a 10-step, 12-month strategy for avoiding a fourth coup in 20 years. More >>
Fiji Labour Supporters Face Charges After Election
Friday, 12 May 2006, 9:00 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Five Fiji Labour Supporters Face Charges After Election Protest http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=24023 More >>
Fiji: Women Activists Cited For Possible Breaches
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 9:17 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA: (IFEX/Pacific Media Watch): Women activists are among those cited by Fiji's election office for possible breaches of the country's electoral laws that ban electioneering once polling has begun. More >>
Papua: Changing Pacific Attitude To Independence
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 8:53 pm | Pacific Media Watch
MELBOURNE: (RA Pacific Beat/Pacific Media Watch): Separatists from the Indonesian province of Papua are hoping Pacific island nations will make their cause an international issues. The Free Papua Movement, the OPM, has been fighting a low-level insurgency ... More >>
Rainbow Warrior Exposes Forest Destruction in Papu
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 8:50 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SORONG, Papua: (Greenpeace Pacific News/Pacific Media Watch): Greenpeace activists today discovered a consignment of plywood from some of the world's most endangered forests in Indonesia where at least 76% of logging is illegal (1), reports a Greenpeace ... More >>
Tahiti Pacifique Celebrates First 15 Years
Monday, 10 April 2006, 8:02 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PAPE'ETE: (Avaiki/Tahiti Presse/Pacific Media Watch): One of the region¹s longest running news magazines celebrated its 15th anniversary this month. More >>
Australia: PM Howard Has Spoof Website Closed Down
Monday, 3 April 2006, 8:39 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY: (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders voiced shock today at the methods used by the office of Australian Prime Minister John Howard to censor parody website johnhowardpm.org, on which political commentator Richard Neville posted ... More >>
Australia: Phone Tap Laws Threaten Press Freedom
Monday, 3 April 2006, 8:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SYDNEY: (MEAA/Pacific Media Watch): New laws, passed by the Senate yesterday, give law enforcement agencies power to intercept phone calls, emails and text messages of innocent people. This extreme surveillance law poses a severe threat to press ... More >>
Timor Leste Press Essential In Building Identity
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:57 pm | Pacific Media Watch
JAKARTA: (MEAA/Pacific Media Watch): A visitor to Dili who picked up Suara Timor Timur during Indonesian times would have found a solid 12-page newspaper published in one language: Indonesian. More >>
Fiji: Journalists Should Expose Racist Politicians
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 8:34 pm | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/USP/Pacific Media Watch): Journalists have been urged to expose racist politicians at a regional media and elections workshop at the University of the South Pacific. More >>
PacificL No TV News For New Caledonia
Monday, 27 March 2006, 8:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch
NOUMEA (Oceania Flash/Pacific Media Watch): New Caledonia's television viewers have once again been deprived of their daily television news, due to a strike staged by the local Kanak and Exploited Workers Union (USTKE). More >>
Fiji: Defamation During Elections, Journos Warned
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 5:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Beware Of Defamation During Elections, Journos Warned http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/wansolnews/2006/march/wansol2203061.html More >>
Journalists' Right To Keep Sources Confidential
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:13 pm | Pacific Media Watch
TOKYO (IFJ-Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has hailed last week's Tokyo High Court's decision as landmark in protecting media freedom in Japan. More >>
Bougainville Calls For Mercenaries End
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:41 pm | Pacific Media Watch
PORT MORESBY (The Age/AAP/Pacific Media Watch): Bougainville's president has called on the PNG and Fiji governments to stop Fijian mercenaries coming to the troubled island. More >>
Algerian Under A Death Sentence Fights Deportation
Monday, 20 March 2006, 9:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch
Algerian Under A Death Sentence Fights Deportation http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article351349.ece More >>
Kiribati Govt Denies Restricting Media Freedom
Monday, 20 March 2006, 8:51 pm | Pacific Media Watch
TARAWA (IFEX/PNS/Pacific Media Watch): The Minister for Communications in Kiribati claims media freedom is excellent despite the dismissal of a state radio journalist for not revealing his sources, Radio New Zealand International reports. More >>
