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New Bougainville President by Tomorrow: Pihei
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:28 am | Pacific Media Watch
BUKA (The National Online/Pacific Media Watch): The President for the Bougainville Autonomous Government will be known by midday tomorrow, says Bougainville Election Manager Mathias Pihei. More >>
Samoa FM Station Claims Unfair Treatment
Friday, 27 May 2005, 10:52 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (SO/Pacific Islands Report/Pacific Media Watch): A February complaint by Radio Polynesian Limited, claiming unfair competition from state-owned Samoa Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), has yet to draw a reply. More >>
PCRC Announces New Director
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (PCRC/Pacific Media Watch): The executive board of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement and the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tupou Vere to the position of director. More >>
Groups Call For End Of Pacific Trade Negotiations
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 9:33 am | Pacific Media Watch
New Report On Pacific EPA Calls For End To 'Russian Roulette' In Trade Negotiations With Pacific More >>
New Coup Plotters Face Regional Military Strike
Friday, 13 May 2005, 9:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
* Pacific Media Watch Online - check the website for archive and links: www.pmw.c2o.org * Post a comment on this story at PMW's Right of Reply: www.voy.com/166636/ More >>
Solomon Islands Rapped for Weak Role
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 10:44 am | Pacific Media Watch
HONIARA (/SIBC Online/Pacific Media Watch/): A veteran Solomon Islands journalist has turned a harsh eye on his own profession, saying the country?s media did little to impede the crime and corruption that took root in the Solomons after 1999. More >>
Pacific: The Case For Better Watchdogs
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 10:32 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific media commentator David Robie's new book, Mekim Nius, makes a strong case about the need for journalists in the region to receive education and training to help them become more credible and effective ... More >>
Philippines Special Report
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 10:30 am | Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has released a shocking report on the impunity enjoyed by killers and those who ordered the murders of 52 journalists since the return to democracy to the Philippines in ... More >>
USP Journalism Students Scoop National Media Award
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 10:17 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): Two University of the South Pacific student journalists won a major Fiji national media award at a ceremony last night. More >>
Fiji TV Protects Source
Friday, 22 April 2005, 11:14 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Times Online/Pacific Media Watch): A Fiji television company yesterday refused to yield to police pressure and reveal the name of the officer who allegedly leaked a police statement central to the 2000 coup investigations that mysteriously ... More >>
Timorese Journalists Concern At Proposed Media Law
Monday, 18 April 2005, 11:52 am | Pacific Media Watch
DILI (Internews Timor Leste/Pacific Media Watch): Timorese journalists, lawyers and MPs met in Dili on March 22 to debate media freedom and Timor-Leste's draft penal code at a seminar entitled "Media law and human rights" (Lei media ho direitus ... More >>
Journalist In Davao Arrested Over Defamation Suit
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:59 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (CMFR/IFEX/Pacific Media Watch): On 29 March 2005, a local Philippine radio commentator was ordered arrested by a court as a result of a defamation suit in Davao Oriental, Southern Mindanao. More >>
Disappeared Politician's Widow Demands Inquiry
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
RAROTONGA (ANA/Pacific Media Watch): Fallout is spreading from the alleged 1997 drowning murder of Tahiti-based investigative journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud. More >>
IFJ Report Into 66 Media Deaths In Philippines
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:53 am | Pacific Media Watch
MANILA (IFJ Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has released its report into the alarming number of journalists killed in the Philippines, concluding that a culture of violence, encouraged by government inaction, ... More >>
Tahiti: Investigation On The GIP's Mission
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:36 am | Pacific Media Watch
PAPE'ETE (Oceania Flash/Pacific Media Watch): French Polynesia's armed "intervention group" GIP is currently undergoing a low-key police investigation, especially over its alleged intelligence unit. More >>
Fiji Tv Makes F$5.2 Million Profit
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:25 am | Pacific Media Watch
SUVA (Fiji Times Online/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji Television Ltd made a trading profit of $5.2 million for the six months ending December 31, 2004. More >>
Philippines: 2 More Die In Wave Of Media Killings
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 9:00 am | Pacific Media Watch
The wave of killings that last year made the Philippines the most dangerous media hot-spot after Iraq is continuing into 2005, says the International Federation of Journalists with the shooting of two journalists in recent days that brings the death ... More >>
People's Representatives Dominate Tongan Election
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:57 am | Pacific Media Watch
NUKU'ALOFA (Matangi Tonga/PIR/Pacific Media Watch): The front pages of the newspapers published in Tonga this week have been dominated by stories coming from the campaigns of incumbent People's Representatives for Tongatapu - ŒAkilisi Pohiva, Feleti Sevele ... More >>
Tonga Reinforces Ban On Michael Field
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:05 am | Pacific Media Watch
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Tonga's royal government has reinforced an immigration ban on Pacific journalist Michael Field. More >>
Cook Islands: Govmedia Disappears
Monday, 14 March 2005, 10:09 pm | Pacific Media Watch
AVARUA, Rarotonga (/Avaiki Nius Agency/Pacific Media Watch/): The Cook Islands government has yet to name a replacement for its media relations office. More >>
