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Australia Seeks To Uncover Journalists' Sources

Friday, 12 November 2004, 10:11 am | Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY (MEAA/IFEX/Pacific Media Watch): Australia's media union condemns today's police raid on independent newspaper the National Indigenous Times to seize leaked departmental and cabinet documents. More >>

Papua Students Demonstrate For Self-Determination

Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch

GUNAWAN MASHAR, Makassar, Indonesia (Detik.com/Pacific Media Watch): The perpetual internal conflicts in West Papua has prompted students originating from Papua who are studying in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar to demonstrate ... More >>

PNG's Somare 'Glad' Aussie Journalist Detained

Thursday, 4 November 2004, 9:22 am | Pacific Media Watch

MELBOURNE (RA/PIR/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has reportedly defended the recent detention of an Australian journalist who was working on a story about the country¹s logging industry. More >>

Pacific Programme Sends Students To Fiji

Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 9:50 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (Jeanz Online/Pacific Media Watch): Two graduating New Zealand journalism students are off to Fiji next week for work placements on the Fiji Times and Islands Business, thanks to a new Pacific work placement award. More >>

SBS TV Reporter's Passport Seized

Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 10:51 am | Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY (SBS TV/Vikki John//Pacific Media Watch): Australian journalist Bronwyn Adcock had her passport seized on Friday by Papua New Guinean authorities while attempting to board her flight to Australia. More >>

Tagata Pasifika's Utanga Elected New Chief Of PIMA

Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 10:04 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (AUT Journalism/Pacific Media Watch): Cook Islander John Utanga is the new chairperson of New Zealand's Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA). More >>

Tongan Media Activist Wins Pima Freedom Award

Monday, 11 October 2004, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Tongan activist Alani Taione has been awarded the Pacific Islands Media Freedom Award for his role in defending the independent press in his island kingdom. More >>

PPM Files New Suit Against Tempo

Friday, 8 October 2004, 10:45 am | Pacific Media Watch

JAKARTA (Jakarta Post/Pacific Media Watch): Pemuda Panca Marga (PPM) youth organization has filed a new civil lawsuit against Tempo magazine, accusing the weekly of committing a felonious act in its coverage of the group. More >>

Book Launched On Algerian Asylum Seeker A Zaoui

Friday, 8 October 2004, 10:44 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND ( NZH/NZPA/Pacific Media Watch ): Four days after his Court of Appeal victory, Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui is back in the news. A book has been released which co-author Selwyn Manning, journalist and an editor of Scoop website, says outlines ... More >>

Pacific Support Needed For Foreshore Protest

Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:59 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (PIMA/Pacific Media Watch): A Pacific Island workshop on the Maori foreshore and seabed issue will be held this weekend during the annual Pacific Island Media Association (PIMA) conference in Auckland. More >>

In Aotearoa, It Is The Year Of Pasifika

Monday, 4 October 2004, 12:14 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (Lali Media/Pacific Media Watch): There¹s no denying 2004 is the year of Pasifika in Aotearoa --- and we still have three months to go. More >>

In Tonga, The King Must Take Responsibility

Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 9:13 am | Pacific Media Watch

AUCKLAND (Taimi 'o Tonga/Pacific Media Watch): Tonga¹s monarch King Taufa¹ahau Tupou IV must accept responsibility for his kingdom¹s intense political turmoil. More >>

IFJ Supports Herald Journalists' Collective Right

Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 8:57 am | Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY (IFJ-Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today expressed its support for New Zealand journalists fighting for their right ... More >>

Ex-Politician Sues Chaudhry

Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch

SUVA (Fiji Sun Online/Pacific Media Watch): Former National Federation Party parliamentarian Karam Chand Ramrakha has filed a libel writ against Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry and the National Farmers Union in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, ... More >>

Asian Defamation Cases Should Be Dropped Says IFJ

Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 9:39 am | Pacific Media Watch

Asian Defamation Cases Should Be Dropped And Laws Reformed, Says IFJ ifj@ifj-asia.org More >>

Tonga Argues Sovereignty In Free Press Trial

Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:37 am | Pacific Media Watch

NUKU'ALOFA (Matangi Tonga/PIR/Pacific Media Watch): Lawyers on both sides of a judicial review of the constitutionality of a law passed in Tonga last year limiting news media today argued over the government¹s right to restrict its citizens free speech. More >>