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Spy Monitor Can Probe Timor Records Loss
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 11:24 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The official monitor of Australia's intelligence agencies had the power to investigate the apparent disappearance of intelligence information relating to the 1975 killing of five Australian-based newsmen at Balibo in East Timor, a senior official said ... More >>
Solomon Islands Govt Introduces Internal Media Ban
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 11:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands (WP): The Solomon Islands Government has introduced an internal media ban on information from the government related to the ethnic conflict between the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF) and Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM) militia. More >>
Files Show Australian Govt Lied About Timor Deaths
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 10:59 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
CANBERRA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Secret files released on Tuesday show the Australian government lied about its knowledge of the murder of five journalists in East Timor weeks before Indonesia invaded in late 1975, political analyst Des Ball said. More >>
Fiji Times Letter Warns Democracy Supporters
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 9:43 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Pro-democracy supporters in the Fiji Islands were warned today that they risked unleashing a "massive onslaught of fundamentalists and radical Fijians" in the country. More >>
Militant faction prepared to release pilot
Tuesday, 19 September 2000, 8:44 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands (WP): The breakaway faction of the Guadalcanal’s Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM) is preparing to release the Solomon Airlines pilot held hostage since Saturday. More >>
Interim administration 'in bid to cling to power'
Tuesday, 19 September 2000, 8:42 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The global community can see through Fiji's military-backed interim administration - perceiving it to be a group of people trying to control political power for a long time, says an outspoken political commentator. More >>
Guadalcanal Militants Refuse To Release Aircraft
Monday, 18 September 2000, 9:05 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon islands (WP): The Solomon Islands government yesterday once again failed to persuade hijackers of a Solomon Airlines aeroplane to release the aircraft and its pilot. More >>
Fiji Times reporter wins PMI scholarship to USP
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Matelita Ragogo, a Fiji Times reporter who has been studying part-time at the University of the South Pacific, has won an AusAID Pacific Media Initiative scholarship to attend campus fulltime this semester, the USP journalism newspaper Wansolwara ... More >>
Dakuvula warns of tougher sanctions against Fiji
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:37 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji faces tougher international sanctions if the military-installed interim Prime Minister refuses to support a government of national unity with the deposed coalition government, warns constitutional advocate Jone Dakuvula. More >>
FIJI: Bomb defused near treason court
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's military forces and police were today planning tougher security measures following the discovery of a home-made bomb outside the Suva courthouse on Friday, news reports said. More >>
SOLOMON IS: Militants hijack Solair aircraft
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Islands (WP): A breakaway faction within the Guadalcanal militants group, Isatabu Freedom Movement, has hijacked a Solomon Airlines aircraft and its pilot yesterday. More >>
TIMOR: Newsman's mother wants son left in peace
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:33 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The mother of Australian newsman Tony Stewart who was shot dead in East Timor in 1975 yesterday broke her 25-year silence to plead for her son to be left in peace. More >>
TIMOR: UN police race time to lay Balibo charges
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:33 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
United Nations police in East Timor have opened a formal investigation into the 1975 killing of five Australian-based journalists at Balibo and say they may lay charges within the next month. More >>
Fiji Information Minister praises media standards
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:29 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Fiji's interim Information and Communications Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola has praised improving journalism standards in the media industry in a wide-ranging interview with a local daily newspaper. More >>
FM96 owner says radio host 'merely speculating'
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:27 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): The owner of a radio station employing a controversial announcer criticised by Fiji's military forces has defended his FM96 breakfast show host as "merely speculating and commenting" on media reports, according to the Fiji Times newspaper. More >>
TIMOR: UN opens inquiry into 1975 Baliboj-killings
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:26 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
DILI, East Timor (AP)--The U.N. has opened an investigation into the deaths of five foreign newsmen killed during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, a U.N. official said Friday. More >>
Military Volunteers Turn Spotlight On Unemployment
Sunday, 17 September 2000, 4:24 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: More than 3000 hopefuls have reportedly flocked to the Fiji military headquarters in the hope of being signed up as new army recruits, prompting a warning by a daily newspaper about the post-coup unemployment crisis. More >>
Broadcaster Warned By Military
Friday, 15 September 2000, 11:01 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Fiji's military forces have warned a local broadcaster who has had controversial links with the insurrection forces led by detained rebel George Speight to stop his attacks which "ridicule" the army, according to the Daily Post newspaper. More >>
Internal Refugees Threaten, Abuse Fiji Times
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 10:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A Fiji Times vehicle was hit by an object after being threatened with stones, and a reporter and photographer were sworn at by an official and people sheltering at a Fiji Islands internal refugee camp at the western town of Lautoka, the Fiji ... More >>
Solomon Is Govt Secretly Pays Funds To MEF Lawyer
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 10:01 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Is (WP): The Solomon Islands government has secretly paid SBD$113,000 to the leader and lawyer of the ethic Malaita militia, the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF), Andrew Nori, reports Wantok Press. More >>
