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USP students make UNESCO TV Series
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 9:57 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A series of regional television news items on sustainable development made by journalism students is currently being shown on SPC's high-rating regional show Pacific Way. More >>
Journalist Field Speaks Out Against Kiribati Ban
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 9:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND, New Zealand: A New Zealand journalist, who has been prevented from entering Kiribati to cover next month's Pacific Islands Forum meeting, says the ban will tarnish the country's international reputation. More >>
Radio Pasifik On Air Again After Funds Row
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 9:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Radio Pasifik, the student radio station of the regional University of the South Pacific, has reopened following months of controversy and unpaid bills. More >>
Ahmed Slates Tribunal
Wednesday, 13 September 2000, 1:56 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Former assistant home affairs minister Gaffar Ahmed yesterday criticised the tribunal investigating the role of Fiji's Police Chief Isikia Savua in the May 19 coup, the Fiji Times reports. More >>
Balibo Documents 'Almost Funny', Says Widow Shackl
Wednesday, 13 September 2000, 10:45 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PERTH, Sept 12 AAP: The widow of murdered Australian reporter Greg Shackleton today described newly-released documents about the 1975 killings of [four Australians and a New Zealander] in East Timor as "almost funny" and "Basil Fawlty-ish". More >>
The Untold Story Of The Balibo Five
Wednesday, 13 September 2000, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The depressing saga of Australian efforts to establish the fate of the five Australia-based TV reporters killed in Balibo illustrates the bind that Australian diplomats had created for themselves. More >>
Ravuvu Quiet Over Post Row
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 11:42 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's interim administration-appointed committee endorsed by the Great Council of Chiefs to review the 1997 Constitution has provoked a controversy, the USP journalism newspaper Wansolwara reports. More >>
Bune Defends People's Coalition
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 11:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Deposed Forests Minister Poseci Bune has rejected claims by Fiji's interim Information Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola that the People's Coalition no longer exists, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
Fiji TV Wants Exclusive Licence Extended
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 12:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Moves are underway to extend Fiji Television's exclusive licence for another four years, reports the Daily Post. More >>
Usp Bails Out Radio
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 12:45 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: University authorities will bail out student-owned Radio Pasifik which has been closed this semester because of the failure of the student union to pay its operation payment arrears, the USP journalism newspaper Wansolwara reports. More >>
Plea For Academic Freedom
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 12:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Academic staff and a former leading professor have appealed to University of the South Pacific authorities to continue to safeguard academic freedom, the USP journalism newspaper Wansolwara reports. More >>
Nz Minister Supports Banned Journalist
Monday, 11 September 2000, 4:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff has called on Kiribati to lift its ban on Agence France-Presse correspondent Michael Field attending next month's Pacific Forum, according to news reports. More >>
Gwalese Start Internal Refugee Camp In The West
Monday, 11 September 2000, 4:20 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Solomon Is: Displaced ethnic Guadalcanal people who fled the war-torn national capital of the Solomons, Honiara, are now building an internal refugee camp in the Western Solomons. More >>
Indo-Fijian leaders want government of unity
Sunday, 10 September 2000, 10:52 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Indo-Fijian leaders have defiantly rejected any move towards a review of Fiji's 1997 multiracial constitution and unanimously called for a "government of national unity" formed by elected members of the deposed Parliament. More >>
FIJI: Goff tells Fiji: 'Don't change constitution'
Sunday, 10 September 2000, 10:32 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has slated Fiji's interim administration over its plan to change the widely accepted 1997 Constitution, saying that the regime has no mandate. More >>
USP students make UNESCO TV series
Sunday, 10 September 2000, 10:30 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A series of regional television news items on sustainable development made by journalism students is currently being shown on SPC's high-rating regional show Pacific Way. More >>
Daily Post condemns Information Minister's attack
Sunday, 10 September 2000, 10:29 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Daily Post condemned Information Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola today for his attack on a visiting Australian trade unionist and told him to "get real" over the country's political crisis. More >>
Kubuabola Berates Unionists
Friday, 8 September 2000, 9:46 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
USP Pacific Journalism Online: http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/ USP Journalism on the Fiji crisis (UTS host): http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/archive/coup.html USP Pasifik Nius stories on Scoop (NZ): http://www.scoop.co.nz/international.htm Have your say: ... More >>
INDONESIA: Militia gang attacks Kupang journalists
Thursday, 7 September 2000, 1:39 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
(AJI/IFEX) - The following is a 5 September 2000 letter to the national police chief, General (Police) Roesdiharjo, by the Southeast Asian Press More >>
Chaudhry Says No Elected Government Safe
Wednesday, 6 September 2000, 3:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry says no elected government is safe in Fiji in a political climate that has already witnessed three coups in the last thirteen years. More >>
