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Struggle Continues To Achieve Press Freedom

Tuesday, 9 May 2000, 9:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

JAKARTA: Despite the invasion of an East Java newspaper's offices by a mob of angry readers on Saturday, Indonesian journalists are optimistic about press freedom in their country. More >>

Portuguese Reporters Denied Entry To NTT

Tuesday, 9 May 2000, 9:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

JAKARTA (IO) -- Police in the Indonesian eastern province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) refused to let two Portuguese journalists enter the area because they did not hold a permit from the local immigration office. More >>

Stop The Sex Assault, Local Women Tell Men

Tuesday, 9 May 2000, 8:28 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Violence against women continues to be the most serious human rights violation in the Pacific on a daily basis, says Shamima Ali, coordinator of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre, the Daily Post reports. More >>

BOUGAINVILLE: Kauona condemns 15-year time frame

Monday, 8 May 2000, 8:42 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

"It is extremely frustrating to read of Sir Michael Somare's comment that a referendum for Independence on Bougainville will be held in 15 years time, said Sam Kauona, former general of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. More >>

I Can't Sack PM, Says Ratu Mara

Monday, 8 May 2000, 8:39 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: The Fiji Islands President will not dismiss Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's government despite mounting pressure from the revived Taukei Movement, the Daily Post reports. More >>

Minister Hits Back At Fiji Publishers

Monday, 8 May 2000, 8:38 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA (PMW): Fiji's Assistant Information Minister Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi has hit back at two prominent publishers in Fiji, rejecting their warnings against government imposing regulations on the press. More >>

Fiji Sun Condemned In Senate Over Photo

Monday, 8 May 2000, 8:37 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA (PMW): Fiji's newest daily newspaper, the Fiji Sun, has been condemned in the Senate for misrepresentation over a front-page photograph and caption depicting two senators, according to radio and press reports. More >>

Government Should Protect Press Freedom

Friday, 5 May 2000, 11:09 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

JAKARTA, May 4 (AFP) - Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has issued a strong endorsement of freedom of expression and said it was the duty of government to protect press freedom, Agence France Presse reports. More >>

Culture Obstacle For Journalists

Thursday, 4 May 2000, 10:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Pacific journalists have to be sensitive to cultural taboos in their work, said Reggie Dutt, editor of Wansolwara, the journalism student training paper at the University of the South Pacific, the Daily Post reports. More >>

East Timor Remembers Dead Journalists

Thursday, 4 May 2000, 9:35 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

DILI, East Timor (AP) - Journalists marked World Press Freedom Day, by holding vigils Wednesday at the sites where two reporters were murdered in the capital during the turmoil that followed East Timor 's independence vote. More >>

Plot Toppled My Government, Says Former PM Skate

Thursday, 4 May 2000, 8:44 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

PORT MORESBY: A group of Papua New Guinea Defence Force officers collaborated with senior officials of a ruling party in an operation code-named Operation Rescue PNG between May and August last year to overthrow a legitimate government, Parliament ... More >>

Singh Slams Sun, TV Practices

Wednesday, 3 May 2000, 2:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Fiji's Daily Post today marked World Press Freedom Day with a news report and an editorial attacking two rival news organisations over alleged breaches of media ethics and business laws. More >>

FIJI: $25m lawsuit against Fiji Sun, government

Tuesday, 2 May 2000, 1:33 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Timber Resource Management has sued the Fiji Islands government for $25 million for [allegedly] defamatory statements made against it in a full-page [advertisement] published in the Fiji Sun on April 4, the Fiji Times reports. More >>

Goroka University Land 'Not Bought By State'

Tuesday, 2 May 2000, 9:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

PORT MORESBY: The Okiyufa tribal group living on the outskirts of Goroka, which has been involved in a K2.7 million compensation dispute for the University of Goroka land, maintains that the land was never bought by the State, the National reports. More >>

French try to "adjust" gender balance bill

Tuesday, 2 May 2000, 9:02 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

PAPE'ETE, April 30 (OFO) - The French Senate in Paris is still trying to adapt a controversial gender balance bill to the French Pacific territories, which oppose the plan, saying their respective societies are "not ready", daily newspaper ... More >>

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