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USP graduates hit out at magazine editorial
Monday, 3 April 2000, 9:48 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Journalism graduates and media personalities have hit out at a regional news magazine, rejecting an editorial claiming the graduates are "academic anaemics". More >>
Journalist Killed In East Timor Honoured
Monday, 3 April 2000, 9:40 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
MELBOURNE, March 31 AAP - Dutch reporter Sander Thoenes, who was killed in East Timor last year, was honoured in the Melbourne Press Club's annual journalism awards tonight. More >>
Fiji Government Seizes Historic Hotel
Monday, 3 April 2000, 9:38 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews) --- The Fiji Government has seized the ruined Grand Pacific Hotel on Suva's prime waterfront from the Nauru Government, reports Pacnews. More >>
French Polynesia Joins Pacific Telecom Association
Monday, 3 April 2000, 9:37 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PAPE'ETE, March 31 (OFO) - French Polynesia's telecom office (OPT) on Thursday joined the Pacific Islands Telecommunication Association (PITA) More >>
FIJI: It's All True, Says Rabuka
Thursday, 30 March 2000, 10:25 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka maintained that the new and controversial insights in his biography, Rabuka of Fiji, were all true, the Fiji Sun reports. More >>
FIJI: Judge to rule on Fiji Times man
Thursday, 30 March 2000, 10:21 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A judicial review of an Immigration Department decision not to renew Fiji Times editor-in-chief Russell Hunter's work permit will end soon, the Fiji Times reports. More >>
Fiji PM defends Vayeshnoi on radio decision
Monday, 20 March 2000, 11:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji Islands Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry said media ethics had been breached in the presentation of a radio programme, the Sunday Times reports. More >>
Radio Fiji admits talk show may be 'offensive'
Monday, 20 March 2000, 11:49 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd was aware that some comments made on one of its Hindustani programmes may have been offensive, reports Fiji's Daily Post. More >>
EAST TIMOR: Sander Thoenes Online Memorial website
Monday, 20 March 2000, 11:47 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
A Sander Thoenes Online Memorial has been created to honor the Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes, who was killed while reporting in East Timor. It includes photos, rembrances and links to many of his articles on East Timor, Indonesia and elsewhere. More >>
Mara Tries To Stop Rabuka Book
Friday, 17 March 2000, 1:17 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A legal battle is looming between the Fiji Islands President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, and the former prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, in the wake of a media controversy over the coup leader's book, the Fiji Times reports. More >>
Goff Voices Desire To End B'ville Operation
Thursday, 16 March 2000, 10:03 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY: New Zealand has joined Australia in signalling a desire to end the peace-monitoring operation on Bougainville, as efforts to negotiate a lasting peace drag on, the National reports. More >>
Rabuka Stands By Book Claim
Thursday, 16 March 2000, 10:00 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews) --- Former Fiji Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka says he stands by claims made in a book launched in Australia today that the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was part of the plot for overthrow the coalition government, led by Doctor Timoci ... More >>
Response To Islands Business Editorial
Thursday, 16 March 2000, 9:57 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
The Suva-based Islands Business news magazine has published in its latest edition an unsigned and ill-informed editorial attacking the journalism programme of the University of the South Pacific. More >>
ABC/Radio Australia Journalists On 24-Hour Strike
Wednesday, 15 March 2000, 1:49 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
MELBOURNE (Pacnews) - More than 600 journalists of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which includes Radio Australia, early this morning walked off their jobs over a dispute on wages and conditions, Pacnews reports. More >>
New Hindi News Magazine Launched In Fiji
Friday, 10 March 2000, 10:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
A new publication, Prabhaat, has been launched as the first Hindi news and business magazine in the South Pacific. More >>
1 in 5 women victim of violence in New Caledonia
Friday, 10 March 2000, 10:21 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
NOUMEA, March 8 (OFO) - One in five women in New Caledonia were victims of violence, regardless of their social or ethnic group, daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes reports on Wednesday. More >>
Women Make The News In Fiji
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 10:22 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The women of Fiji's Daily Post newspaper prepared last night to run the paper today. it is part of an effort by this newspaper to join UNESCO in promoting International Women's Day today. More >>
E Timor News Hot Off The Photocopier
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 10:11 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
East Timor's first local newspaper in six months hit the streets today, just hours before the visit of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. More >>
UPNG Punishes 12 Over Class Boycott
Tuesday, 7 March 2000, 10:19 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY: Twelve students have been found guilty and penalised for violating the laws of the University of Papua New Guinea during the boycott of classes against fee increases last year, the National reports. More >>
Fiji Women's Crisis Centre Goes Online
Tuesday, 7 March 2000, 9:58 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews) -- The Fiji Women Crisis Centre (FWCC) has launched itself into cyberspace, claiming it is the first such initiative for women in the Pacific, reports Pacnews. More >>
