Sunday, April 7, 2013
Made Arya Kencana in Denpasar
INDONESIAN authorities have been dealt another embarrassing blow when a second video shot by Dutch stunt journalist Kees Van der Spek hit YouTube this week.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
David Robie COMMENTARY: CAFÉ PACIFIC has returned from a Greek and Turkish odyssey
Saturday, December 1, 2012
David Robie: COMMENTARY: What an irony. The first serious test case since the Fiji regime’s draconian Media Industry Development Decree was imposed in 2010 has arisen out of a New Zealand newspaper report...
Monday, October 22, 2012
David Robie COMMENTARY: Militarism has always been part of Fijian society and the country needs to find a “corporate” bridge between its civil and military based sectors, believes the man who sparked off the...
Monday, September 17, 2012
David Robie: Rampant SELF-CENSORSHIP in action? It was astonishing to see a Media and Democracy symposium at the University of the South Pacific – which raised the tempo of “quality” journalism debate...
Sunday, August 19, 2012
John Minto: Open letter to SA President Jacob Zuma: Kia ora President Zuma, Many New Zealanders who demonstrated so strongly against the apartheid system in the 1970s and 1980s have watched with growing alarm at the...
Thursday, July 5, 2012
David Robie: FLASHBACK TO 1988: Excerpt from David Robie’s 1989 book Blood on their Banner about the cave massacre of 19 Kanak militants by French troops at dawn on 5 May 1988 on Ouvéa in the Loyalty...
Saturday, June 9, 2012
David Robie: The cacerolazo has returned as social protest to Argentina with a vengeance – three rallies in a week and Café Pacific was at one of them along with other media. This Latin-American brand of...
Monday, May 21, 2012
Why is the Communications Ministry in Tarawa dragging its feet over registration for the Kiribati Independent newspaper? Five months waiting for registration and lots of confused messages in the process. Perhaps the...
Saturday, May 12, 2012
David Robie: It is astounding how misinformed and shallow the thinking of many journalists around the Pacific has been when faced with a quickfire debate on such terms as “development journalism” and “...
Monday, April 2, 2012
David Robie: Whether it was the 21st birthday (as celebrated by the cake at a gala dinner) or 40th anniversary (as flagged by a former president in the opening speech notes), the Fiji milestones for the Pacific Islands...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Graham Davis: GRUBSHEET'S burgeoning number of opinion pieces on Fiji are largely designed to counter what we regard as the continuing failure of the mainstream regional media to come to grips with the reality of...
Friday, February 10, 2012
Graham Davis: Most countries have laws that prevent religious and racial vilification. Most responsible media outlets – including those on the internet – excise comments designed to inflame religious and...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
David Robie: Fiji needs all the support it can get after the devastating floods that have hit the western parts of the main island of Viti Levu.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Jason Brown: Kia orana M. President, Fourteen years ago today [15 December 2011], a journalist named JPK disappeared from the island of Tahiti.
