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Fatty meat imports issue at Pacific forum boosts local food focus
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Holly Ryan BACKGROUNDER: While non-communicable diseases in the Pacific have been on the rise over the last few decades and are partially blamed on the dumping of cheap, fatty food in the region,...
SAMOA: Media frenzy over airline after new pay-for-weight policy
Friday, April 19, 2013
Daniel Drageset AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Samoa Air has recorded more than 90 million hits after being the first airline in the world to introduce a system where your air fare harmonises with...
TAHITI: Top FIFO film winner tells story of life in the shadow of ‘la bombe’
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thibault Marais PAPE'ETE (Pacific Scoop / Tahiti News / Pacific Media Watch): A film dedicated to the life of an engineer who worked for the French nuclear programme in Algeria and the...
Tough struggle for people of Tasimauri to win their deserved hospital
Friday, June 29, 2012
Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka: OPINION: AVUAVU, Guadalcanal: I opened my eyes slowly and looked around. The room was unfamiliar. My hand gently caressed what I was lying on. It was hard. There was no...
NZ: Filmmaker highlights government indifference to 'institutionalised abuse'
Friday, June 15, 2012
Nick Grant AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The director of a documentary about New Zealand’s psychiatric hospitals hopes his film will encourage the government to publically apologise to...
Journalism lecturer wins Dart trauma reporting fellowship at Columbia
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Journalism lecturer Lyn Barnes in AUT University's School of Communication Studies is one of 14 recipients of a Dart Fellowship to head to Columbia University in June.  Journalists from...
NZ: Mental health documentary showcases ‘disturbing history’
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Alex Perrottet AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch / Pacific Scoop): Premieres of a ground-breaking new film by New Zealander Jim Marbrook are currently being screened around the country, following its...
FIJI: Don't sensationalise the sensitive, says mental health officer to media
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Tevita Vuibau SUVA (Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Drawing a fine line between reporting facts and sensationalising stories of suicide can lower suicide rates. And it is this responsible...
PNG: New media book offers many cultural insights by young researchers
Friday, March 2, 2012
PORT MORESBY (Divine Word University / Pacific Media Watch): Divine Word University wishes to announce the publication of the book Communication, Culture and Society in Papua New Guinea, Yu tok...
Indonesia plans first green, ‘floating’ hospital with medical school
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Corazon Miller: Indonesia is about to build its first green, earthquake-proof hospital as part of the University of Indonesia’s plan to redevelop its School of Medicine.
FIJI: Media integral in publicising health issues, says SPC advocate
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Mary Rauto SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): The media is an integral part of health promotion, says Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) healthy Pacific lifestyles section head...
VANUATU: Shaping up - ni-Vanuatu women in action
Thursday, March 24, 2011
PORT VILA: The Vanuatu government has acted on threatening Pacific health trends with a new healthy lifestyle programme - Wokabaot Jalens.
France sends iodine tablets to Pacific in wake of Japanese nuclear crisis
Friday, March 18, 2011
Patrick Antoine Decloitre: The French government is sending a stock of iodine tablets to its overseas territories of the Pacific – as a “preventive measure” in response to the...
PNG: Community visual project boosts HIV research in Highlands
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Joys Eggins GOROKA: Komuniti Tok Piksa is developing new grounds for visual and community action around HIV/AIDS in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The project’s annual report,...
PNG: Story telling doco helps HIV cultural awareness campaign
Friday, February 18, 2011
Joys Eggins GOROKA: Awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea lack engagement with people and there is little regard for local cultural context. Komuniti Tok Piksa research assistant...

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