Friday, April 27, 2012
Wadan Narsey COMMENTARY: If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific community.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Jon Stephenson: INVESTIGATION: An Afghan-American company that failed to win a multibillion-dollar contract to develop one of Afghanistan's most lucrative mines alleges that the bidding process...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Yehiura Hriehwazi
PORT MORESBY (The National / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea has been identified as among 20 countries in the world that is “most vulnerable” to fall...
Thursday, December 1, 2011
OPINION: Indigenous Papuans describe their plight as slow genocide and Maire Leadbeater says it is time New Zealand stood up for their human rights. As December 1 approaches, there is always...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
WELLINGTON (Radio New Zealand / Pacific Media Watch): The massive Freeport mine in Indonesia’s Papua province has been brought to a standstill by a strike by 8000 of its workers; a US federal...
Saturday, November 12, 2011
PORT MORESBY (PNG Mine Watch / Pacific Media Watch): Strong economic growth and exploitative large-scale extractive industries do not lead to a better quality of life for people in Papua New...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
JAYAPURA (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): Freeport Indonesia says it considering a controlled shutdown of the entire mine in Papua following suspected sabotage and a strike in...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
By a special correspondent in Timika AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Dozens of journalists have demonstrated in Manokwari to protest in solidarity with a colleague who was...
Monday, October 17, 2011
JAYAPURA (Jakarta Post / Pacific Media Watch): Journalists Duma Tato Sanda from Cahaya Papua and Syahrul from Radar Timika were assaulted by workers of PT Freeport Indonesia while covering an...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Presenter Jemima Garrett
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia/Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's National Court has rejected an application for a permanent halt to the use of deep sea...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rowan Callick: ANALYSIS: Claims that Rio Tinto funded the civil war and fostered atrocities on Bougainville are being resurrected as a hurdle to the reopening there of Panguna copper mine, whose...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Jeffrey Elapa
PORT MORESBY (The National/Pacific Media Watch): Central Bougainville MP Jim Miringtoro has blamed Rio Tinto, the former operator of the now-closed Bougainville copper mine, for the...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Brian Thomson: It is 14 years since the war ended over what was once the world’s largest copper mine - on Bougainville island in Papua New Guinea - but SBS Dateline has uncovered claims that...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Brian Thomson SBS: It was a brutal Pacific civil war right costing thousands of lives. The conflict in Bougainville fought over the world's biggest copper mine ended 14 years ago.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
MELBOURNE: Allied Gold is denying reports that waste from its Simberi mine is killing marine life in Papua New Guinea.
Simon Jemison, head of Investor and Media Relations for Allied Gold says...
