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, shortages of healthy...
Friday, May 10, 2013
By Lei Shi
The Samoan government is proposing a new law that may change the current definition of national identity as a “Samoan”.
Iuni Sapolu, a Samoan-born lawyer based in South...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Pacific Scoop commentary – By Airi Ingram and Jason MacLeod in Port Moresby: Melanesian support for a free West Papua has always been high. Travel throughout Papua New Guinea and you will often hear people say...
Monday, February 25, 2013
Pacific Scoop special report by Nic Maclellan (part 2): New Caledonia’s nickel industry is being transformed as new joint ventures and exports to Asia challenge France’s control of the strategic minerals...
Monday, February 25, 2013
Pacific Scoop special report by Nic Maclellan: New Caledonia’s next Congressional elections will not be held until May 2014, but it seems like the electoral campaign has already begun.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
West Papuan independence advocate Benny Wenda is stunned to find New Zealand “ignoring human rights issues on its doorstep” after Speaker David Carter denied him the opportunity to speak about his...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Michael Field reports: Less than a month after scrapping a draft constitution that would have sidelined Fiji’s military from politics, coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama says soldiers will have a place in governance.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Five police officers, one journalist were injured and 11 protesters reportedly detained yesterday when Indonesian security authorities crushed a rally staged by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) at Manokwari...
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Oxfam has proposed a strategic “big picture” approach to regional coordinated funding for Pacific climate change in a new report launched at the Pacific Islands Forum with the issue being a “core...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Henry Yamo RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill declared today there was no ban on foreign journalists entering the country and they were...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Centre): The Pacific Scoop team is covering the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands this week and it will be the third year in a row that the Pacific Media Centre has...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Graham Davis: An obscure woman from Lau is set for global recognition at the centerpiece of Air Pacific’s new design for the relaunch of the airline as Fiji Airways next year.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Graham Davis OPINION: The jailing of the former prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, for corruption is a personal tragedy for the man who once held the highest elected office in the land.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Selwyn Manning reports: Since the 2006 Fiji coup, Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama’s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of...
Friday, June 8, 2012
Up to eight people were fatally shot and at least 19 wounded when a group of Indonesian soldiers allegedly attacked a village in the Papuan province of West Papua.
