COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit
Report by Professor Crispin Maslog in MANILA As 190 nations grapple with the world’s future at the global climate summit in Paris, forest fires in Indonesia have been continuing to rage since July...
View ArticleKP Lew: It’s easy to be cynical … harder to fight for your media dream
Pacific Media Centre By Kai Ping Lew When Alistar Kata first asked if I would take part in this mini doco, The PMC Project, I was really excited for the opportunity. The Pacific Media Centre has added...
View ArticleAustralia stands firm on hardline policies against asylum seekers
From ETAN/The Straits Times By Jonathan Pearlman in Perth Australia has adopted some of the world’s toughest policies against refugees in recent years and will not relent despite criticisms over...
View ArticleClimate model tool shows warmer South-East Asia future
From SciDev.Net By Dyna Rochmyaningsih in Jakarta Scientists in South-East Asia and the United Kingdom’s Met Office have teamed up to develop a model that predicts how the climate in the region will be...
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Controversial TPP pact signed amid huge Auckland protest
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history has been signed by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets to...
View ArticleBid to save 126 Indonesian workers facing death in Malaysia
Ministries are pooling their efforts to save 126 Indonesian migrant workers facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drug-related offences, say Indonesian officials. The government has used...
View ArticleAceh fishermen nominated for UN award for rescuing migrants
Aceh fishermen are nominated to receive the 2016 Nansen Refugee Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) for rescuing hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh in...
View ArticleABC Four Corners crew arrested over reporting Malaysian corruption allegations
An ABC Four Corners investigative programme crew has been detained by Malaysian police after trying to question Prime Minister Najib Razak over a corruption scandal. Reporter Linton Besser and camera...
View ArticleABC Four Corners crew avoid charges over Malaysian PM incident
The ABC Four Corners news team in Malaysia have been told they will not be charged over an incident with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak only hours after they were told to face court, reports ABC...
View ArticleMong Palatino: The ‘death of democracy’ in Southeast Asia
Democracy has died and been reborn several times in different countries in the region, writes Mong Palatino. On March 2, 1962, General Ne Win led a coup in Myanmar (then known as Burma) and established...
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NZ could play key role in ending child detention, say refugee advocates
The Invisible Picture Show, an animation made by End Child Detention on Vimeo. Basic rights for refugee children is an issue troubling some South-East Asian nations. In Indonesia, more than 800 asylum...
View ArticleMass staff walkout at Phnom Penh Post owner’s self-censorship order
By Thomas Brent, Tom O’Connell, Janelle Retka in Phnom Penh Cambodia’s last independent newspaper has had its editorial team gutted after its managing editor, web editor and two senior journalists...
View ArticleMalaysian opposition wins elections, seeks pardon for jailed leader
By Emma Richards of Asian Correspondent In a truly historic vote, Malaysia for the first time since independence has fallen to the opposition coalition. “The Palace has contacted us to tell us that we...
View Article‘New dawn’ for Malaysia, pledges freed Anwar Ibrahim after full pardon
Anwar Ibrahim’s royal pardon paves the way for a return to politics for the former opposition leader who was jailed three years ago for alleged sodomy. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk...
View ArticleJokowi, Mahathir discuss migrant worker protection, border deal
By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad have met for a bilateral talk, exploring issues ranging from education for Indonesian...
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Japanese development aid funding splits Pacific unity on key WHO post
The Western Pacific post for the World Health Organisation is a vitally important role for the region. However, reports Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Journalism, the earlier unity over a strong...
View ArticleJournalist ‘hauled in’ for police questioning at Malaysia land protest
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A journalist has been taken in for police questioning while documenting the land struggles of Temiar Orang Asli, an indigenous community in Kampung Sungai Papan, Malaysia,...
View ArticleNZ bars Australian investigative journalist working for Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch An award-winning journalist whose reporting on a murder and corruption investigation got her deported from Malaysia has been prevented from boarding a flight to New Zealand, even...
View ArticleRSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government to end the “absurd situation” in which Australian investigative journalist Mary Ann Jolley...
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Malaysia police summon Al Jazeera journalists for questioning
The controversial 101 East episode Locked Up in Malaysia’s Lockdown on 3 July 2020. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Malaysian police summoned six Al Jazeera media workers today for...
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