Act now to avoid tragedy, academic warns politicians on climate
Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford told delegates at the opening of a university-hosted Pacific Climate Change Conference today that politicians need to act now to avoid tragedy....
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Catastrophic glacial meltdown big global risk, says researcher
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop The “window of possibility” for less than 2 degree C temperature rise will close in the next 10 years, says Victoria University’s Dr Tim Naish, a keynote speaker at today’s...
View ArticleFree lunch for some Fiji schools, cyclone classroom damage $42m
By Maggie Boyle in Suva Students attending schools managed by TISI Sangam, Fiji’s largest non-government organisation, in some cyclone-ravaged areas will be provided lunch for a month. General...
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Gays and lesbians feel heat of discrimination and prejudice in Indonesia
By Michael Neilson in Jakarta On the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, south of Jakarta, there is a group that gets together twice a month over a “pot-luck” dinner to discuss topics generally...
View Article‘Untouchable’ teen journalist challenges corruption at Indian rural schools
By Gregory Walsh Nineteen-year-old Mukesh was born into a marginalised community in an impoverished region of rural India. Now he documents corruption in his region’s school system in an effort to...
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Timorese scholarship students in NZ greet former president Ramos-Horta
By Hannah Short Former president of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr José Ramos-Horta praised the educational opportunity being provided for students from his country in New Zealand this...
View ArticleCulinary team lending skills to Fiji disaster fundraiser
By Melanie Cooper Auckland University of Technology culinary graduates will be working side-by-side with some of New Zealand’s top chefs this weekend to help raise money for Fiji in the wake of...
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New NZ think-tank launched to advance Pacific research
Research into the challenges and opportunities facing the Pacific Islands and their communities will flourish thanks to the uniting of the resources and expertise of three New Zealand universities. The...
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New Pacific research institute gives students, staff ‘cutting edge’ chance
By Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua The launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research (NZIPR) at the University of Auckland last night has been hailed as a milestone for...
View ArticlePCF offers Pacific exchange to keen media students
A video feedback message by TJ Aumua after her PCF internship in Fiji last year. By TJ Aumua New Zealand-based Pacific Cooperation Foundation has launched its annual appeal for student applications for...
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Indonesia’s climate crisis: Is the world still looking away?
By India Thorogood “Indonesia is burning – so why is the world looking away?” Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a massive climate crisis – now it looks like they could be...
View ArticleTwo NZ-based journalists join Fiji ‘bearing witness’ climate change project
April will mark the urgency of action needed to address the issue of climate change with a collaborative project between the Pacific Media Centre and the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Two...
View ArticleEducation joins forestry against climate change in Vanuatu
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Shefa Education Office will soon be rolling out its newly launched forestry programme to primary and secondary schools in Vanuatu. This programme aims to fight against...
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Amnesty International criticises denial of NZ visa to Iran filmmaker
The Dokhtar Forooshi song Sonita – “Brides for Sale”. Amnesty International has criticised the denial of a visa for Iranian film director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami who is due to visit New Zealand during...
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High school teacher brings alternative narratives on 1965 Indonesian purge
By Elly Burhaini Faizal in Jakarta A high school Indonesian history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966 communist purge into class as a way to reveal...
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Fiji tackles another ‘depression’ leading to young suicides
Fiji is still facing a major challenge to deal with suicide cases, especially of young children, reports Ami Dhabuwala of Asia-Pacific Journalism from Suva. Fiji is already struggling to cope with the...
View ArticleCrispin C. Maslog: Martial law amnesia – we didn’t teach history properly
I give my column space today to my favorite communication man, Professor Crispin C. Maslog. A former journalist with Agence France-Presse, Cris was director of the Silliman School of Journalism and...
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Images: Ethnic communities engage – let’s develop and grow
Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday – and the role of the New Zealand mainstream media was in the...
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Dame Susan Devoy: We have a choice on how our media reflects society
New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy gave this opening address at the Ethnic Communities Engagement Summit at Auckland University of Technology at the weekend. Today’s timely and...
View ArticleKarakia in NZ schools under threat from court action
Dr Paul Moon, professor of history at Auckland University of Technology’s Te Ara Poutama, says that a recent failed court action to ban Bible lessons from New Zealand schools will not be the last...
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