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VANUATU: Snap election polling ends, early trends show ministers losing seats
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9551 Sunday, January 24, 2016Joshua Lafoai and Harold Obed of Loop Vanuatu PORT VILA (Loop Vanuatu/Pacific Media Watch): Voting in Vanuatu’s snap election has ended and last...
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VANUATU: Vanua'aku Pati political bloc confident of forming government
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9554 Monday, January 25, 2016 PORT VILA (Radio NZ International/Loop Vanuatu/Pacific Media Watch): The party that led Vanuatu at independence more than three decades ago is...
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VANUATU: Three Kalsakau brothers make political history - all elected
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9557 Monday, January 25, 2016Godwin Ligo PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): For the first time in Vanuatu’s political history since 1980, three Kalsakau...
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VANUATU: 'Clean up' snap election upholds rule of law
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9558 Tuesday, January 26, 2016Catherine Putz PORT VILA (The Diplomat/Pacific Media Watch): ANALYSIS: Of Vanuatu’s 270,000 people, an estimated 200,000 turned up to vote in...
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VANUATU: Caretaker PM slams Daily Post for outspoken airport editorial
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9564 Saturday, January 30, 2016 PORT VILA (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Vanuatu’s caretaker government has attacked the Vanuatu Daily Post for an outspoken...
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VANUATU: No debate about VBTC’s China TV plan and Radio Vanuatu coverage?
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9586 Monday, February 29, 2016 PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Digest/Pacific Media Watch): OPINION: Vanuatu Daily Digest has raised the issue of negligible public awareness of...
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Café Pacific: The mystery of the 1983 Vanuatu 'nuclear free' girl finally solved
Café PacificDavid RobieTuesday, March 1, 2016On Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day, David Robie tells of how the ID of a mystery five-year-old girl on the cover of one of his books was revealed...
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VANUATU: Brave woman tells of beating by bus drivers over social media criticism
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9596 Wednesday, March 16, 2016Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): A brave local woman has come forward...
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VANUATU: DPM speaks out against Port Vila violence: 'Enough is enough'
Pacific Media WatchTJ AumuaPMW ID: 9598 Friday, March 18, 2016TJ Aumua PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): The kidnapping and attack on a local Vanuatu female tourism manager, Florence...
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VANUATU: Daily Post editorial - Freedom of speech comes with responsibility
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9599 Friday, March 18, 2016Dan McGarry PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): Julian Ligo recently published an online piece purporting to tell the “real” story...
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VANUATU: Women unite to end violence, stage public rally
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9604 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/ Pacific Media Watch): Women in Vanuatu’s capital have banned together to call for an end to violence against...
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REGION: NZ needs to lead action on Pacific climate 'migration with dignity'
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9608 Thursday, March 31, 2016 AUCKLAND (The Daily Blog/Asia Pacific Report/ Pacific Media Watch): Radio Waatea and The Daily Blog featured climate change in the Pacific on...
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REGION: Engaging, dialogue and trust best way forward, says PINA chief
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9619 Sunday, April 10, 2016Bernadette Carreon Bernadette Carreon GUAM (Guam Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): Moses Stevens’ childhood dream was to become either a mechanic...
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GLOBAL: Nauru earns 'worst' black mark as world media freedom declines
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9638 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 NEW YORK (Freedom House/Pacific Media Watch): Global press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, reports the global...
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REGION: PINA president appeals to states to 'be professional' on media
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9644 Tuesday, May 3, 2016Pacific Islands News Association president Moses Stevens' 2016 Media Freedom Fay address. PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/ Pacific Media Watch): As we...
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REGION: World Press Freedom Day wrap-up in the Pacific
Pacific Media WatchTJ AumuaPMW ID: 9646 Tuesday, May 3, 2016TJ AumuaAUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Celebrated annually on May 3, this year's World Press Freedom Day celebrated the theme of "Access to...
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VANUATU: Panama Papers: The 'shell company corporate titan' with Vila link
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9663 Sunday, May 15, 2016 PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/ICIJ/Pacific Media Watch): In her passport, Nesita Manceau lists her occupation as “housewife.” But she does...
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AUDIO: Sunday profile: Pala Molisa - a radical accountant's eye on social...
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9671 Sunday, May 22, 2016 WELLINGTON (Radio NZ Sunday/Pacific Media Watch): Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, onetime...
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WEST PAPUA: Activists reject Jakarta denial over human rights claims
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9675 Thursday, May 26, 2016 PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/ Asia Pacific Report/ Pacific Media Watch): West Papuan leaders, through the Vanuatu Free West Papua Association in...
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VANUATU: VBTC apologises for 24-hour media blackout
Pacific Media WatchPMW ID: 9701 Thursday, June 16, 2016 PORT VILA (Vanautu Daily Post/ Pacific Media Watch): Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation (VBTC) was reconnected this week after a...
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