投稿者: Kate Lyons
Former PM Peter O’Neill says successor James Marape delivering only ‘attractive rhetoric’ after being banished from government benchesPapua New Guinea’s former prime minister Peter O’Neill has hit out at his successor, saying he was “taking PNG backwar…
Jakarta will be replaced by a yet-to-be-built city in Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo has announced the national capital will move from Jakarta, on the island of Java, to the province of East Kalimantan, on Borneo…
Short messages campaign for information on loved ones held in Xinjiang camps Uighurs are sending out messages on social media video app Tiktok showing family members who have gone missing, in their latest attempt to raise awareness about the estimated …
PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack’s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they ‘pick our fruit’The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia’s seasonal worker program, after comm…
Minister says archipelago in grave situation through no fault of its own as he unveils plan for net zero emissions and village relocationFiji will introduce one of the world’s most ambitious legislative programs to tackle the climate crisis, and has la…
Second car rams into crowd as chief executive Carrie Lam warns city is being pushed to ‘the verge of a very dangerous situation’Full report: Police fire teargas at protesters as two cars ram crowds 3.26pm BST [The protests have] seriously undermined Ho…
Shin Ok-ju, founder of the Grace Road Church, subjected followers to beatings and confiscated their passportsThe leader of a South Korean doomsday cult who held 400 people captive in Fiji and subjected them to violent beatings has been sentenced to six…
China’s claim it has freed 90% of people in Xinjiang detention camps has been met with anger and scepticismWhen news broke that senior officials in China were saying 90% of Uighurs detained in Xinjiang’s notorious detention centres had been released, N…
Aid organisations call out ‘dramatic underinvestment’ by Australia and other donors in tackling ‘endemic’ problemViolence against children in the Pacific region has reached “endemic” levels, with children subject to brutal physical discipline in the ho…
A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia’s federal Parliament House for the …
Annual event marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing and racism as women’s leaders call for pageant to be scrappedThe South Pacific nation of Tonga is in uproar after its annual beauty pageant was marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing…
Pregnant women among victims of killings in small village of Karida, in an area beset by internecine violenceAt least 15 women and children have been killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province, in one of the worst outbreaks of tribal viol…