カテゴリー: Pacific islands
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
Dan McGarry of the Daily Post told at Brisbane airport the Vanuatu immigration service had barred him from flying back to the island countryThe media director of a Vanuatu newspaper whose visa renewal was refused this month has been barred from flying …
At least six deaths have been linked to the outbreak, in a nation where vaccination rates are alarmingly lowSamoa has closed all schools and cracked down on public gatherings as it enters a state of emergency over the deadly measles outbreak spreading …
Vanuatu’s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editorOn Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and c…
Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah are among the group set to face a new trial beginning on MondayTwo members of the so-called Nauru 19 have sought asylum in Australia ahead of a retrial this week. Lawyers say the trial has been rigged against the…
Man who spent nine weeks locked up inside Australian-funded centre in Port Moresby describes hunger, isolation and lack of legal support Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in …
Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper’s critical coverage of government The Vanuatu government has refused to renew the work permit of its largest newspaper’s long-serving director, Dan McGarry, in what he said was a “straight up …
Six months after he was ousted as prime minister of PNG, Peter O’Neill sat down to breakfast to talk scandals and legacyFor a former prime minister with a warrant out for his arrest and allegations of official corruption hanging over his head, Peter O’…
Australian Channel Nine crew held at a hotel with officials stationed outside their rooms after being denied a filming permitA Channel Nine reporter and a crew from 60 Minutes have been detained in a hotel on the Pacific island archipelago of Kiribati …
All 111 members of parliament will get vehicles from the Apec fleet, but the fate of 40 Maseratis is not yet knownPapua New Guinea’s prime minister will receive one of the Bentley cars controversially purchased by the government at taxpayers’ expense f…
Agreement for Tulagi, a former Japanese naval base with a deep-water harbour, ‘unlawful’ A Chinese company’s attempt to lease an entire island in the Solomon Islands was unlawful and will not be allowed to go ahead, the Pacific archipelago’s government…