Timor-Leste makes top ten in World Press Freedom Index 2023
By David Robie
Timor-Leste has topped a stunning rise among Asia-Pacific countries to make it to into the “top ten” countries in this year’s World...
Deadly clash in West Papua during Indonesian rescue bid for NZ pilot
By Stefan Armbuster
Indonesia’s military confirms one soldier was killed and more are unaccounted for after clashes with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB-OPM)...
Africa’s highway takes shape – bureaucrats, mud and all
Flashback to a cover story in African Development magazine in April 1974. The Trans-African Highway (TAH) was expected to ease trade and other contacts...
Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...
RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an infamous protest
RNZ News
It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...
Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News
The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next...