Results for Press Releases

Papua New Guinea's autonomous province of Bougainville has freed four Fiji mercenaries accused of training a private army for wanted money scam operator Noah Musingku.

Civil court is the fairest way to settle disputes over media coverage without putting press freedom in danger, an alliance of human rights activists says.

The concept of dual nationality means that a person is a citizen of two countries at the same time. Each country has its own citizenship laws based on its own policy. Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. For example, a child born in a foreign country to U.S. citizen parents may be both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the country of birth.

Leaders and representatives of journalists' associations and trade unions across the Asia-Pacific region will work together more closely within the new International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific, launched in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend.

The Public Forum organized by the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre and the Pacific Centre for Public Integrity at the Holiday Inn was cut short today by an anonymous threat.

The Hon Prime Minister, Dr. Feleti V. Sevele recently visited (20-23 January) a contingent of 55 Royal Tongan Marines from Tonga's Defense Services undergoing training in Hawaii prior to their deployment to Iraq. His visit was on the invitation of the Admiral Timothy J Keating, Commander of US Pacific Command (US PACOM).

The operations officer for the Fiji battalion in Sinai, Major Ilai Moceica, is likely to be sent on the next flight home after a local media report misquoted him.

Hegemony is the dominance of one group over other groups, with or without the threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. The cultural control that hegemony asserts affects commonplace patterns of thought: hegemony controls the way new ideas are rejected or become naturalized in a process that subtly alters notions of common sense in a given society. By Ivan Simic

Given the dramatic challenges presented by climate change, including the risk that some islands in the Pacific may become uninhabitable, the Asian Development Bank's Pacific Strategy will be further refined to provide more emphasis on environmental management to help the region better manage its vulnerable natural environment.