AAPMI is a group of Asia Pacific media experts, including former diplomats & executives, journalists & technologists with decades of experience in the region.
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Joined June 2018
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Hong Kong court sentences activist Joshua Wong to 10 years on national security charge reuters.com/world/hong-kong-…
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FEATURE : Missing Millions and Rusting Wrecks: The True Cost of the Natural Shipping grant in pictures.Latest by @cpiringi7.
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Government agencies are stepping up coordination to deliver urgent assistance to communities affected by Fiji’s worsening drought, with authorities warning that conditions could deteriorate further over the next three months.
Speaking to MaiTV, Minister Responsible for the National Disaster Management Office and Public Works Ro Filipe Tuisawau said the response was being coordinated through the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), bringing together agencies responsible for agriculture, utilities and infrastructure to monitor the situation and respond to communities in need.
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Australia hits a stumbling block in Fiji with domestic political pushback on Ocean of Peace treaty + Vuvale Union. Parliamentary committee recommends govt defer approval of both treaties and undertake "further negotiations" with Aus. But Fiji's Foreign Minister vows to push ahead
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CPJ calls for the immediate and unconditional release of International Press Freedom Awardee Sai Zaw Thaike and all imprisoned journalists in Myanmar, and for the withdrawal of charges brought against them in retaliation for their reporting. #FreeThePress
#Myanmar: Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy and former IPFA awardee, pays tribute to imprisoned photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike, who will be honored with CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award on Nov 19.
Watch Aung Zaw’s message of solidarity. ⤵️
#FreeSaiZawThaike @IrrawaddyNews
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Media Watch takes aim at the FM over Australia's silence on the Samoan PM's campaign against the Observer and the "fundamental" importance of a free press: "so fundamental, she’s clearly decided to give a free pass to the Samoan PM"
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Following a Samoa Observer report on Sunday titled “The PM’s ‘Heil Hitler’ moment, the Prime Minister’s apology admitting to the remarks the following day has rippled across the globe with the largest and most influential news publications and broadcasters carrying the story. samoaobserver.ws/category/sa…
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Veteran journalist Mary-Louise O’Callaghan – a long time monitor of Solomon Islands affairs – has some sharp words in The Interpreter about the Australian government’s plan to pour buckets of money into MP’s Constituency Development Funds.
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Albanese's proposal to water down Australian copyright to appease AI companies is a "terrible betrayal", writes Richard Flanagan in a blistering piece.
"The government’s secret proposals on AI copyright effectively amount to handing over our culture to a handful of anti-democratic oligarchs and raising the spectre of Australia becoming a vassal state."
"A government that doesn’t understand its nation’s culture is a government incapable of leading the nation."
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Anthropic & Open AI want Aust govt to weaken copyright law so they can shift model training to Aust. What they dont say is an Aust opt-in/out system would let them copy global material without paying, as long as it’s copied in Aust. My piece here: insidestory.org.au/will-aust…
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Cook Islands News editor Rashneel Kumar has launched the South Pacific’s first independent fact-checking network at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu, Fiji. cookislandsnews.com/internal…
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Congratulations to Emmanuel Nyipiengo Kouriane, the first Kanak to gain a PhD in Public Law at the University of New Caledonia, after completing his doctoral thesis on decolonisation and transitional justice in New Caledonia.
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Interesting. South Pacific Defence Ministers Meeting- with Australia, Chile, Fiji, France, NZ, PNG and Tonga- signals it will slow down push to expand Pacific Response Group's mandate- taking a detailed look at immunity issues + a "phased approach" re stabilisation missions
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BREAKING: Trump administration has been ordered to restore White House access to CNN, MS Now and Politico.
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Labor has effectively abolished the third-year backpacker visa: an 84% cut, down to just 5,000 spots via lottery. Combined with second-year cuts, total visas fall 44%. Stephen Howes says this could mean 18,300 fewer backpackers on farms.
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Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, the Tui Nayau in Fiji, has called on Parliament not to approve the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Union or the Ocean of Peace Alliance (Veitacini Treaty) without “a full, fearless, and independent account” of how the treaties impact the nation's sovereignty.
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Kiribati - the only nation in all global hemispheres and on the Dateline and the Equator - thinking of changing its name to Tungaru. facebook.com/groups/Pacificn…
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Priceless. From Albanese and Wale meeting in New York on UNGA sidelines. The last time they met, in Solomon Islands, Albanese (like everyone!) sat through a rather marathon Wale speech at Independence Day celebrations.
Wale: "I gave you a Fidel"
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For a long time, Sky News was easy to dismiss as a broom closet operation. The WIN deal has changed that. There is a growing recognition that News24’s free-to-air broadcasts in regional areas are shifting voters towards One Nation. trib.al/VyzVpEI
