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Published By MIL OSI / April 20, 2018 / Agriculture, Analysis, Arts, Banking, BNZ Weekly Overview, Business, commerce, Currency Exchange Rates, Currency Market, Currency Markets, Dairy Prices, Economics, Editor's Picks, Exports, Farmers, Farming, Finance, Financial policy, Full Weekly Overview pdf, Investment, Lead, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, MIL Syndication, money, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific, Pacific Region, Press Release, Regular Publications, Residential Housing Market / Comments Off on Tony Alexander’s Weekly New Zealand Economic Overview 19 April 2018
Economic Analysis by Tony Alexander. This week I take a simple look at reasons why our economy’s growth rate and jobs growth have both been so strong the past four years, in spite of the big fall in dairy prices over 2013-14. Strong Growth For Four Years In the absence of any truly useful economic […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 20, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis Assessment, Arts, Critical Politics, Media, Media Intelligence, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, MIL Syndication, New Releases, New Zealand, News, News Media, NZ Politics, Pacific Region, Politics, Press Release / Comments Off on Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2018 – Today’s content
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 20 2018 – Today’s content Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. The Beehive and Parliament Buildings. Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 20, 2018 / Ambae, APR, Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Disasters, Environment, Eruption, Evacuation, Human Rights, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Press Release, relocation, Reports, Vanuatu, Volcano, Volcanoes / Comments Off on Vanuatu pressing ahead with Ambae volcano island evacuation plan
A file photo of the last Ambae evacuation in September 2017. Image: Vanuatu Daily Post By Len Garae in Port Vila Vanuatu is still pressing ahead with its plan to evacuate Ambae island for the second time in six months in the face of rumbling and ash-spewing from Mt Lombenden volcano. A government delegation comprising […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 19, 2018 / Activism, APR, Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Featured, Human Rights, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, justice, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Philippines, PMC Reportage, Politics, Press Release, Reports, Rodrigo Duterte / Comments Off on ‘Great relief’ for rights advocates after Philippines ‘releases’ Australian nun
Sister “Pat” Fox … “her duty to protect anyone who was oppressed or poor.” Image: Rappler By Jean Bell in Auckland Detained Australian missionary Sister Patricia “Pat” Fox’s “release” by the Philippines Bureau of Immigration has been greeted with relief by human rights advocates Peter Murphy, chair of the International Coalition for Human Rights in […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 19, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis Assessment, Arts, Critical Politics, Media, Media Intelligence, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, New Releases, New Zealand, News, News Media, NZ Politics, Pacific Region, Politics, Press Release / Comments Off on Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 19 2018 – Today’s content
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 19 2018 – Today’s content Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. The Beehive and Parliament Buildings. Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 19, 2018 / APR, Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Bearing Witness, Climate, Education, Environment, ePOP, Featured, Fiji, Human Rights, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, Multimedia, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Pacific youth, PMC Reportage, Press Release, Reports, Smartphones, Youth, Youth storytelling / Comments Off on USP students raise Pacific climate change awareness using cellphones
Bearing Witness talks to ePOP climate change video makers. Video: Pacific Media Centre By Hele Ikimotu with visuals by Blessen Tom in Suva Ten students from the University of the South Pacific have captured the effects of climate change on their smartphone devices. The task was organised through an eParticipatory Observers Project (ePOP) workshop last […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 18, 2018 / APR, Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Bearing Witness, Climate, Climate Action, Climate Change, Education, Environment, Featured, Fiji, Media, media education, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, Multimedia, New Releases, New Zealand, News, PACE-SD, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Press Release, Real climate action, Reports, Research, University media, University of the South Pacific, USP, Video / Comments Off on USP celebrates 50 years and leads research action on climate change
Bearing Witness crew Blessen Tom and Hele Ikimotu’s video story of USP’s ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations and climate change. Video: AUT Pacific Media Centre By Hele Ikimotu with visuals by Blessen Tom in Suva This year, the University of the South Pacific is celebrating 50 years since its opening in Fiji in 1968. The university’s […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 18, 2018 / APR, Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Bearing Witness, Climate, Environment, Fiji, Human Rights, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Press Release, Renewable energy, Reports, Solar energy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals, Technology, University of the South Pacific, USP / Comments Off on Solar panels the way to go for Pacific, says USP physics academic
The University of the South Pacific’s lower campus 45kw solar pv power system. Image: Hele Ikimotu/Bearing Witness By Hele Ikimotu in Suva Affordable energy enhances the livelihood of Pacific communities, says an associate professor in physics at the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific. Dr Atul Raturi presented a seminar as part of the Pacific […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 18, 2018 / Analysis, Arts, Culture, Death, Deaths, Demographics, Editor's Picks, Health, Health and Fitness, Health Status, Keith Rankin, Keith Rankin Chart Analysis, Lead, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, MIL Syndication, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Pacific Region, Press Release, Research / Comments Off on Keith Rankin’s Chart for this Month: Ages at Death, New Zealand 1957 and 2017
Chart for this Month: Ages at Death, New Zealand 1957 and 2017 Analysis by Keith Rankin. Older Population, Higher Life Expectancy. Chart by Keith Rankin. This month’s chart (a comparative histogram) shows the impact – of both an aging population and rising life expectancy – on ages at death. The percentages shown basically represent the […]
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Published By MIL OSI / April 17, 2018 / Arts, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Culture, Featured story, Front page, Literature, Marshall Islands, Media, MIL OSI, MIL OSI Arts, New Releases, New Zealand, News, Nuclear Issues, Pacific Media Centre, PMC Reportage, poetry, Press Release, Special Report / Comments Off on Pacific nuclear activist-poet tells stories through culture – and her latest poem
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Sylvia C. Frain reports from Hawai’i on the release of a poetry work focusing on the impact of nuclear activity in the Marshall Islands. Nuclear activist, writer and poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijner from the Marshall Islands has launched her new poetry work which has a focus on nuclear weapons. Her newest poem, “Anointed” can be seen […]
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