Abstract
Two transnational media conglomerates own or control all the major circulation newspapers in the South Pacific. Through their subsidiaries Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Ltd and French media magnate Robert Hersant's group in the French territories own five of the eight dailies in the region. The most recent daily, the National, began publishing in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in mid-November 1993. It is owned by a company associated with Malaysian senator Datuk Tiong Hiew King's family timber group, Rimbunan Hijau (RHG). Although the Tiong family is not in the big news media league of the Murdochs and Hersants, it has significant media interests, including the publishing of Malaysia's largest Chinese-language daily newspaper, Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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David Robie
An earlier version of this article was presented as a paper at the International Green-Left Conference, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1–4 April 1994. Some of the material in this article appears in David Robie's book Nius Biong Pasifik: Mass Media in the Pacific (Port Moresby, PNG: University of PNG Press, 1995). This book is available for A $19.95 from the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, UTS, Box 123, Sydney 2000, Australia. A number of the ministers mentioned in the article are no longer in office since on 30 August 1994 Sir Julius Chan replaced Paias Wingti as prime minister of Papua New Guinea.
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Rimbunan Hijau supplement, Post-Courier, 18 Aug. 1993, p. 31.
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