CoveragePost
November 7, 2024
RNZ Pacific The Tongan and Fijian prime ministers are among the first Pacific Island leaders to congratulate US President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, 78, returned to the White House on Wednesday by securing more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, according to Edison Research projections. Tonga’s Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni, who is ... <a title="Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/07/pacific-nation-leaders-look-forward-to-strengthened-us-relations-with-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 7, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today Indigenous peoples still suffer the impacts through intergenerational cancers. In 1975, France stopped atmospheric tests and moved to underground testing. Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross was eight years old when the French nuclear tests ... <a title="Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/07/maohi-nui-campaigner-tackles-french-nuclear-test-legacy-cancer-and-limited-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and limited compensation">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 6, 2024
By Losirene Lacanivalu of the Cook Islands News The leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group says that if Donald Trump wins the United States elections — and he seemed to be on target to succeed as results were rolling in tonight — he will push back on climate change negotiations made since he was last ... <a title="US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if Trump wins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/us-elections-cook-islands-group-warns-of-climate-crisis-pushback-if-trump-wins/" aria-label="Read more about US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if Trump wins">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 6, 2024
PMN Pacific Mornings With Election Day for one of the most consequential United States presidential races in recent history underway, Pasifika communities on both sides of the Pacific Ocean are considering how a new administration could impact US-Pacific relations. Roy Tongilava, a public policy professional and Pacific community advocate in the United States, hopes to ... <a title="US presidential election holds high stakes for Pacific relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/us-presidential-election-holds-high-stakes-for-pacific-relations/" aria-label="Read more about US presidential election holds high stakes for Pacific relations">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 6, 2024
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Kimberlyn King-Hind, from the CNMI Republican Party, won the race for the CNMI’s lone non-voting delegate in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday. The delegate position was one of 61 races up for grabs in the 2024 CNMI general elections. The former Commonwealth ... <a title="Republican Kimberlyn King-Hinds wins delegate race in CNMI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/republican-kimberlyn-king-hinds-wins-delegate-race-in-cnmi/" aria-label="Read more about Republican Kimberlyn King-Hinds wins delegate race in CNMI">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 6, 2024
Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has praised Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape for his “brave ambush” in questioning new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto over West Papua. Prabowo offered an “amnesty” for West Papuan pro-independence activists during Marape’s revent meeting with Prabowo on the fringes of the inauguration, the PNG leader ... <a title="Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/wenda-praises-pngs-marape-over-brave-ambush-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ on West Papua">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 6, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins She made it clear in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, again at her televised debate with Donald Trump a few weeks later, and in all her interviews since. Vice-President Kamala Harris, if or when elected the 47th United States president, will continue the centre-right policies ... <a title="Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in the US or abroad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/06/harris-will-not-be-a-president-for-marginalised-people-in-the-us-or-abroad/" aria-label="Read more about Harris will not be a president for marginalised people – in the US or abroad">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 5, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The editorial board of The New York Times has demolished Donald Trump in a single paragraph calling on readers to vote for Vice-President Kamala Harris in today’s US elections. The editorial, published on Saturday, was only the Times’ latest attack on the former president in the run-up to the election, but the ... <a title="Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New York Times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/05/donald-trump-unfit-to-lead-vote-for-harris-warns-new-york-times/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’ – vote for Harris, warns New York Times">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 5, 2024
By Catrin Gardiner, Queensland University of Technology In the middle of the Pacific, Fiji journalists are transforming their practice, as newsrooms around Suva are requiring journalists to become multimedia creators, shaping stories for the digital age. A wave of multimedia journalists is surfacing in Fijian journalism culture, fostered during university education, and transitioning seamlessly into ... <a title="Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/05/fijian-journalists-embrace-multimedia-landscape-for-the-digital-age/" aria-label="Read more about Fijian journalists embrace multimedia landscape for the digital age">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 5, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura Just one day after President Prabowo Subianto’s inauguration, a minister announced plans to resume the transmigration programme in eastern Indonesia, particularly in Papua, saying it was needed for enhancing unity and providing locals with welfare. Transmigration is the process of moving people from densely populated regions to less densely populated ... <a title="West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/05/west-papuan-outcry-over-prabowos-plan-to-revive-transmigration/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 4, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As the US election unfolds, American territories such as the Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, along with the broader Pacific region, will be watching the developments. As the question hangs in the balance of whether the White House remains blue with Kamala Harris or turns red under ... <a title="How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/04/how-the-us-election-may-affect-pacific-island-nations/" aria-label="Read more about How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 3, 2024
Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel’s deadly siege on northern Gaza has entered a 30th day. Early week, the World Health Organisation managed to deliver some medical supplies to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, but on Thursday, Israeli fighter jets bombed the hospital’s third floor, where the supplies were being stored. Al Jazeera reports Israeli forces are ... <a title="‘Genocide as colonial erasure – UN expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s ‘intent to destroy’ Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/03/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-un-expert-francesca-albanese-on-israels-intent-to-destroy-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Genocide as colonial erasure – UN expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s ‘intent to destroy’ Gaza">Read more</a>
