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July 30, 2020
By Matthew Scott The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images – the drowned Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, camera in hand and a huge smile on his face. Mugshots of two captured French DGSE secret agents – a fake honeymooning pair jailed for manslaughter, but later spirited off to Hao ... <a title="French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/french-nuclear-tests-i-bury-people-nearly-every-day-what-was-our-sin/" aria-label="Read more about French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2020
By Scott Waide of EMTV News Seventy-four health workers in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe province have been isolated after coming in contact with a 35-year-old National Department of Health officer who has tested positive with covid-19. The officer arrived in Lae on Sunday from the capital Port Moresby to attend a workshop and became ill ... <a title="74 health workers isolated in PNG’s Morobe after positive covid contact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/29/74-health-workers-isolated-in-pngs-morobe-after-positive-covid-contact/" aria-label="Read more about 74 health workers isolated in PNG’s Morobe after positive covid contact">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2020
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika’s John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru. By David Robie One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners, Oscar Manutahi Temaru, is expected to make a guest appearance tomorrow in a retrospective webinar about the impact of the Rainbow Warrior bombing 35 years on. The webinar, titled “The Rainbow ... <a title="35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/29/35-years-on-tahitis-temaru-likely-guest-in-rainbow-warrior-rewind/" aria-label="Read more about 35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s instruction for the military and the police to hunt down armed pro-independence rebels accused of being responsible for the 2018 Nduga massacre in Papua has led to a security crisis that has affected civilians in the region, claims the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua). The ... <a title="President’s order blamed for Nduga rights violations in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/presidents-order-blamed-for-nduga-rights-violations-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about President’s order blamed for Nduga rights violations in Papua">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Unite Union national director Mike Treen has welcomed the changes made by the New Zealand government in a $50 million reform package to combat migrant worker exploitation. “It will make it easiest for individual workers to access the support they need to make complaints, get support and change employers if necessary,” ... <a title="Unite union chief welcomes ‘fairness’ changes to fight migrant exploitation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/unite-union-chief-welcomes-fairness-changes-to-fight-migrant-exploitation/" aria-label="Read more about Unite union chief welcomes ‘fairness’ changes to fight migrant exploitation">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2020
By Pia Ranada in Manila Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, for the third time, used his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to call on Congress to reinstate the death penalty for violators of the country’s anti-drugs law. “I reiterate the swift passage of a law reviving the death penalty by lethal injection for crimes specified ... <a title="Duterte again calls for return of death penalty by lethal injection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/28/duterte-again-calls-for-return-of-death-penalty-by-lethal-injection/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte again calls for return of death penalty by lethal injection">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Host Zoe Larsen Cumming had much to discuss on a new documentary, the exquisitely made Loimata – The Sweetest Tears, which was launched last Saturday to a full house at the ASB Waterfront Theatre as part of the international Whanau Marama film festival. She asked Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Sri Krishnamurthi ... <a title="Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/loimata-the-sweetest-tears-is-a-spectacularly-exquisite-documentary/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata – The Sweetest Tears is a spectacularly exquisite documentary">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2020
By Lian Buan in Manila Manila Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa has denied the motion for partial reconsideration filed by Rappler journalists, and upheld the cyber libel conviction of Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. “In view of the foregoing, the Motion for Partial Reconsideration filed by Accused Reynaldo Santos ... <a title="Manila court upholds Ressa cyber libel conviction, cites new 15-year period" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/manila-court-upholds-ressa-cyber-libel-conviction-cites-new-15-year-period/" aria-label="Read more about Manila court upholds Ressa cyber libel conviction, cites new 15-year period">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2020
A SPREP webinar about the Blue Pacific vision for the peoples of the Oceania region. By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Our journey to a bluer Pacific as we navigate through covid-19, we’ve all experienced the impact of covid-19 one way or another, our region has not been spared the adverse effects of covid-19. ... <a title="Eco-tourism is the way of the post-covid future for the ‘blue’ Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/eco-tourism-is-the-way-of-the-post-covid-future-for-the-blue-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Eco-tourism is the way of the post-covid future for the ‘blue’ Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Twenty three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District – the highest reported so far in a day since the outbreak, reports NBC News. Deputy Pandemic Controller Dr Paison Dakulala announced the new cases in a statement last night following a meeting with Controller David ... <a title="PNG coronavirus cases jump by record 23 as total now tops 62" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/png-coronavirus-cases-jump-by-record-23-as-total-now-tops-62/" aria-label="Read more about PNG coronavirus cases jump by record 23 as total now tops 62">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2020
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby As Papua New Guinea’s capital continues to record an increase in covid-19 cases, with seven new positive cases recorded on Friday, another crisis is looming at the National Referral Hospital. Port Moresby General Hospital Emergency Ward (PomGen) is currently under immense stress as covid-19 tests take place there. ... <a title="Port Moresby emergency ward chaos as medics refuse untested patients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/26/port-moresby-emergency-ward-chaos-as-medics-refuse-untested-patients/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby emergency ward chaos as medics refuse untested patients">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2020
By Aika Rey in Manila Most Filipinos remain stressed due to the coronavirus pandemic, pollster Social Weather Stations found in a survey earlier this month. The SWS says 86 percent or close to 9 in 10 Filipinos said that the pandemic brought stress into their lives. The July 3-6 survey was a follow-up from the ... <a title="Most Filipinos remain stressed due to covid pandemic, says social survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/26/most-filipinos-remain-stressed-due-to-covid-pandemic-says-social-survey/" aria-label="Read more about Most Filipinos remain stressed due to covid pandemic, says social survey">Read more</a>
