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July 9, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour circulating on social media about new cases of covid-19 in Port Moresby is false, the PNG Post-Courier reports. He also cautioned the public from spreading misinformation and fake news which ... <a title="PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/png-covid-response-controller-warns-public-against-fake-news/" aria-label="Read more about PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand’s latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland supermarket last night. Hipkins said the 32-year-old man, who arrived from India on July 3, left his managed isolation last night to go to the Countdown supermarket on Victoria Street ... <a title="New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/new-nz-case-of-isolated-covid-patient-visiting-supermarket-to-be-charged/" aria-label="Read more about New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party’s board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the party after it was revealed he leaked private health information to New Zealand media. It was revealed yesterday that former National Party president Michelle Boag was responsible for leaking confidential ... <a title="‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/there-needs-to-be-consequences-says-muller-over-nz-mps-covid-leak/" aria-label="Read more about ‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia’s Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for them to stay in hotels with security guards. Some of the guards couldn’t keep their dicks in their pants. Some of the returned travellers broke the rules. It then ... <a title="Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/nasya-bahfen-some-broke-the-rules-and-the-covid-enemy-is-taking-over/" aria-label="Read more about Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation and court processes taken over the death of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy late last month, a men’s gender justice advocate says. Man Up group representative Ganjiki Wayne said Jenelyn’s death ... <a title="Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/call-for-png-police-and-courts-to-work-closely-with-media-on-violence-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is responsible for a massive privacy breach relating to New Zealand’s active covid cases, and is not ruling out pursuing criminal charges. An investigation has been ordered into the breach, with ... <a title="Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/criminal-charges-possible-if-leak-source-identified-in-nz-covid-privacy-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful “cry for justice” march in the nation’s capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Many wore black yesterday in rallies against gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea in a day chosen to remember the young mother Jenelyn Kennedy – and for ... <a title="Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/many-in-black-rally-for-jenelyn-and-against-png-gender-based-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By Zahra Karim Didarali in Jakarta The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to tell, forcing many of them to drop coverage of issues like the environment in order to focus on the public health crisis. But for Jakarta-based Kantor Berita Radio ... <a title="Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/indonesian-radio-gets-covid-creative-to-communicate-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Fiji’s health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East at the weekend. There has been community concern about their return from Sinai, particularly after it was revealed some of the locals who had been working with the troops have ... <a title="Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/fiji-government-tries-to-allay-covid-concerns-as-160-troops-return/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Developing countries of Asia and the Pacific are experiencing unbalanced tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grim milestones in infections and deaths have left countless devastated. Yet, we must look at the economic ... <a title="Submission – Sustainable tourism and fisheries key to growth in post-COVID Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/submission-sustainable-tourism-and-fisheries-key-to-growth-in-post-covid-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Submission – Sustainable tourism and fisheries key to growth in post-COVID Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that amounted to a “national disgrace.” Amid all ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/gordon-campbell-media-collusion-with-nationals-attack-lines-the-real-disgrace/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
By Liu Chen, RNZ News reporter The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders, according to new research. The New Zealand Asian Mental Health and Well-being report, commissioned by charity Asian Family Services, found high levels of anxiety and nervousness, as well as racism. The ... <a title="Covid survey shows high anxiety and depression among Asian Kiwis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/covid-survey-shows-high-anxiety-and-depression-among-asian-kiwis/" aria-label="Read more about Covid survey shows high anxiety and depression among Asian Kiwis">Read more</a>
