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March 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to gold and precious metal management. This initiative aims to strengthen Indonesia’s control over its gold reserves, improve financial stability, and reduce reliance on foreign institutions for gold ... <a title="Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/indonesias-bullion-banks-new-mining-policies-pose-threat-to-west-papuan-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march ... <a title="Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/trumps-riviera-plan-for-gaza-heralds-an-age-of-naked-fascism/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2023
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Fears are rife in Hawai’i of predatory land buying after the recent wildfires have left many locals homeless and in dire financial straits. The wildfires incinerated the town of Lāhainā, destroying 2200 homes and businesses and leaving hundreds unaccounted for. At least 114 people are confirmed dead. The disaster ... <a title="Anger in Hawai’i over threat of land grabs after wildfire disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/22/anger-in-hawaii-over-threat-of-land-grabs-after-wildfire-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Anger in Hawai’i over threat of land grabs after wildfire disaster">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2023
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, lead digital and social media journalist Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs has endorsed the reinstatement of a lease distribution policy with the iTaukei Land Trust Board. The decision was reached by interim council members who met on Bau Island yesterday shortly after the historic re-establishment ... <a title="Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/26/fijis-great-council-of-chiefs-reinstates-native-land-lease-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs reinstates native land lease policy">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The French Polynesian economy has been given a positive assessment in the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic by the body issuing the French Pacific franc. The Overseas Emission Institute said it expected French Polynesia should return to its pre-crisis level of GDP in the first quarter of 2023. It ... <a title="French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/09/french-polynesias-economy-on-good-path-says-paris-based-institute/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2022
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva A landmark case in Fiji today at the High Court in the capital Suva issued what is the country’s first environmental crime sentence. Controversial Chinese resort development company Freesoul Limited was fined FJ$1 million for breaching two counts of Fiji’s Environmental Management Act. The company is developing ... <a title="Fiji court fines Malolo developers in nation’s first ‘environmental crime’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/28/fiji-court-fines-malolo-developers-in-nations-first-environmental-crime/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji court fines Malolo developers in nation’s first ‘environmental crime’">Read more</a>
