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January 17, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in a new global book on intercultural communication. The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication published this week offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world. ... <a title="Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/17/pacific-media-perspectives-featured-by-authors-in-new-communication-book/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2024
By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalist in Hawai’i “One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific” was Samoa’s powerful statement during the parade of nations at the official opening of the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC). It was a sentiment echoed loudly and proudly by all other parading nations. Rapa Nui’s delegation ... <a title="FestPAC 2024: ‘One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/12/festpac-2024-one-body-one-people-one-ocean-one-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about FestPAC 2024: ‘One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific’">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French Pacific desk correspondentFrench President Emmanuel Macron has defended his Indo-Pacific vision during the traditional New Year’s good wishes ceremony to the French Armed Forces in Paris. Macron said tensions in the Indo-Pacific zone were a matter for concern because France was an integral part of the Indo-Pacific — both ... <a title="Macron defends Indo-Pacific stance – now ‘consolidated’ in Oceania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/28/macron-defends-indo-pacific-stance-now-consolidated-in-oceania/" aria-label="Read more about Macron defends Indo-Pacific stance – now ‘consolidated’ in Oceania">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The 22nd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders’ Summit was declared open at the National Convention Centre in Port Vila yesterday with host Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau hailing opportunities to “galvanise our efforts as a United Melanesia”. Prime Minister Kalsakau welcomed all the delegations and said how happy and privileged ... <a title="MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/msg-a-building-block-for-stronger-pacific-cooperation-says-kalsakau/" aria-label="Read more about MSG a ‘building block’ for stronger Pacific cooperation, says Kalsakau">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2023
By Rodney Duthie in Suva Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad has called on the Fiji Football Association to address the problem of the decline of the Fiji’s men’s global football ranking. He made the request to the national governing body while welcoming FIFA president Gianni Infantino to Fiji at the weekend. Infantino was in ... <a title="Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/07/fiji-deputy-pm-condemns-decline-in-bula-boys-football-ranking/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Greg Fry and Terence Wesley-Smith In his recently published article “Sea of many flags”, the head of the ANU National Security College Rory Medcalf makes the case for why Pacific Island states should regard the deep regional involvement of a Western coalition of powers, “quietly” led by Australia, as an effective and attractive ... <a title="Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing hegemony" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/sea-of-western-flags-in-oceania-its-really-about-a-continuing-hegemony/" aria-label="Read more about Sea of Western flags in Oceania? It’s really about a continuing hegemony">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala Edson Arantes do Nascimento passed away at the age of 82 after a brave battle with colon cancer in Brazil on 20 December 2022. Known as “O Rei”, “The Black Pearl”, and “Pelé”, he was an ambassador, businessperson, community worker to the world, cultural force, leader, soccer player, and politician. In ... <a title="Tony Fala: Pelé – a tribute from Aotearoa and Oceania" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/06/tony-fala-pele-a-tribute-from-aotearoa-and-oceania/" aria-label="Read more about Tony Fala: Pelé – a tribute from Aotearoa and Oceania">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new Aotearoa New Zealand book focusing on activists and their causes against militarism and for social struggles and climate justice across the Asia-Pacific is being launched in Wellington today. Peace Action: Struggles for a decolonised and demilitarised Oceania and East Asia, edited by Wellington-based activist Valerie Morse, is the first ... <a title="New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/12/new-book-has-focus-on-pacific-activists-against-militarism-for-climate-justice/" aria-label="Read more about New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate justice">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for Fiji and the “Sea of Islands”. As a son of the Pacific committed to Oceania, I am dismayed by recent events at USP. I write in support of all the ... <a title="How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/how-fiji-could-help-resolve-the-pal-ahluwalia-and-usp-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland More than 50 years of “torture” has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the complicity of Western governments, great fear has been put in the hearts and minds of people across the Pacific. These terrors have become cancerous tumours in the body of the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/yamin-kogoya-why-indonesian-trade-expo-deception-wont-win-pacific-hearts-and-minds/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds">Read more</a>
