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January 25, 2020
By RNZ News The first Australian case of Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed, with a man being held under isolation in a Melbourne hospital. News of the case came after Chinese authorities said they were treating 1287 patients with the virus, while the death toll has risen to 41. The Melbourne patient is a Chinese ... <a title="First Australian coronavirus case confirmed – 41 now dead in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/25/first-australian-coronavirus-case-confirmed-41-now-dead-in-china/" aria-label="Read more about First Australian coronavirus case confirmed – 41 now dead in China">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2020
A Mongabay video message to supporters of the US journalist Philip Jacobson arrested in Indonesia. By Michael Andrew in Jakarta International journalists and agencies have condemned the arrest of American environmental journalist Philip Jacobson, who has been detained in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, for allegedly misusing his residency permit. The reporter and editor of Mongabay, a ... <a title="Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/24/global-media-decry-indonesias-arrest-of-environmental-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Global media decry Indonesia’s arrest of environmental journalist">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2020
By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past three years, has challenged President Rodrigo Duterte by taking the executive to the Supreme Court. The news website has called on the court to rule on whether President Duterte – or ... <a title="Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/23/rappler-challenges-presidents-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2020
By RNZ News Protesters at Ihumātao remain hopeful a resolution to the lengthy dispute will be announced before Waitangi Day. Kiingi Tūheitia arrived at Ihumātao yesterday for a ceremony lowering and returning his flag, which was raised last August as a symbol of peace and unity, and which he said at the time would only ... <a title="Lowering of Kīngitanga flag at Ihumātao ‘appropriate’, says SOUL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/23/lowering-of-kingitanga-flag-at-ihumatao-appropriate-says-soul/" aria-label="Read more about Lowering of Kīngitanga flag at Ihumātao ‘appropriate’, says SOUL">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the non-profit environmental science news outlet Mongabay, has been arrested for an alleged visa violation in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, after being put under city arrest for a month. Jacobson, 30, was first detained on 17 December 2019 after attending a hearing between the Central Kalimantan parliament ... <a title="Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/indonesia-arrests-mongabay-editor-one-month-after-first-detaining-him/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia ‘arrests’ Mongabay editor – one month after first detaining him">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
By Koro Vaka’uta of RNZ Pacific A school workbook containing “harmful” messages is being circulated in Fiji’s schools, says a local activist. Roshika Deo said her attention was drawn to the Year 8 Healthy Living Pupil’s Workbook when she was helping prepare her niece for the school year. Deo said she was shocked at the ... <a title="Fiji school workbook condemned for promoting ‘harmful’ gender roles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/fiji-school-workbook-condemned-for-promoting-harmful-gender-roles/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji school workbook condemned for promoting ‘harmful’ gender roles">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Arnold Belau, Ligia Giay, Febriana Firdaus and Belinda Lopez of Voice of Papua Everything about what happened in the Papuan provincial regency of Nduga just over a year ago is still a blur and closed off. It remains an elephant in the room, just like another mass killing case in West Papua ... <a title="West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/west-papua-sad-plight-of-the-nduga-internally-displaced-children/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
By Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald in Sydney In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson arrived at the entrance of Kew Asylum in Melbourne on “a hot grey morning with a lowering sky”. Hay Thomson’s two-part ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/hidden-women-of-history-australian-undercover-journalist-in-hospitals/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Australian undercover journalist in hospitals">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
By Llanesca T. Panti in Manila Textbooks should be changed to underscore the atrocities committed by the Philippines martial law regime of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, rather than make light of these violations and rehabilitate the Marcos’ reputation as proposed by former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., says Vice-President Leni Robredo.advertisement “Medyo nakakatawa kasi [na] ... <a title="Textbooks should highlight Marcos dictatorship atrocities, says Robredo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/textbooks-should-highlight-marcos-dictatorship-atrocities-says-robredo/" aria-label="Read more about Textbooks should highlight Marcos dictatorship atrocities, says Robredo">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2020
By Camille Abiel H. Torres, Charm Ryanne C. Magpali, Laurd Menhard Salen of The Varsitarian in Manila A New Zealand media academic and freedom advocate has warned that shutting down the Philippines’ largest and most popular media network would be a move toward dictatorship. Professor David Robie, director of the New Zealand-based Pacific Media Centre ... <a title="Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/18/media-academic-warns-shutting-key-tv-channel-would-be-step-to-dictatorship/" aria-label="Read more about Media academic warns shutting key TV channel would be step to ‘dictatorship’">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2020
The Rappler video feed on the Ampatuan convictions last month. For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan cultivated a culture of impunity. Now, however, reports David Robie, a courageous ... <a title="Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/16/ampatuan-massacre-justice-aftermath-with-more-fear-of-warlords-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2020
By David Robie in Manila Operating out of a modest three-roomed rooftop suite overlooking the local marketplace in the rice-producing Bicol township of Vinzons, a tiny Filipino community radio startup is quietly making its mark. Radyo Katabang 107.7FM only began broadcasting two years ago out of a studio lined with egg-container acoustic buffers in the ... <a title="Radio storytelling and community empowerment in Vinzons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/15/radio-storytelling-and-community-empowerment-in-vinzons/" aria-label="Read more about Radio storytelling and community empowerment in Vinzons">Read more</a>
