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September 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is being used as a pretext to “force the KNPB into a corner” and to criminalise them, reports Suara Papua. The September 2 attack on Kisor sub-district military post in Maybrat ... <a title="Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/papuas-knpb-accuses-jakarta-of-using-military-post-attack-to-criminalise-them/" aria-label="Read more about Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea’s covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days from September 9 as National Pandemic Response Deputy Controller Dr Daoni Esorom made a red alert call on Independence Day “super spreader” events. “Papua New Guineans are just not heeding ... <a title="Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/covid-19-red-alert-over-png-super-spreader-independence-events/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Questions have been raised about why the head of Fiji’s Bureau of Statistics was fired by the Bainimarama government this week. Kemueli Naiqama recently published this year’s household income and expenditure survey that showed three quarters of Fiji’s poorest people are indigenous Fijians, or i-Taukei. It is the first ... <a title="Fiji government sacking of chief statistician branded ‘shameful’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/fiji-government-sacking-of-chief-statistician-branded-shameful/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government sacking of chief statistician branded ‘shameful’">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday, September 17. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced this tonight, fulfilling what he had declared earlier last month that the borders on Viti Levu would be lifted once 60 percent of ... <a title="Fiji opens Viti Levu covid containment borders from 4am tomorrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/fiji-opens-viti-levu-covid-containment-borders-from-4am-tomorrow/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opens Viti Levu covid containment borders from 4am tomorrow">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
In this week's podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss: Geopolitics and how the global order is changing fast after the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. This includes; the USA, Australia and the UK announce a trilateral security defence alliance, plus the nuclearisation of Australia's submarine fleet. Also, China shifts strategy to mainland interests and hits the Silk Road running.
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September 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A West Papuan group seeking self-determination has greeted Papua New Guinea on its 46th anniversary of independence, predicting that one day the artificial colonial border separating the two would “fall like the Berlin Wall”. “Happy 46th independence anniversary to Papua New Guinea. We send a message of solidarity from your brothers ... <a title="Colonial border between PNG and West Papua ‘will fall like Berlin Wall’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/colonial-border-between-png-and-west-papua-will-fall-like-berlin-wall/" aria-label="Read more about Colonial border between PNG and West Papua ‘will fall like Berlin Wall’">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new measures to address the covid-19 pandemic in the country on the eve of the 46th Independence Day. Manning said these new measures, which came into effect yesterday, September 15, 2021, ... <a title="PNG controller issues new measures as covid-19 remains threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/png-controller-issues-new-measures-as-covid-19-remains-threat/" aria-label="Read more about PNG controller issues new measures as covid-19 remains threat">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks prompted the US to invade Afghanistan, the Taliban announced they have taken the whole country again last week. Journalists who remain there are at risk in spite of assurances media freedom will be respected. Will proper journalism be possible under the Taliban? We ... <a title="Afghanistan media: ‘You can’t put that genie back in the bottle’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/afghanistan-media-you-cant-put-that-genie-back-in-the-bottle/" aria-label="Read more about Afghanistan media: ‘You can’t put that genie back in the bottle’">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific Five months after Samoa’s April 9 general election the FAST party government finally began its first parliamentary session today. But it was without the members of the opposition HRPP party, who were shut out by the Speaker, Papalii Lio Masipau. Papali’i announced a ban yesterday, saying the HRPP was still failing to acknowledge ... <a title="Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/samoan-parliament-sits-but-opposition-mps-banned/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan parliament sits but opposition MPs banned">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A mural on the eastern side of the Wirobrajan intersection in Central Java city of Yogyakarta was covered over with black paint before President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s weekend visit. But officials have denied that it was censorship, reports CNN Indonesia. It was known that President Widodo would be passing through this ... <a title="Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/yogyakarta-officials-black-out-critical-street-art-before-jokowis-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Yogyakarta officials ‘black out’ critical street art before Jokowi’s visit">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health authorities reported 256 new cases yesterday in the covid delta variant outbreak. The curfew will run from 9pm to 5am Government spokesman Yannick Slamet and Health Director Dr Mabon de ... <a title="New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-caledonia-imposes-curfew-as-delta-outbreak-new-cases-hit-256/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Shailendra Singh in Suva Do the Fiji news media represent a wide range of political perspectives?Fiji’s national media, like media elsewhere, would cover a wider berth collectively, rather than as individual media organisations, because individual media have obvious leanings and priorities. But do the media, even as whole, provide a wide enough perspective?Not ... <a title="Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/slippery-slope-for-fijis-media-in-politically-charged-climate/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slope for Fiji’s media in politically charged climate">Read more</a>
