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July 13, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva A 15-year-old girl has become Fiji’s youngest death due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, taking the total of deaths due to the virus to 58. Health Secretary Dr James Fong has confirmed this after an investigation by medical personnel classified the case as another covid-19 death. The girl from Colo-I-Suva ... <a title="15-year-old girl among latest Fiji covid deaths as virus cases soar over 11,000" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/15-year-old-girl-among-latest-fiji-covid-deaths-as-virus-cases-soar-over-11000/" aria-label="Read more about 15-year-old girl among latest Fiji covid deaths as virus cases soar over 11,000">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2021
Joint Op-Ed By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kanni Wignaraja, and Bambang Susantono If the world wants to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalization and regional cooperation. Ensuring the digital transformation reaches all in Asia Pacific ... <a title="OP-ED: Combating COVID-19 and Ensuring No One is Left Behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/12/op-ed-combating-covid-19-and-ensuring-no-one-is-left-behind/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Combating COVID-19 and Ensuring No One is Left Behind">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The latest excess mortality data shows all the countries of the British Isles, and the United States, have fewer excess deaths than New Zealand in the three months to the end of May 2021. England/Wales was looking particularly good in the three months to June. (Excess mortality data for the United ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United Kingdom and Herd Immunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-kingdom-and-herd-immunity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United Kingdom and Herd Immunity">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president. Louis Mapou was elected today in Noumea after months of negotiations between the two main pro-independence Kanak political groupings UNI and UC FLNKS. Australian journalist Nic Maclellan, a longtime writer on New Caledonian politics, says it is a significant victory for the Kanak people. ... <a title="New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/new-caledonia-elects-first-pro-independence-kanak-president/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
By Lian Buan in Manila Veteran journalist and former chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina has died after battling liver cancer, his family has confirmed. Espina was 59 years old, and died yesterday at their home in Bacolod. “Nonoy passed on peacefully, quietly surrounded by family ... <a title="Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/veteran-filipino-journalist-and-media-rights-advocate-nonoy-espina-59-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ News The agent for a ship carrying two covid-19-infected fishermen says New Zealand officials jumped the gun in announcing all its crew would be taken into managed isolation. The mariners were in a group of nine sailors who arrived in Auckland on Monday without having to quarantine and were immediately driven to New Plymouth ... <a title="Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/covid-19-cases-on-board-viking-bay-agent-says-nz-officials-jumped-gun/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
By Talebula Kate in Suva Fiji’s FEMAT field hospital at Laucala Bay in the capital Suva has begun its transition into a covid-19 dedicated hospital as the country’s health authorities reported 791 new cases and three deaths in the past day. Health Secretary Dr James Fong highlighted this in his covid-19 update last night. Dr ... <a title="Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fijis-field-hospital-begins-covid-crisis-transition-with-791-new-cases-3-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The FAST Party in Samoa has filed an application with the Supreme Court to have it recognise an impromptu swearing-in ceremony of elected members of the new political party. At the beginning of last week the court ruled the ceremony illegal as the Head of State was not present. But it said Parliament ... <a title="FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fast-to-ask-samoa-judges-to-recognise-impromptu-swearing-in/" aria-label="Read more about FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Fiji government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand’s lockdown example, an opposition leader says. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told media her advice was that the lockdown strategy had saved lives. Fiji is in the grip of ... <a title="Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fiji-government-useless-warns-prasad-ardern-touts-lockdown-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva Fiji’s fight against the covid-19 pandemic seems to have no light at the end of the tunnel after the Pacific nation has recorded 636 cases and six deaths in the past day alone. Yesterday’s number makes 5776 people battling the virus in total while the Health Ministry expects more cases ... <a title="Almost 6000 people battle covid-19 in Fiji – fears of new pandemic spike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/almost-6000-people-battle-covid-19-in-fiji-fears-of-new-pandemic-spike/" aria-label="Read more about Almost 6000 people battle covid-19 in Fiji – fears of new pandemic spike">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published a gallery of grim portraits — those of 37 heads of state or government who crack down massively on press freedom, reports RSF. Some of these “predators of press freedom” have been operating for more than two decades while others have just joined the blacklist, which for the first ... <a title="RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/rsfs-2021-press-freedom-predators-gallery-includes-old-tyrants-2-women/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Chile is our neighbour over the ditch; the ‘big ditch’, that is, the Pacific Ocean. And it’s a country with much in common with Aotearoa New Zealand. Until Covid19, Latam flew daily flights between Auckland and Santiago. Chile is regarded as the richest country in Latin America, and it certainly keeps ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Chile – Revolution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-chile-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Chile – Revolution?">Read more</a>
