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August 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Jacinda Ardern is Prime Minister for a good reason. She is an excellent communicator. She got the message about mask-wearing almost bang-on in her speech yesterday. She was correctly reported as saying: Aucklanders should use a mask if they leave the house to access essential services. She may have given the ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/keith-rankin-on-messaging-and-masks-and-media/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
“Your post goes against our community standards on nudity or sexual activity” was the terse message that Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland-based Pacific Media Centre, RSF’s Oceania partner, received from Facebook whenever he tried to share an article about press freedom in Melanesia, especially the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, reports ... <a title="RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/rsf-calls-on-facebook-to-restore-censored-papua-press-freedom-article/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on Facebook to restore censored Papua press freedom article">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
By RNZ News QR app codes are now mandatory for businesses and services, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield have revealed, as they announced new covid-19 cases in New Zealand. Dr Bloomfield said there was just one new confirmed case in managed isolation recorded today, plus the four cases of ... <a title="One new confirmed isolation case, four probables linked to Pacific family" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/one-new-confirmed-isolation-case-four-probables-linked-to-pacific-family/" aria-label="Read more about One new confirmed isolation case, four probables linked to Pacific family">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman says the Indonesian government has asked her to return scholarship money amounting to 773 million rupiah (about US$70,000) which she received to undergo her master’s degree in Australia in 2016, reports CNN Indonesia. According to Vero – as she is known – this financial ... <a title="Jakarta asks Papuan rights lawyer Koman to return scholarship money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/jakarta-asks-papuan-rights-lawyer-koman-to-return-scholarship-money/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta asks Papuan rights lawyer Koman to return scholarship money">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
By The Bougainvillean Bougainville is heading to the polls today amid its first case of the covid-19 in thefourth general election of Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region since 2001. While this election is critically important in the region’s push for independence from mainland PNG, it comes at a time when there is much distress brought ... <a title="Bougainvilleans go to polls today in spite of first covid-19 case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/bougainvilleans-go-to-polls-today-in-spite-of-first-covid-19-case/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainvilleans go to polls today in spite of first covid-19 case">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
People calling New Zealand’s covid-19 healthline were facing long waits on hold today as the phone line struggles with high demand as the largest city of Auckland was poised for a three-day lockdown. This follows Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement last night of four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine in ... <a title="Hundreds call busy NZ healthline over new lockdown, emergency text resent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/hundreds-call-busy-nz-healthline-over-new-lockdown-emergency-text-resent/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds call busy NZ healthline over new lockdown, emergency text resent">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Mathematics, University of Canterbury Auckland, and possibly other parts of New Zealand, almost certainly have more cases of COVID-19 in the community than the four new cases confirmed yesterday. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern activated a resurgence plan late yesterday, placing all of Auckland ... <a title="New Zealand is on alert as COVID-19 returns. This is what we need to stamp it out again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/new-zealand-is-on-alert-as-covid-19-returns-this-is-what-we-need-to-stamp-it-out-again-144304/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand is on alert as COVID-19 returns. This is what we need to stamp it out again">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan. After 102 days without community transmission they are the first cases acquired from an unknown source, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced tonight. Ardern said New Zealand must take a “precautionary” approach as no ... <a title="Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/four-new-covid-cases-push-nz-into-three-day-resurgence-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has reported one new case of covid-19 in managed isolation today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the new case was a man in his 20s who arrived from Melbourne on July 30. He was in isolation at the Grand Millennium hotel and ... <a title="One new NZ case of covid in isolation as Bloomfield says he will try test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/one-new-nz-case-of-covid-in-isolation-as-bloomfield-says-he-will-try-test/" aria-label="Read more about One new NZ case of covid in isolation as Bloomfield says he will try test">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Guam’s health statistics continue to mount, covid-19 has hit the first family, reports the Pacific Island Times. Following Governor Lou Leon Guerrero’s disclosure last night that she had tested positive for covid-19, her son Joaquin Cook, president of the Bank of Guam, revealed he has also been hit by the ... <a title="Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/guams-first-family-hit-by-covid-governors-son-tells-his-story/" aria-label="Read more about Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea and the impact of other Pacific cases on two very important upcoming votes in Bougainville and New Caledonia. Speaking on the ... <a title="New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/new-covid-cases-in-png-bougainville-new-caledonia-and-tahiti-aired/" aria-label="Read more about New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired">Read more</a>
