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September 29, 2021
By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Two deaths with two patients in critical condition is the status at one of Papua New Guinea’s leading hospitals as the covid-19 pandemic continues to create havoc along with an acute shortage of operational funds. Mount Hagen Provincial Hospital in Western Highlands Province — owed K1.6 ... <a title="Covid surge threatens PNG’s Mt Hagen hospital with ‘closure by Christmas’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/covid-surge-threatens-pngs-mt-hagen-hospital-with-closure-by-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Covid surge threatens PNG’s Mt Hagen hospital with ‘closure by Christmas’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new poll shows nearly two out of three New Zealanders want the border to remain closed until at least 90 percent of the country is vaccinated. The poll, in partnership with the country’s leading daily newspaper The New Zealand Herald, which is also running a 90% Project in support of ... <a title="Two thirds of New Zealanders favour border ‘safety first’, says Herald poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/two-thirds-of-new-zealanders-favour-border-safety-first-says-herald-poll/" aria-label="Read more about Two thirds of New Zealanders favour border ‘safety first’, says Herald poll">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley Fiji’s Assistant Minister for iTaukei Affairs Selai Adimaitoga said quite a lot on Friday in her end of week statement on the Media Industry Development Act 2010 in Parliament. She blamed reckless reporting by journalists as “one of the causes of violence and economic destruction over the ... <a title="The Fiji Times: The role of the media – holding power to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/the-fiji-times-the-role-of-the-media-holding-power-to-account/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: The role of the media – holding power to account">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua human rights activist and lawyer Veronica Koman has called for an independent inquiry into the attack on health workers in the Kiwirok district, Star Highlands, Papua, saying there are two versions of how the tragedy happened. A healthcare worker, 22-year-old Gabriella Maelani, was killed during the attack by the West ... <a title="Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/lawyer-koman-calls-for-inquiry-into-tragic-death-of-health-worker-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Koman calls for inquiry into tragic death of health worker in Papua">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
RNZ Pacific A group of doctors have hit the phones to support Pasifika families who have tested positive for covid-19 and been transferred into managed isolation. The chairperson of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs’ Pasifika chapter, Monica Liva, said about half the people infected with the virus in Auckland were Pasifika. She contacted ... <a title="Doctors rally on phone to help Pasifika families in isolation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/doctors-rally-on-phone-to-help-pasifika-families-in-isolation/" aria-label="Read more about Doctors rally on phone to help Pasifika families in isolation">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand has 16 community cases of covid-19 today, according to the Ministry of Health. In a statement, the ministry said 13 of today’s 16 cases had been epidemiologically linked to previous cases. There have been 10 unlinked cases in the past fortnight. There was also one historical community case not associated with ... <a title="NZ reports 16 new community covid cases after drop to single figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/27/nz-reports-16-new-community-covid-cases-after-drop-to-single-figures/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports 16 new community covid cases after drop to single figures">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has blamed the Indonesian military over the attack at a hospital in Kiwirok, near the Papua New Guinean border, in which a nurse was killed. Interim president Benny Wenda of the ULMWP has issued a statement in response to accusations by the Indonesian authorities ... <a title="Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/wenda-blames-nurses-death-on-indonesian-military-crackdown-for-papuan-mining-palm-oil/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda blames nurse’s death on Indonesian military crackdown for Papuan mining, palm oil">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is very disturbed by the “11 journalism rules” that the Taliban announced at a meeting with news media on September 19. The rules that Afghan journalists will now have to implement are vaguely worded, dangerous and liable to be used to persecute them, the Paris-based ... <a title="Taliban ‘journalism rules’ open way to censorship, persecution, warns RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/taliban-journalism-rules-open-way-to-censorship-persecution-warns-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about Taliban ‘journalism rules’ open way to censorship, persecution, warns RSF">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia recorded 16 covid-19 deaths yesterday — the highest single day total since the delta strain of the virus arrived in the territory less than three weeks ago. A spokesperson for the territorial government, Gilbert Tyuienon, said the archipelago “is going through a crisis never seen in its entire history”. Fifty-two people ... <a title="Covid deaths soar in New Caledonian crisis – 16 in one day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/covid-deaths-soar-in-new-caledonian-crisis-16-in-one-day/" aria-label="Read more about Covid deaths soar in New Caledonian crisis – 16 in one day">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has appealed to the 1.7 million people in the city to “roll up your sleeves” and get vaccinated immediately to help New Zealand cope better with the covid-19 pandemic. Writing in The New Zealand Herald today to back the newspaper’s 90% Project for maximum vaccination, Goff said ... <a title="Auckland mayor Goff makes ‘roll up your sleeves – take covid jab’ plea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/auckland-mayor-goff-makes-roll-up-your-sleeves-take-covid-jab-plea/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland mayor Goff makes ‘roll up your sleeves – take covid jab’ plea">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
RNZ News Papua New Guinea authorities are preparing for a four-week lockdown in at least three provinces at the end of the month. The move has been prompted by a spike in covid-19 infection rates in Eastern Highlands province as well as the two provinces which sit on the border with Indonesia, Western and West ... <a title="PNG prepares to impose covid lockdown in several provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/png-prepares-to-impose-covid-lockdown-in-several-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about PNG prepares to impose covid lockdown in several provinces">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
By Luke Nacei in Suva Fiji’s pposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad told Parliament yesterday that the Electoral Registration of Voters (Amendment) Bill was the product of dictatorship, pseudo-democracy and the “my way or the highway” approach to governance in a bid to ensure continuity of FijiFirst rule in the country. Professor Prasad ... <a title="‘My way or highway’ bill a product of Fiji dictatorship, says Prasad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/my-way-or-highway-bill-a-product-of-fiji-dictatorship-says-prasad/" aria-label="Read more about ‘My way or highway’ bill a product of Fiji dictatorship, says Prasad">Read more</a>
