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March 11, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute One year ago today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic, the first caused by a coronavirus. As we enter year two of the pandemic, let’s remind ourselves of some sobering statistics. So far, there have been more than 117.4 million confirmed cases of covid-19 around the ... <a title="After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/after-a-year-of-pain-heres-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-could-play-out-in-2021-and-beyond/" aria-label="Read more about After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Asia Pacific Report news desk East Sepik, preparing for the state funeral of Papua New Guinea’s Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, could expect a surge in covid-19 cases as thousands flock into the province in coming days, an official says. East Sepik Health Authority chief executive officer Mark Mauludu said this was most likely to ... <a title="PNG health official fears covid spike for Somare state funeral" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/png-health-official-fears-covid-spike-for-somare-state-funeral/" aria-label="Read more about PNG health official fears covid spike for Somare state funeral">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
EDITORIAL: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report, the Auckland-based independent news and analysis website, has been increasingly targeted by Indonesian trolls over the past three months, involving a spate of “letters to the editor” and social media attacks. One of the most frequent letter writers, an “Abel Lekahena”, who claims ... <a title="Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/dear-editor-we-have-you-in-our-sights-for-reporting-the-truth-on-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Dear editor, we have you in our sights for reporting ‘the truth’ on Papua">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for Fiji and the “Sea of Islands”. As a son of the Pacific committed to Oceania, I am dismayed by recent events at USP. I write in support of all the ... <a title="How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/how-fiji-could-help-resolve-the-pal-ahluwalia-and-usp-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
By Lulu Mark and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A medical academic has warned the Papua New Guinea government to immediately bring in more than 680,000 doses of covid-19 vaccines because urban health services will collapse if the spike in cases continues. Professor Glen Mola, who correctly predicted last July that the country should brace ... <a title="PNG warned 680,000 covid vaccine doses needed to ‘save health system’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/png-warned-680000-covid-vaccine-doses-needed-to-save-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about PNG warned 680,000 covid vaccine doses needed to ‘save health system’">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2021
Women journalists, feminists, activists, and human rights defenders around the world are facing virtual harassment. In this series, global civil society alliance CIVICUS highlights the gendered nature of virtual harassment through the stories of women working to defend our democratic freedoms. Today’s testimony on International Women’s Day is published here through a partnership between CIVICUS ... <a title="For this Filipina journalist, every day is a battle with fear – and defying silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/09/for-this-filipina-journalist-every-day-is-a-battle-with-fear-and-defying-silence/" aria-label="Read more about For this Filipina journalist, every day is a battle with fear – and defying silence">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton in Christchurch Owen Wilkes, an internationally renowned peace researcher and Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) founder, died in 2005, aged 65 (see my obituary in Watchdog 109, August 2005). And yet, 16 years later, I’m still learning more about him and gaining insights into his life and character. In ... <a title="Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and ‘bird watcher’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/murray-horton-reflections-on-owen-wilkes-iconic-peace-researcher-adventurer-and-bird-watcher/" aria-label="Read more about Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and ‘bird watcher’">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Fiji, Jonathan Curr, has taken to social media to counter claims that Wellington drafted a bill to give greatly increased powers to Fiji’s often corrupt police force. The Police Bill, tabled in Parliament last week, has been labelled draconian by critics while social ... <a title="Diplomat says NZ didn’t draft draconian Fiji police bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/diplomat-says-nz-didnt-draft-draconian-fiji-police-bill/" aria-label="Read more about Diplomat says NZ didn’t draft draconian Fiji police bill">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
By Talebula Kate in Suva While International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, Fiji must not lose sight of the struggles ahead, says Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali. She stressed this in a statement as Fiji marked International Women’s Day today, March 8, saying that while the country’s ... <a title="Fiji must commit political will over crimes against women, girls, says Ali" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/fiji-must-commit-political-will-over-crimes-against-women-girls-says-ali/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji must commit political will over crimes against women, girls, says Ali">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown after detecting nine cases, reports Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes. The outbreak on the French archipelago was detected after a school headteacher fell ill on the Wallis and Futuna islands leading authorities ... <a title="Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/covid-outbreak-forces-new-caledonia-into-snap-two-week-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
OPEN LETTER: By Gary Juffa in Port Moresby Dear all, I had covid-19. I am now covid-free for 13 days now. Not sure where I contracted it, but I gave all details for contact tracing to the papua New Guinea’s National Department of Health (NDOH) who are doing the best they can despite circumstances. I ... <a title="Gary Juffa: People, covid is real … and dangerous. I know, I’m recovering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/gary-juffa-people-covid-is-real-and-dangerous-i-know-im-recovering/" aria-label="Read more about Gary Juffa: People, covid is real … and dangerous. I know, I’m recovering">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand (and maybe some other countries), according to reports. Air New Zealand will begin trialling digital vaccine passports (or “immunity passports”) on routes ... <a title="How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/how-would-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-work-and-whats-stopping-people-from-faking-them/" aria-label="Read more about How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?">Read more</a>
