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July 13, 2021
By Serafina Silaitoga in Labasa, Fiji Villagers and surrounding farmers in Labasa on Fiji’s Vanua Levu island turned up in big numbers for the covid-19 vaccination drive held at Nakorowiri village. Opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu gave his house for medical officials to use for the AstraZeneca vaccination drive. “The villagers came in numbers volunteering ... <a title="Fiji’s Nakorowiri villagers turn up in numbers to be vaccinated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/fijis-nakorowiri-villagers-turn-up-in-numbers-to-be-vaccinated/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Nakorowiri villagers turn up in numbers to be vaccinated">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s HRPP party — the country’s caretaker government — has now lost six seats since the April 9 general election, with eight byelections to come. The incoming FAST Party government holds 26 seats to the HRPP’s 19. FAST, which won the election but has been stymied in its efforts to assume power by ... <a title="Samoa’s HRPP loses more seats as political impasse drags on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/samoas-hrpp-loses-more-seats-as-political-impasse-drags-on/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s HRPP loses more seats as political impasse drags on">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk British and Indonesian human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo, founder of TAPOL watchdog and the movement’s driving force for many decades, has died peacefully aged 96. TAPOL said in an announcement that she had died on Saturday and would greatly missed by an extensive network of people whose lives had been “touched ... <a title="Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/papuan-and-human-rights-defender-carmel-budiardjo-dies-at-96/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96">Read more</a>
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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
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 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving waves of covid infections all around the world. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning Delta will rapidly become the dominant strain, let’s take a look at this ... <a title="Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/why-is-delta-such-a-worry-its-more-infectious-probably-causes-more-severe-disease-and-challenges-our-vaccines/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva Fiji’s opposition SODELPA leader Viliame Gavoka has condemned Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum for their “unimaginable recklessness” over the country’s covid pandemic crisis. The politicians should know “they are held responsible for every covid-19 death for not listening and not doing what is right,” Gavoka said. Fiji ... <a title="SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/sodelpa-leader-blasts-pm-attorney-general-over-fiji-covid-recklessness/" aria-label="Read more about SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
RNZ Pacific Public frustration over mixed messages from the government is growing in Fiji as covid-19 continues to spread rapidly. The latest daily update saw another 352 new cases reported yesterday. The Health Ministry also confirmed three more deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 33 – 31 from this latest outbreak that ... <a title="Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/fiji-mortuary-full-public-frustration-confusion-rife-over-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Guyon Espiner, investigative reporter, RNZ In Depth New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations. The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government ... <a title="NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/nz-labour-mp-breaks-ranks-to-accuse-china-of-organ-harvesting-slave-labour/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka A video by a Fiji doctor on adverse side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been misconstrued to support conspiracy theories and myths not supported by any scientific evidence, says Fiji College of General Practitioners president Dr Ram Raju. He said the college “does not condone any member spreading false ... <a title="Fiji GPs chief criticises ‘misconstrued’ video supporting conspiracy theories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/fiji-gps-chief-criticises-misconstrued-video-supporting-conspiracy-theories/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji GPs chief criticises ‘misconstrued’ video supporting conspiracy theories">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
RNZ Pacific More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape’ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific. The rally was attended by the pro-independence opposition, veterans groups and the Māohi Protestant Church — some carrying banners declaring a “crime against ... <a title="Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/tahiti-protest-rally-marks-frances-crime-against-humanity-first-atomic-test-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board How quickly things change. If, as the old cliche goes, a week is a long time in politics then a month is an eternity. As a story on the front page of the Weekend Observer revealed, the caretaker government is once again seeking to shape the outcome of ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The nation’s chief justice – a gift from above" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/samoa-observer-the-nations-chief-justice-a-gift-from-above/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The nation’s chief justice – a gift from above">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Fiji has reported 522 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours – a record number of daily cases. The Fiji government has also confirmed three more deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 30. The Health Ministry said that all three were unvaccinated ... <a title="Fiji reports record 522 new cases of covid-19 – three more deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/fiji-reports-record-522-new-cases-of-covid-19-three-more-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports record 522 new cases of covid-19 – three more deaths">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva The Fiji Civil Society Organisation Alliance for COVID-19 Humanitarian Response has repeated a call for the resignation of the country’s Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. The alliance claims that he is taking the country into chaos and says it is deeply concerned about lives being unnecessarily lost as a result of ... <a title="Sayed-Khaiyum leading Fiji into chaos, says women’s crisis centre leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/sayed-khaiyum-leading-fiji-into-chaos-says-womens-crisis-centre-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Sayed-Khaiyum leading Fiji into chaos, says women’s crisis centre leader">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Mark Ladao in Honolulu Dr Haunani-Kay Trask, a Hawai’ian leader and sovereignty activist with a distinguished career as an academic at the University of Hawai’i, died today at age 71. The sovereignty organisation Ka Lahui Hawai‘i on Facebook shared a post recalling Trask’s legacy, “We love you our great kumu, leader, and voice for ... <a title="Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/hawaiian-sovereignty-activist-and-uh-educator-haunani-kay-trask-dies-at-71/" aria-label="Read more about Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked for forgiveness from the people of Rwanda after admitting for the first time that France bore a “terrible responsibility” for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the 1994 genocide. ... <a title="Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/maohi-nuis-search-for-nuclear-justice-the-french-reset-button-still-to-be-reset/" aria-label="Read more about Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded another 404 new cases of covid-19 and five deaths in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday. Most of the new cases are from the western and central division where the capital Suva is located, according to the Health Ministry. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said two of the latest ... <a title="Fiji suffers 5 more deaths, 404 new cases in covid crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/fiji-suffers-5-more-deaths-404-new-cases-in-covid-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji suffers 5 more deaths, 404 new cases in covid crisis">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
The World Health Organisation says the delta variant of covid-19 has been identified in 85 countries and is spreading rapidly in unvaccinated populations around the world. Indonesia registered a record 21,807 cases on Wednesday. Video: Al Jazeera Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia’s most populated and popular islands are bracing for emergency lockdown measures from this ... <a title="Java, Bali brace for covid emergency lockdown as Indonesia’s cases surge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/java-bali-brace-for-covid-emergency-lockdown-as-indonesias-cases-surge/" aria-label="Read more about Java, Bali brace for covid emergency lockdown as Indonesia’s cases surge">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific A convicted Tongan government minister, ‘Akosita Lavulavu, and her husband ‘Etuate Lavulavu have each been jailed for six years. They were sentenced today in the Supreme Court after being found guilty on charges of obtaining money by false pretences. The couple owned and ran the educational institution ‘Unuaki ‘o Tonga Royal Institute. They ... <a title="Tongan MP and former MP couple sentenced to six years jail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/tongan-mp-and-former-mp-couple-sentenced-to-six-years-jail/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan MP and former MP couple sentenced to six years jail">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby As the delta variant of covid-19 spreads to more than 96 countries, Papua New Guinea has put in tighter measures that include all incoming passengers and crew to be vaccinated before boarding any international flight entering the country. Police Commissioner David Manning, who is also Controller of the PNG ... <a title="PNG in bid to stem rising covid-19 cases by tightening air travel rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/png-in-bid-to-stem-rising-covid-19-cases-by-tightening-air-travel-rules/" aria-label="Read more about PNG in bid to stem rising covid-19 cases by tightening air travel rules">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has accused the Fiji government of “losing the plot” and “meekly surrendering’ its citizens to suffer from the impact of the deadly covid-19 pandemic. His stinging criticism came after health authorities reported this afternoon a record 431 confirmed cases of covid-19 and two ... <a title="Fiji government accused of ‘losing plot’ as covid cases soar past 400 – 2 deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/fiji-government-accused-of-losing-plot-as-covid-cases-soar-past-400-2-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government accused of ‘losing plot’ as covid cases soar past 400 – 2 deaths">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Pacific regional civil society groups claim that DeepGreen, a venture capitalist company, has started “the clock ticking” with little regard for potential wide-ranging environmental damage from seabed mining in two years’ time. An aggressive push by any industry player to fast-track the conclusion of seven years of ongoing global negotiations on ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-naked-hijack-fast-track-seabed-mining-bid/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed 274 infections of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am today as they have warned people to take the pandemic more seriously. Health Secretary Dr James Fong told a media conference last night he was back in quarantine after coming into contact with a positive patient. ... <a title="Pleas for Fijians to take covid-19 more seriously with 274 more cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/pleas-for-fijians-to-take-covid-19-more-seriously-with-274-more-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Pleas for Fijians to take covid-19 more seriously with 274 more cases">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by the French Polynesian government, the nuclear veterans organisations wonder whether the victims are really represented at the talks. Like every year, they will instead mark tomorrow — July 2 — ... <a title="Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/macron-hosts-french-truth-and-justice-pacific-nuclear-test-legacy-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia’s latest covid-19 outbreaks. New Zealand health authorities were quick to react, isolating and testing contacts and suspending travel. Of the traveller’s 2,609 contacts, 93 percent have now returned ... <a title="NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/nz-has-managed-to-dodge-the-covid-19-bullet-again-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
RNZ Pacific Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday. The Health Ministry said 295 cases were from the Lami-Suva-Nausori containment zone, while 17 were from the western division. There are now 3306 active cases in isolation with 21 deaths reported since March ... <a title="Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/four-new-deaths-as-fiji-records-hundreds-more-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup. My fortune-telling has been assisted by some very interesting international statistics. The pattern in the bottom of the cup is telling me that the winner-takes-most paywall phenomenon that has characterised the US market may ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/gavin-ellis-dregs-in-the-news-media-paywall-teacup/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the covid-19 pandemic and this is concerning, a New Zealand epidemiologist has warned. PNG has recorded more than 170 deaths and more than 17,000 cases of the virus. In Fiji, 17 ... <a title="PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/png-fiji-situation-going-backwards-over-covid-warns-nz-health-expert/" aria-label="Read more about PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said 5 cases were prison officers from Suva who were undergoing 14 days quarantine at the FSC Compound in Rakiraki as part of essential movement ... <a title="Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/fiji-reports-241-new-covid-cases-and-one-death-pastors-warned/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors warned">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Otago University News Retired foundation director of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Kevin Clements has been awarded the International Studies Association’s (ISA) 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award in its peace studies section. The ISA said the award was given each year to a scholar who had a substantial record of research, practice ... <a title="Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/otago-conflict-studies-centre-founder-awarded-global-peace-prize/" aria-label="Read more about Otago conflict studies centre founder awarded global peace prize">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), New Caledonia (French), Tonga (English and Tongan), Solomon Islands (English and Solomon Islands Pijin), and Cook Islands (English). ... <a title="Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/facebook-boosts-pacific-wide-health-campaign-against-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Indonesia’s most troubled province of Papua is become embroiled in another mass demonstration with protesters barricading provincial government buildings and offices over a draconian and undemocratic appointment. The latest unrest is in response to last week’s controversial appointment of Papua’s Provincial Government Secretary, Dance Yulian Flassy, as Acting Governor of ... <a title="Papuans protest over draconian bid by Jakarta to replace Governor Enembe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/papuans-protest-over-draconian-bid-by-jakarta-to-replace-governor-enembe/" aria-label="Read more about Papuans protest over draconian bid by Jakarta to replace Governor Enembe">Read more</a>
