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August 9, 2023
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has called again for the immediate release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who has now been held hostage by pro-independence fighters in West Papua for six months. Speaking in Auckland, Hipkins said Mehrtens — a pilot for the Indonesian airline Susi Air which provide air links to remote ... <a title="Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/hipkins-urges-release-of-nz-hostage-six-months-after-papua-kidnapping/" aria-label="Read more about Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a “United Indigenous Nations” for global justice and an end to Indonesia’s ‘malignant’ colonisation of West Papua. Today — August 9 — is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as declared at the inaugural UN Working ... <a title="OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/opm-leader-calls-for-world-indigenous-un-end-to-papuan-colonisation/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a raid in Western Highlands province last week. The arrests identified a further seven men who were alleged to be part of a blackmarket network who move the illegal items from ... <a title="PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/png-seize-big-firearms-stockpile-arrest-10-in-highlands-blackmarket-raid/" aria-label="Read more about PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
By Joy Olali and Max Oraka Papua New Guinea’s literacy rate stands at 63.4 percent — the lowest in the Pacific — with the government planning for it to reach 70 percent by 2027, an official says. Career Trackers chief executive Ellenor Lutikoe told the National Content Conference in Port Moresby that according to the ... <a title="PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to 70%" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/pngs-literacy-rate-lowest-in-pacific-but-government-plans-boost-to-70/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to 70%">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
By David Robie New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has died. He was just two weeks shy of his 60th birthday. Fiji-born on 15 August 1963, just after his elder twin brother Murali, Sri grew up in the port city of ... <a title="Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/moce-sri-krishnamurthi-sports-journalist-democracy-activist-storyteller-and-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2023
By Rodney Duthie in Suva Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad has called on the Fiji Football Association to address the problem of the decline of the Fiji’s men’s global football ranking. He made the request to the national governing body while welcoming FIFA president Gianni Infantino to Fiji at the weekend. Infantino was in ... <a title="Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/07/fiji-deputy-pm-condemns-decline-in-bula-boys-football-ranking/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Deputy PM condemns decline in ‘Bula Boys’ football ranking">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2023
By David Robie Two researchers examining responses to conspiratorial pandemic narratives have warned Aotearoa New Zealand not to be complacent over the risk of fringe views over climate crisis becoming populist. Byron C. Clark, a video essayist and author of the recent book Fear: New Zealand’s Hostile Underworld of Extremists, and Emmanuel Stokes, a postgraduate ... <a title="Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election nears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/06/researchers-warn-over-climate-crisis-fringe-views-danger-as-nz-election-nears/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election nears">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021 by Indonesian security forces on a remote West Papuan village close to the Papua New Guinea border as part of an ongoing crackdown against growing calls for independence. The ... <a title="New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/new-documentary-human-rights-report-allege-indonesian-atrocities-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific anti-nuclear advocacy groups and campaigners have condemned Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s backing of Japan’s plans to release over one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. On Thursday, Rabuka announced he was “satisfied” with Japan’s efforts to ... <a title="Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/anti-nuclear-group-condemns-fiji-pm-rabukas-fukushima-wastewater-stance/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2023
RNZ News The integration of RNZ’s digital team with the wider news team was meant to take place during the merger with TVNZ that never eventuated, the organisation’s board says. It comes after an investigation into the inappropriate edits being written into news stories blamed differences between news teams, a lack of supervision and inconsistent ... <a title="RNZ review: Changes to be made as ‘promptly as possible’, says chair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/04/rnz-review-changes-to-be-made-as-promptly-as-possible-says-chair/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ review: Changes to be made as ‘promptly as possible’, says chair">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Police in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District are investigating the shooting yesterday of a woman reporter working with the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Central during an alleged confrontation between police and settlers at 8-Mile in Port Moresby. In the midst of the firing, allegedly aimed at each other, a stray bullet hit ... <a title="PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/png-woman-journalist-hit-by-stray-bullet-during-moitaka-shootout/" aria-label="Read more about PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Faced with a rise in the number of criminals in Papua New Guinea who are now armed and shooting at the police, Police Commissioner David Manning says “all gloves are off”. “We will not be practising any leniency and we will neutralise the criminals through any means — meaning they will be shot ... <a title="‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/you-will-be-shot-pngs-police-chief-warns-criminals-in-tough-message/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough message">Read more</a>
