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February 5, 2022
By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby Air travellers were left stranded and fuming country-wide as airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air hit a rough patch in operations due to wet weather and a large number of their key staff falling sick and unable to be at work. Flight cancellations were the order of the day ... <a title="Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off sick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/chaos-as-png-airlines-cancel-flights-with-majority-of-staff-off-sick/" aria-label="Read more about Chaos as PNG airlines cancel flights with majority of staff off sick">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis With the arrival of the omicron variant on our shores, it is hard to believe, judging by the media coverage — particularly on MIQ, that the Aotearoa New Zealand government has got anything right in its pandemic response. One important feature that has been missed in the debate on New Zealand’s ... <a title="NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/nz-deserves-far-more-respect-for-keeping-covid-deaths-so-low/" aria-label="Read more about NZ deserves far more respect for keeping covid deaths so low">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2022
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting Māori health providers in Aotearoa New Zealand are holding back on covid-19 vaccinations for children in the face of growing anti-vaxxer protest in the wider Whanganui region. That is despite the area recording the second-lowest rate in the country of vaccinations for children aged 5 to 11 years. Iwi ... <a title="Iwi clinic egged as anti-vaxxers force caution in vaccine rollout for tamariki" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/05/iwi-clinic-egged-as-anti-vaxxers-force-caution-in-vaccine-rollout-for-tamariki/" aria-label="Read more about Iwi clinic egged as anti-vaxxers force caution in vaccine rollout for tamariki">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2022
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Censoring of Facebook in Papua New Guinea can be addressed by three mandated government agencies, says Chief Censor Jim Abani. He was responding to the Post-Courier on how his office was dealing with indecent content posted on Facebook in view of a controversy over a video of an alleged ... <a title="Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/three-png-government-agencies-have-power-to-censor-facebook/" aria-label="Read more about Three PNG government agencies have power to censor Facebook">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
RNZ News New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by the government today. The first stages of the plan would see returning vaccinated New Zealanders able to go into self-isolation and taking a test on arrival, rather than going into ... <a title="Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/covid-19-border-to-reopen-for-new-zealanders-end-of-february/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number to five as the country went into a five-day lockdown. In a press conference in Nuku’alofa yesterday afternoon, Tonga’s Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku said that a woman and her two children ... <a title="Three new covid-19 cases in Tonga as kingdom enters lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/three-new-covid-19-cases-in-tonga-as-kingdom-enters-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Three new covid-19 cases in Tonga as kingdom enters lockdown">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand is shortening the gap between second and third doses of the covid-19 vaccine from four months to three, the government has announced. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield made the announcement this afternoon. Ardern said Cabinet made the decision on the ... <a title="NZ shortens vaccine booster interval to 3 months for omicron ‘head start’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/nz-shortens-vaccine-booster-interval-to-3-months-for-omicron-head-start/" aria-label="Read more about NZ shortens vaccine booster interval to 3 months for omicron ‘head start’">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury Within a month of the first community exposure to omicron in Aotearoa New Zealand, the variant has already become the dominant strain of covid-19. We are yet to see the rapid and steep rise in new omicron ... <a title="Most challenging phase of omicron outbreak yet to come, but New Zealand may be better prepared than most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/most-challenging-phase-of-omicron-outbreak-yet-to-come-but-new-zealand-may-be-better-prepared-than-most/" aria-label="Read more about Most challenging phase of omicron outbreak yet to come, but New Zealand may be better prepared than most">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
OPEN LETTER: A reply to New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis from Afghanistani mother and former broadcaster Muzhgan Samarqandi My name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I am from Baghlan, Afghanistan, but living in New Zealand with my Kiwi husband and our son. Like Charlotte Bellis, I too was a broadcaster in Afghanistan, back when this was ... <a title="Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/muzhgan-samarqandi-miq-debate-trivialises-the-plight-of-women-and-girls-in-afghanistan/" aria-label="Read more about Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A global Papuan students abroad umbrella organisation has appealed for a meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to air their grievances over changes to the scholarship system which they say are unfairly impacting on their studies. In a statement today responding to a letter by the Indonesian Ambassador to New Zealand ... <a title="Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/papuan-students-appeal-for-meeting-with-president-jokowi-to-air-grievances/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan students appeal for meeting with President Jokowi to air grievances">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua’s Guinea’s National Court has issued an interim restraining order stopping the planned eviction of thousands of Morata settlers on portion 2733 in the capital of Port Moresby. MSaka Lawyers, engaged by National Capital District (NCD) Governor Powes Parkop, went to court last Friday in light of the looming eviction by First Estate ... <a title="PNG interim restraining order over eviction of homeless Morata settlers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/01/png-interim-restraining-order-over-eviction-of-homeless-morata-settlers/" aria-label="Read more about PNG interim restraining order over eviction of homeless Morata settlers">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2022
By Sri Krishnamurthi, RNZ Pacific digital journalist South Seas Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola says people are tired of covid-19 rather than complacent after two years of the pandemic. He said he had seen fatigue set in which could explain the low uptake of the booster shot in the Pacific community. “People are ... <a title="Pacific health provider faces covid-19 fatigue within community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/31/pacific-health-provider-faces-covid-19-fatigue-within-community/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific health provider faces covid-19 fatigue within community">Read more</a>
