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February 15, 2024
RNZ Pacific With Indonesia preparing for elections next week, Human Rights Watch has sought answers from the three groups vying for the presidency on how they would resolve human rights violations. Two of the three Indonesian presidential and vice-presidential candidates responded to a questionnaire on key human rights issues. The presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and ... <a title="Indonesian presidential hopefuls explain their West Papua policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/indonesian-presidential-hopefuls-explain-their-west-papua-policies/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian presidential hopefuls explain their West Papua policies">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
By Al Williams of the Cook Islands News Cook islands Deputy Prime Minister Robert Tapaitau, former National Environment Service (NES) director Nga Puna, and his wife and former Secretary of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI), Diane Charlie-Puna, have been found guilty of “all or most offences” following a judgment given by Chief Justice Patrick Keane. In ... <a title="Cook Islands deputy PM, 2 former officials found guilty of corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/cook-islands-deputy-pm-2-former-officials-found-guilty-of-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands deputy PM, 2 former officials found guilty of corruption">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2024
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. New Zealand has fallen slightly in the latest Corruption Perception Index – which measures the least corrupt countries in the world. New Zealand has gone from number two in the world, to number three. The annual index is produced each year by the global anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International. The country’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards Analysis – Luxon needs to raise standards in the Beehive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/31/bryce-edwards-analysis-luxon-needs-to-raise-standards-in-the-beehive/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards Analysis – Luxon needs to raise standards in the Beehive">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian military hospital on Boxing Day. The author personally witnessed the emotional village scenes of his burial and accuses the Indonesian authorities of driving him to his death through draconian treatment. Today ... <a title="Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/revered-papuan-chief-lukas-enembe-tortured-to-death-like-a-boiling-frog/" aria-label="Read more about Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s government has appealed to the Australian Federal Police and the Singapore Police to assist PNG police to link money laundering trails. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister James Marape said Australia and Singapore had been the major hub of transit for possible money laundering activities. He ... <a title="Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/marape-seeks-help-from-australia-singapore-to-fight-png-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2023
By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future metropolis. They ended up in an American jail instead. How they got there is an untold tale of international bribery and grifting that stretched to the very heart of the ... <a title="Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific dream city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/04/chinese-miracle-water-grifters-infiltrated-un-bribed-politicians-to-build-pacific-dream-city/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific dream city">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2023
RNZ Pacific Transparency International Papua New Guinea has welcomed the conviction of lawyer Paul Paraka as the police confirm they are widening the investigation into the fraud case. The NGO admits the depths of Paraka’s activities, revealed by the case, are very worrying. Paraka, who had operated his own eponymous law firm, was convicted of ... <a title="Transparency PNG calls for further charges over ‘worrying’ Paraka case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/03/transparency-png-calls-for-further-charges-over-worrying-paraka-case/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency PNG calls for further charges over ‘worrying’ Paraka case">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2023
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country? Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems to think so and he is partly right in his public statement on the matter in the PNG Post-Courier last month. Unlike in the past, when our people were ... <a title="PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/25/png-corruption-our-people-think-mps-are-automatic-teller-machines/" aria-label="Read more about PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Dissident Papua New Guinean politician and former cabinet minister Bryan Kramer has vowed to fight on in his campaign against corruption, saying the National Court ruling to dismiss him as an MP was “the calm before the storm”. “The decision to dismiss me was expected and of course, it is certainly not the ... <a title="‘Calm before the storm’ – PNG’s Bryan Kramer vows to fight on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/03/calm-before-the-storm-pngs-bryan-kramer-vows-to-fight-on/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Calm before the storm’ – PNG’s Bryan Kramer vows to fight on">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh in Suva The long-running row between the former Fiji government and the Suva-based regional University of the South Pacific (USP) has come back to haunt former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, who spent a night in a police cell on March 9 before appearing in court, charged with abuse of ... <a title="How the USP political saga may end the era of Bainimarama and FijiFirst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/how-the-usp-political-saga-may-end-the-era-of-bainimarama-and-fijifirst/" aria-label="Read more about How the USP political saga may end the era of Bainimarama and FijiFirst">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent The President of the Federated States of Micronesia has made a series of disturbing claims against China, including alleging spying, threats to his personal safety and bribery. President David Panuelo made the claims to his Congress, governors and the leadership of the country’s state legislatures in a letter which ... <a title="Micronesia’s president Panuelo claims spying and bribery by China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/micronesias-president-panuelo-claims-spying-and-bribery-by-china/" aria-label="Read more about Micronesia’s president Panuelo claims spying and bribery by China">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
RNZ Pacific Indonesian anti-curruption authorities have arrested Papua Governor Lukas Enembe on allegations of bribery. The Jakarta Globe called the arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission in a restaurant in the provincial capital Jayapura yesterday as “dramatic” saying it came four months after he had been named a suspect. The arrest led to his supporters ... <a title="Papua governor Enembe arrested on ‘lavish’ bribery charges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/papua-governor-enembe-arrested-on-lavish-bribery-charges/" aria-label="Read more about Papua governor Enembe arrested on ‘lavish’ bribery charges">Read more</a>
