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November 17, 2025
RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand. La’aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa’s eighth prime minister on September 16. The Samoan government had previously said he was expected to return ... <a title="Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/samoan-pm-back-home-as-journalist-alleges-assault-outside-his-residence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Pacific Media University of the South Pacific’s Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr Amit Sarwal, has responded to the publication with a Q and A. The new journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University ... <a title="Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/pacific-media-a-renewed-commitment-to-research-on-pacific-media-development-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the news broke in Aotearoa New Zealand that our government had been advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in September to recognise a Palestinian ... <a title="New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/new-zealand-backing-israel-over-two-state-solution-shows-galling-weak-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Bob Howarth6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port Moresby for a journalism training course that changed my life in ways I did not expect. The workshop was about new technology—how to send large photo files by email, something ... <a title="Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/tribute-to-bob-howarth-he-touched-the-pacific-in-ways-words-can-barely-capture/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England I sat in a cafe listening to one man telling another how to get more out of his workers — “his team”, kind of the way people talked about workhorses until some of us read Black Beauty and learned that sentient creatures have feelings, both animals and people. I hope that ... <a title="Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need a massive game change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/saige-england-if-we-want-to-save-the-planet-we-need-a-massive-game-change/" aria-label="Read more about Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need a massive game change">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou’s first visit to New Caledonia is marked by marathon political talks and growing concerns about the French Pacific territory’s deteriorating economic situation. Moutchou arrived on Monday on a visit scheduled to last until tomorrow. With a backdrop of political uncertainty ... <a title="French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/13/french-overseas-minister-holds-marathon-political-talks-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in the Gaza Strip. The committee said that these journalists were among 254 media workers who had been killed since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza in October 2023 ... <a title="Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/israeli-forces-kill-44-journalists-inside-gaza-displacement-tents-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30 presidency and for all leaders committed to advancing climate crisis action. Former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, the “voice” for Oceania, was among the seven climate envoys signing ... <a title="Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/oceania-voice-jacinda-ardern-in-open-letter-climate-crisis-plea-in-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
RNZ Pacific Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative Maureen Penjueli said the Pacific Ocean was being hyper-militarised and there was a desire for seabed minerals to be used to build-up military capacity. “Critical minerals, whether from land ... <a title="Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/pacific-civil-society-warn-of-growing-militarisation-and-mining-pressure-on-the-ocean/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people’s mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a “profound sense of distrust” in the French state’s role in the decolonisation process, a new report released this week has revealed. “This scepticism, articulated by Kanak representatives, is rooted in the belief that France is not a neutral arbiter ... <a title="‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for new Kanaky negotiations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/09/profound-distrust-in-france-says-pacific-peoples-mission-report-calling-for-new-kanaky-negotiations/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for new Kanaky negotiations">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland’s Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while condemning the failure of the country’s coalition government to impose sanctions against the pariah state. “They’ve done nothing,” said Neil Scott, secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA). He ... <a title="NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/09/nz-palestine-protesters-condemn-govt-over-failure-to-impose-sanctions-against-israel/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Palestine protesters condemn govt over failure to impose sanctions against Israel">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2025
RNZ News The current New Zealand government has a “Trumpian accent” that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world’s leading human rights voices says. Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard spoke this week on 30 with Guyon Espiner during her first official visit to New Zealand. Once a country that was ... <a title="NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/08/nz-government-has-trumpian-accent-says-global-human-rights-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government has ‘Trumpian accent’, says global human rights advocate">Read more</a>
