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July 16, 2025
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied West Bank, I can list endless reasons why there is no peace in the “Holy Land”. I live in a refugee camp, alongside families who were expelled from their ... <a title="First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/first-hand-view-of-peacemaking-challenge-in-the-holy-land/" aria-label="Read more about First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2023
By Vijay Narayan and Mosese Raqio in Suva Grace Road group Fiji president Daniel Kim is currently in Fiji immigration custody as he has been declared a prohibited immigrant, according to Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua. Speaking to Fijivillage News this afternoon, Tikoduadua confirmed that Kim had been located and that he was a prohibited immigrant. ... <a title="Fiji immigration officials detain Grace Road cult leader Daniel Kim" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/08/fiji-immigration-officials-detain-grace-road-cult-leader-daniel-kim/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji immigration officials detain Grace Road cult leader Daniel Kim">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2023
By Anish Chand in Lautoka The High Court in Lautoka yesterday issued orders to the Fiji police and the Immigration Department not to remove four members of the controversial South Korean religious cult Grace Road from Fiji. They are Beomseop Shin, Byeongjoon Lee, Jung “Daniel” Yong Kim and Jinsook Yoon. The interim injunction was issued ... <a title="Interpol ‘red notices’ against 7 Grace Road cult figures, but court orders stay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/08/interpol-red-notices-against-7-grace-road-cult-figures-but-court-orders-stay/" aria-label="Read more about Interpol ‘red notices’ against 7 Grace Road cult figures, but court orders stay">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
RNZ Pacific A former president of Kiribati warns the crisis involving the island nation’s government and the courts has left the country with a “dysfunctional judiciary” and put a question mark over its democratic system. The Kiribati government suspended its chief justice in July and last Thursday immigration and police detained and attempted to deport ... <a title="Former Kiribati president warns judicial crisis could undermine democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/former-kiribati-president-warns-judicial-crisis-could-undermine-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Former Kiribati president warns judicial crisis could undermine democracy">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
Host Selwyn Manning with security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan on this week’s A View From Afar podcast. Video: EveningReport.nz on YouTubeA VIEW FROM AFAR: Podcast with Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan In this week’s security podcast, Dr Paul G. Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss: three areas that have been relied on to protect New Zealanders ... <a title="A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been prevented?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/a-view-from-afar-could-aucklands-lynnmall-stabbing-attack-have-been-prevented/" aria-label="Read more about A View From Afar: Could Auckland’s LynnMall stabbing attack have been prevented?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today delivered the government’s apology for the Dawn Raids against Pasifika overstayers. She apologised for the raids in the 1970s which happened under both Labour and National governments. “The government expresses its sorrow, remorse and regret that the Dawn Raids and random police checks occurred and that ... <a title="NZ government makes apology over Dawn Raids targeting Pasifika" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/02/nz-government-makes-apology-over-dawn-raids-targeting-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government makes apology over Dawn Raids targeting Pasifika">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
The Polynesian Panther Party will hold a three-day fonotaga commemoration event this weekend at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika. Whakaako kia Whakaora – Educate to Liberate. Image: RNZ/Polynesian Panthers Dawn Raid apology The Panthers’ golden jubilee couldn’t be more forthcoming, given an announcement made this week of a formal government apology for the 1970s ... <a title="50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers-it-was-a-time-of-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent As the New Zealand government confirmed it would apologise for the 1970s Dawn Raids against Pacific Islanders, memories have surfaced for those traumatised by them, including one elderly man. The politically-driven crackdown on overstayers from the Pacific Islands involved special police squads raiding homes and workplaces, often in ... <a title="Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/elderly-pasifika-man-sobs-as-memories-of-dawn-raids-surface-over-apology/" aria-label="Read more about Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2021
By Achmad Nasrudin Yahya in Jakarta The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) is calling in a pledge made by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 over press freedom in Papua that has never been fulfilled over the past five years. AJI trade union advocacy division head Erick Tanjung said that at the beginning of Widodo’s ... <a title="Media alliance calls in Jokowi’s pledge to allow foreign journalists into Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/06/media-alliance-calls-in-jokowis-pledge-to-allow-foreign-journalists-into-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Media alliance calls in Jokowi’s pledge to allow foreign journalists into Papua">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Deported Canadian academic Professor Pal Ahluwalia is still vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South Pacific, says chancellor Lionel Aingimea. Professor Ahluwalia and his wife, nursing lecturer Sandra Price, were forced to leave Fiji in early February after the Fiji government claimed the couple had breached provisions in their work permits. ... <a title="Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/ahluwalia-still-usps-vice-chancellor-says-aingimea/" aria-label="Read more about Ahluwalia still USP’s vice-chancellor, says Aingimea">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
RNZ News Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand. Little detail has been made public about the teen other than that he is being held in a quarantine facility and is receiving support from Oranga Tamariki. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ... <a title="Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/australias-deportation-of-15-year-old-boy-heartbreaking-says-green-mp/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for Fiji and the “Sea of Islands”. As a son of the Pacific committed to Oceania, I am dismayed by recent events at USP. I write in support of all the ... <a title="How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/how-fiji-could-help-resolve-the-pal-ahluwalia-and-usp-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis">Read more</a>