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July 5, 2019
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The Chinese Embassy has for a second time failed to respond to a request for comment concerning its role in the arrest, detention and planned deportation of six Chinese nationals on Vanuatu soil. The Vanuatu Daily Post originally contacted the embassy by telephone last week, but were instructed to ... <a title="Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/05/some-detained-chinese-accused-were-vanuatu-support-citizenship-applicants/" aria-label="Read more about Some detained Chinese accused were Vanuatu support citizenship applicants">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Rosa Koian We all want change and we want that change to happen quickly. Many of us feel deprived of certain opportunities and privileges and therefore miss or forget that we are rich already. As a country we didn’t have to struggle to become an independent democratic nation. READ MORE: Scott Waide’s message ... <a title="Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/20/rosa-koian-png-is-rich-already-we-just-need-to-care-more/" aria-label="Read more about Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care more">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Fifteen months after the treaty pledged to usher in a “new chapter” in the relationship between Australia and neighbouring Timor-Leste, the document remains unratified and the country loses millions of dollars a month from a Timor Sea field belonging to the Timorese. Reporting in the latest edition of Eureka Street, freelance ... <a title="Timor-Leste’s lost oil millions blamed on Australia’s ‘rip-off’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/timor-lestes-lost-oil-millions-blamed-on-australias-rip-off/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste’s lost oil millions blamed on Australia’s ‘rip-off’">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Fiji expects a total value of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2019-2020 to be F$154.4 million, reports FBC News. According to FBC’s northern editor Elenoa Turagaiviu, this will consist of $13.8 million to be disbursed as cash grants and $140.6 million of aid-in-kind contributions. According to the 2019-2020 Budget Supplement, the ... <a title="$154m earmarked for development assistance in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/154m-earmarked-for-development-assistance-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about $154m earmarked for development assistance in Fiji">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Both the Australian and New Zealand governments have pledged to continue and increase financial aid to the Solomon Islands. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia will pledge A$250 million in aid. He made the announcement in Honiara during his first post-election overseas trip. READ MORE: Chinese influence in the ... <a title="More aid to Solomon Islands from Australia and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/more-aid-to-solomon-islands-from-australia-and-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about More aid to Solomon Islands from Australia and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
By Ian Kaukui in Honiara Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has arrived in Solomon Islands on a two-day state visit. His trip to Honiara marks his first overseas trip since being elected in the May 18 federal election. For Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, Morrison is his first overseas counterpart to officially visit him. ... <a title="Morrison arrives in Solomons in first visit by an Australian PM in decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/morrison-arrives-in-solomons-in-first-visit-by-an-australian-pm-in-decade/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison arrives in Solomons in first visit by an Australian PM in decade">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae As the new Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, you have your work cut out for you. You have to try to get a lot of it done within two years before the 2022 elections. That’s a big job. Do what is right by the people. Listen to their ... <a title="Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/01/scott-waide-my-message-to-pngs-prime-minister-james-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2019
OPEN LETTER: By Gary Juffa, Governor of Oro Dear Prime Minister, You sold all our todays and were about to sell our children’s tomorrows too. You were in the most enviable and powerful position to do what is right and just by the people of Papua New Guinea – my people. But instead you and ... <a title="Gary Juffa: Dear PM O’Neill, we’ll stop you selling out our country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/25/gary-juffa-dear-pm-oneill-well-stop-you-selling-out-our-country/" aria-label="Read more about Gary Juffa: Dear PM O’Neill, we’ll stop you selling out our country">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Radio Morobe … “The Morobe provincial government has neglected its upgrading and funding in the last 10 years or more”. Image: Post-Courier COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always reaching out to the mass population of Papua ... <a title="Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/sylvester-gawi-deplorable-neglect-of-pngs-voice-of-the-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2019
Malolo Island … Fiji officials had been given drone footage and photographs of the ongoing destruction in breach of the environmental and planning approvals but nothing was done. Image: FBC News By RNZ Pacific Fiji’s opposition has called for a full investigation by an impartial committee into allegations of collusion by government officials in the ... <a title="Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/16/fiji-opposition-seeks-malolo-damage-probe-criticises-local-media/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2019
This year is a crucial year for Papua New Guinea’s mining industry as important players – in Hela, Porgera and Madang – are being examined over their performance. Video: EMTV COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae Just into the fourth month of 2019, and resource projects in Papua New Guinea have come under scrutiny. Early ... <a title="Scott Waide: Will PNG project reviews mean more benefits for landowners?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/07/scott-waide-will-png-project-reviews-mean-more-benefits-for-landowners/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Will PNG project reviews mean more benefits for landowners?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2019
Cuba’s Leima Freire speaking in Auckland on behalf of ICAP … programmes “helping disadvantaged people”. Image: Michael Andrew/PMC By Michael Andrew Cuba will develop relationships with Pacific countries despite pressure from the United States, says a visiting advocate. On a tour of New Zealand, Leima Martinez Freire, Asia Pacific director of the Cuban Institute for ... <a title="Cuba boosting ‘Pacific connection’ in defiance of US blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/03/cuba-boosting-pacific-connection-in-defiance-of-us-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about Cuba boosting ‘Pacific connection’ in defiance of US blockade">Read more</a>