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March 24, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Southern Cross, a French-hosted regional military exercise, is moving to Wallis and Futuna Islands this year. The exercise, which includes participating regional armed and law enforcement forces from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga every two years, is scheduled to take place April ... <a title="France’s Southern Cross regional military exercise moves to Wallis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/frances-southern-cross-regional-military-exercise-moves-to-wallis/" aria-label="Read more about France’s Southern Cross regional military exercise moves to Wallis">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A joint operation between the Fiji Police Force, Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF), Territorial Force Brigade, Fiji Navy and National Fire Authority was staged this week to “modernise” responses to emergencies. Called “Exercise Genesis”, the joint operation is believed to be the first of its kind in Fiji to “test combat ... <a title="Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels in exercise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/21/joint-fiji-forces-tackle-civil-strife-flash-flood-crisis-and-rebels-in-exercise/" aria-label="Read more about Joint Fiji forces tackle civil strife, flash flood crisis and rebels in exercise">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2025
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago — on 24 January 1990, the same day the Auckland Commonwealth Games opened. Its news bulletins and programmes were carried by a brand new 100kW transmitter. The service was rebranded as RNZ Pacific in 2017. However its ... <a title="RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/rnz-pacific-35-years-of-broadcasting-trusted-news-to-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2024
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and collapsed buildings in the capital Port Vila, as the first trickle of international assistance began arriving in the disaster-prone Pacific nation. The quake rattled the island nation, located about 1900km ... <a title="Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/19/vanuatu-quake-hospitals-under-pressure-as-death-damage-toll-grows/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia has just played host to a 15-nation “Marara” military exercise aimed at increasing “interoperability” between participating armed forces. From May 27 to June 8, the exercise involved about 1000 military from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, ... <a title="French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/french-polynesia-hosts-marara-military-exercise-for-asia-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Scores of people have died in a huge landslide which has struck a remote village in the Papua New Guinean highlands. The landslide reportedly hit Yambali village in Enga Province, about 600 km north-west of Port Moresby. The landslip has buried homes and food gardens, leaving what locals ... <a title="Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/24/hundreds-feared-dead-after-huge-landslide-in-papua-new-guinea/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2023
Indonesia has sent 30 tonnes of relief supplies to aid the Vanuatu government’s recovery efforts post three major natural disasters earlier this year. The humanitarian aid has been delivered on a My Indo Airline B737-800 cargo aircraft that departed from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and landed at Vanuatu’s Bauerfield International Airport today. A representative of the ... <a title="Indonesia sends disaster aid supplies to Vanuatu – warning over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/09/indonesia-sends-disaster-aid-supplies-to-vanuatu-warning-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia sends disaster aid supplies to Vanuatu – warning over West Papua">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2023
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s Minister of Climate Change warns “there’s going to be a lot of hardship” for people waiting for their crops to grow back as dry rations are distributed to communities. Minister Ralph Regenvanu said the main food push started in the middle of last week, with only a small ... <a title="Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/23/vanuatu-minister-says-harvests-will-take-time-to-recover-after-cyclones/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones">Read more</a>
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