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January 16, 2022
An Al Jazeera report on the undersea volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and tsunami yesterday afternoon. Video: Al Jazeera English RNZ News Large waves in the Far North have forced 120 people to be evacuated as big swells from Cyclone Cody and the surge from yesterday’s volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga begin to hit Aotearoa New ... <a title="Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far North" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/16/tonga-volcano-eruption-and-tsunami-120-evacuated-in-nzs-far-north/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far North">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2022
Kaniva Tonga News A new tsunami warning is now in force for all of Tonga following this evening’s violent eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai undersea volcano with tidal waves flooding the shoreline of the capital Nuku’alofa. Parts of New Zealand and Samoa are also under tsunami warning, reports RNZ News. The eruption came shortly after locals ... <a title="New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves reach Tonga’s capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/15/new-tsunami-warning-in-nz-samoa-as-volcano-waves-reach-tongas-capital/" aria-label="Read more about New tsunami warning in NZ, Samoa as volcano waves reach Tonga’s capital">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2021
By Lina Keapu in Port Moresby Two children have died and at least six staff of Papua New Guinea’s National Broadcasting Corporation lost their property worth thousands of kina in a blaze in Boroko. The fire yesterday gutted two units of a four-unit property of the public broadcaster in Tanatana Street, impacting on eight families ... <a title="Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/29/two-children-die-as-fire-guts-pngs-national-broadcaster-units/" aria-label="Read more about Two children die as fire guts PNG’s national broadcaster units">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2021
RNZ News The climate is changing, faster than we thought – and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the most comprehensive report on climate change ever – with hundreds of scientists taking part. It says human activity is “unequivocally” driving the warming of atmosphere, ocean and ... <a title="IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/ipcc-report-last-gasp-warning-on-climate-response-for-nz-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the world">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva Fiji’s opposition SODELPA leader Viliame Gavoka has condemned Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum for their “unimaginable recklessness” over the country’s covid pandemic crisis. The politicians should know “they are held responsible for every covid-19 death for not listening and not doing what is right,” Gavoka said. Fiji ... <a title="SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/sodelpa-leader-blasts-pm-attorney-general-over-fiji-covid-recklessness/" aria-label="Read more about SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Fiji family is mourning the loss of their son after he was killed in the devastating tornado that hit South Auckland on Saturday. Mechanic Janesh Prasad was working at a freight hub when the tornado swept him up and he struck a container. Prasad was carrying out repairs when the tornado hit. ... <a title="Fiji family mourns death of mechanic killed in NZ tornado" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/22/fiji-family-mourns-death-of-mechanic-killed-in-nz-tornado/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji family mourns death of mechanic killed in NZ tornado">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2021
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent A disaster is unfolding in Fiji as covid-19 cases continue to escalate – 94 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest recorded daily number to date. That is the highest ever daily total for the country, and health experts have told 1 NEWS the country is on ... <a title="Fiji disaster unfolds as nation breaks daily covid record with 94 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/14/fiji-disaster-unfolds-as-nation-breaks-daily-covid-record-with-94-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji disaster unfolds as nation breaks daily covid record with 94 new cases">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2021
By Ardila Syakriah and Reno Surya in Jakarta and Surabaya The hopes of the families of the sailors aboard the Indonesian Navy’s KRI Nanggala-402 submarine were dashed at the weekend after the vessel was found in pieces on the seabed north of Bali and all 53 crew members were declared dead. The Indonesian Military (TNI) ... <a title="Indonesian families remember victims of Bali submarine disaster – 53 die" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/27/indonesian-families-remember-victims-of-bali-submarine-disaster-53-die/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian families remember victims of Bali submarine disaster – 53 die">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia and New Zealand – plus other key donors – need to urgently step up and provide assistance to Papuan New Guinea as a covid surge continues to grow, says the human rights watchdog Amnesty International. Both Australia and New Zealand “continue to fail to support calls by around 100 countries”, ... <a title="Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/amnesty-blasts-woeful-australia-nz-aid-for-png-covid-surge-seeks-action/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis Last month, I wrote on Facebook that the resumption of my blog Grubsheet for 2021 was being postponed out of consideration for the national effort to assist the victims of tropical cyclones Yasa and Ana. I made the observation that it was not the time for politics but for supporting the ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/01/graham-davis-fat-cat-leaders-laughing-in-the-face-of-fijis-suffering/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has visited Goilala’s remote Saki village near Tolukuma gold mine in the Goilala district of Central Province to see the extent of the damage caused by the landslide, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Fifteen people, including three children, are feared dead in this devastating natural ... <a title="PNG Prime Minister Marape visits Saki landslide disaster site" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/07/png-prime-minister-marape-visits-saki-landslide-disaster-site/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Prime Minister Marape visits Saki landslide disaster site">Read more</a>
