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February 22, 2022
COMMENTARY: EMTV’s deputy news editor Jack Lapauve Jr in Port Moresby writes in defence of the newsroom’s decision to walk out in protest over the suspension of head of news and current affairs Sincha Dimara on February 7. The EMTV News editorial decision to run the two stories [about the court cases involving Australian hotel ... <a title="Jack Lapauve: Why we walked out in protest over EMTV news independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/jack-lapauve-why-we-walked-out-in-protest-over-emtv-news-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Jack Lapauve: Why we walked out in protest over EMTV news independence">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane Google images of a country or region can offer a wealth of information about the people and cultures that live there. Some images accurately portray reality while others present camouflage, attempting to deceive or twist our perception. From a marketing standpoint, it’s all about selling the national identity, brands ... <a title="How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/how-google-moulds-public-opinion-on-west-papua-disrupts-education/" aria-label="Read more about How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A global Papuan student welfare advocacy group has condemned the Indonesian government’s disruption of autonomous local education grants supporting studies abroad, branding the move as “assassinating” indigenous human resource development. The International Alliance of Papuan Student Associations Overseas (IAPSAO) issued an open letter today headed “Do not disturb and hinder [us] ... <a title="Global Papuan student body condemns Jakarta’s disruption of study funds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/global-papuan-student-body-condemns-jakartas-disruption-of-study-funds/" aria-label="Read more about Global Papuan student body condemns Jakarta’s disruption of study funds">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato As the New Zealand government prepares to deal with a looming omicron outbreak, this will not be the only major issue it will have to tackle this year. The year 2022 will be important for environmental and climate action. Several key developments are expected throughout the year, both ... <a title="Covid will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/27/covid-will-dominate-but-new-zealand-will-also-have-to-face-the-triple-planetary-crisis-this-year/" aria-label="Read more about Covid will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Joyce McClure in Guam I spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time I was harassed, spat at, threatened with assassination and warned that I was being followed. The tyres on my car were slashed late one night. There was also pressure on ... <a title="Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed for my reporting’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/11/pacific-media-dangers-i-had-death-threats-and-my-tyres-slashed-for-my-reporting/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media dangers: ‘I had death threats and my tyres slashed for my reporting’">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday has to be it. The colours were there, the love and laughter were there, the sadness, emotions, losses, highs and lows, the bleakness of our long-suffering population and blackness of ... <a title="The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/the-bleak-and-black-covid-year-that-shook-papua-new-guinea-to-the-core/" aria-label="Read more about The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea to the core">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2022
ANALYSIS: By David Robie in Auckland The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020. Just two days before the year 2021 wrapped up, Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama took the extraordinary statement of ... <a title="‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/02/secret-plots-sovereignty-and-covid-challenges-face-pacific-for-new-year/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Secret plots’, sovereignty and covid challenges face Pacific for New Year">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
OBITUARY: By John Minto Palestine has lost a champion of the struggle against Israeli apartheid with the death of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, aged 90. Tutu is known internationally as a leader of the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work reconciling South Africans ... <a title="Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A friend of Aotearoa NZ and a champion of Palestinian human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/archbishop-desmond-tutu-a-friend-of-aotearoa-nz-and-a-champion-of-palestinian-human-rights/" aria-label="Read more about Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A friend of Aotearoa NZ and a champion of Palestinian human rights">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
OBITUARY: By Professor Biman Prasad Brij Vilash Lal, banished from the land of his birth by the Bainimarama government in November 2009 for championing democracy and barred from entering Fiji upon the orders of the Prime Minister, has died in Brisbane, 12 years after the draconian act of a heartless government. The sudden and shocking ... <a title="Professor Brij Lal: A champion of democracy and Fiji’s finest scholar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/professor-brij-lal-a-champion-of-democracy-and-fijis-finest-scholar/" aria-label="Read more about Professor Brij Lal: A champion of democracy and Fiji’s finest scholar">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby has kicked out gender-based violence survivors, leaving them homeless for the festive season. One of the survivors, 37-year-old Gathy Peter from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ... <a title="Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/christmas-on-the-street-for-png-survivor-of-jailed-wife-basher/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist Armed conflict in West Papua continues to claim lives, displace tens of thousands of people and cause resentment at Indonesian rule. But despite ongoing calls for help, neighbouring countries in the Pacific Islands region remain largely silent and ineffectual in their response. This year, Indonesia’s military has ... <a title="60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/60000-flee-as-west-papua-conflict-deepens-poses-questions-for-region/" aria-label="Read more about 60,000 flee as West Papua conflict deepens, poses questions for region">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific The United Nations says Indonesia must immediately drop charges and look into threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family. Veronica Koman, a human and minority rights lawyer, is in self-imposed exile in Australia. However, she still faces several charges in Indonesia for alleged incitement, spreading fake news, ... <a title="UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/un-warns-indonesia-to-stop-reprisals-against-human-rights-defender/" aria-label="Read more about UN warns Indonesia to stop reprisals against human rights defender">Read more</a>
