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May 20, 2024
A New Zealander studying at the University of New Caledonia says students have been taught to use fire extinguishers as firefighters are unlikely to come help if there is an emergency. It comes as days of unrest followed a controversial proposed constitutional amendment which would allow more French residents of New Caledonia to vote — ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: NZ student in Nouméa taught to use fire extinguishers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/20/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-nz-student-in-noumea-taught-to-use-fire-extinguishers/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: NZ student in Nouméa taught to use fire extinguishers">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes to reporting the climate crisis, says the European Union’s Pacific Ambassador Barbara Plinkert. Speaking at The University of the South Pacific (USP) on World Press Freedom Day last Friday, Plinkert ... <a title="Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says EU envoy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/pacific-journalists-are-worlds-eyes-and-ears-on-climate-crisis-says-eu-envoy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says EU envoy">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
By Kamna Kumar in Suva Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental crisis at the 2024 World Press Freedom Day event organised by the University of the South Pacific’s journalism programme. Under the theme “A Planet for the Press: Journalism in the ... <a title="Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/puna-calls-for-pacific-journalistic-vigilance-in-face-of-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students’ right to protest against the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, a group of academics at Otago University have today also called on New Zealand academic institutions to “repair colonial violence” and end divestment from any economic ties ... <a title="‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/07/repair-colonial-violence-and-support-gaza-ceasefire-say-otago-academics/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A group of 65 Auckland University academics have written an open letter to vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater criticising the institution’s stance over students protesting in solidarity with Palestine. They have called on her administration to “support” the students who were denied permission to establish an “overnight encampment” by students over Israel’s war on ... <a title="Auckland University staff appeal over Gaza protest in solidarity with students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/auckland-university-staff-appeal-over-gaza-protest-in-solidarity-with-students/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland University staff appeal over Gaza protest in solidarity with students">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2024
RNZ News A group of academic staff at New Zealand’s largest university have expressed concern at the administration’s move to block a protest encampment that was planned to take place on campus calling for support for the rights of Palestinians. This week, the University of Auckland warned that while it supported the right of students ... <a title="Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/auckland-academics-call-out-university-stance-over-pro-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
Council members voted 21 to 4 in favour of Ahluwalia returning to the Laucala campus following a much-awaited meeting in Vanuatu this week. It comes as USP and its two unions — the Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) and the Administration and Support Staff Union (USPSU) — remain locked in ... <a title="USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/usp-council-votes-to-bring-controversial-vc-back-to-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And students at Columbia and other US universities remain defiant as campuses have witnessed the biggest protests since the anti-Vietnam war and anti-apartheid eras in the 1960s and 1980s. But ... <a title="US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/us-student-palestine-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-inspire-global-action/" aria-label="Read more about US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
PNG Post-Courier The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the “valley of tears” in Wapenamanda, Enga, province. Feakes braved fears of tribal warfare when he visited Australian government-funded projects at a tribal fighting zone on Wednesday. The battlefields of Middle Lai, where more than ... <a title="Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/enga-isnt-that-bad-says-australian-diplomat-on-troubled-area-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand’s only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year — and it will mark the occasion at the Pacific Media International Conference in Fiji in July. Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, PJR also published for ... <a title="PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/pjr-to-celebrate-30-years-of-journalism-publishing-at-pacific-media-2024/" aria-label="Read more about PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
Asia Pacific Report From Whangārei in the north to Invercargill in the south, thousands took to the streets of Aotearoa New Zealand in today’s climate strike, RNZ News reports. Hundreds march on Parliament in Wellngton. But it was not just about the climate crisis — the day’s event was led by a coalition including Toitū ... <a title="Thousands march across NZ demanding climate crisis action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/thousands-march-across-nz-demanding-climate-crisis-action/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands march across NZ demanding climate crisis action">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2024
By Temalesi Vono in Suva Fijian bus drivers and bus checkers wake up early in the morning to serve the public so it is disappointing to see school students harassing and bullying them, says the bus operators industry group. Fiji Bus Operators Association general secretary Rohit Latchan said he was responding to a recent video ... <a title="Fiji bus drivers criticise bullying by school student video – ‘we’re human’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/04/fiji-bus-drivers-criticise-bullying-by-school-student-video-were-human/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji bus drivers criticise bullying by school student video – ‘we’re human’">Read more</a>
