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July 22, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province. Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD), three nurses, two doctors from Mingende hospital, and two Catholic education officers returned on a four-day foot patrol to Kiari in Nomane sub-district when they were attacked at Dulai ... <a title="PNG villagers attack priest, nurses and doctors while on Chimbu foot patrol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/png-villagers-attack-priest-nurses-and-doctors-while-on-chimbu-foot-patrol/" aria-label="Read more about PNG villagers attack priest, nurses and doctors while on Chimbu foot patrol">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2024
By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to Jonathan Veitch, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the South Pacific. While raising his concern on the issue at Nasinu Gospel Primary School on Friday, he said 83 percent ... <a title="Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports UNICEF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/21/breaking-the-silence-83-of-fijian-children-suffer-violence-reports-unicef/" aria-label="Read more about Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports UNICEF">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2024
RNZ Pacific The University of the South Pacific staff associations are up in arms about the sacking of a union leader and academic by the university’s chief executive. In a joint press release, the Association of the University of the South Pacific (AUSPS) and the USP Staff Union (USPSU), this week claimed that USP vice-chancellor ... <a title="‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/attack-on-freedom-of-speech-usp-staff-call-out-ahluwalia-for-sacking-union-president/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Delegates at a Pacific media conference in Fiji two weeks ago heard harrowing stories of female reporters facing threats of violence and harassment. This raised the question: is enough being done to protect female reporters in the Pacific region? In 2022, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, in partnership with the University of the South Pacific ... <a title="‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/culture-plays-a-big-part-female-journalists-in-pacific-face-harassment-and-worse/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Indonesia’s commitment to the Pacific continues to be strengthened. One of the strategies is through a commitment to resolving human rights cases in Papua, reports a Kompas correspondent who attended the Pacific International Media Conference in Suva earlier this month. By Laraswati Ariadne Anwar in Suva The Pacific Island countries are Indonesia’s neighbours. However, ... <a title="Fiji, anchor of Indonesian diplomacy in the Pacific – a view from Jakarta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/fiji-anchor-of-indonesian-diplomacy-in-the-pacific-a-view-from-jakarta/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji, anchor of Indonesian diplomacy in the Pacific – a view from Jakarta">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
PMN Pacific Mornings A major conference on the state and future of Pacific media is taking place this week in Fiji. Dr David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network, joins #PacificMornings to discuss the event and reflect on his work covering Asia-Pacific current affairs and research for ... <a title="David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/david-robie-talks-media-challenges-education-and-decolonisation-on-radio-531pis-pacific-mornings/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie talks media challenges, education and decolonisation on Radio 531pi’s Pacific Mornings">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Israel’s targeting of educational institutes across Gaza is “shameful” and contributing to a global crisis for students, says the head of an educational foundation. Talal al-Hathal, director of the Al Fakhoora Programme at Education Above All foundation in Qatar, said: “War has exacerbated the plight of Gaza’s educational sector.” Israel’s targeting of ... <a title="Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/education-head-condemns-israels-shameful-ruin-of-un-schools-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Inside PNG Anna Solomon, a Papua New Guinean journalist and editor with 40 years experience, is now providing training for journalists at the Wantok Niuspepa. Wantok is a weekly newspaper and the only Tok Pisin language newspaper in PNG. Solomon, who spoke during last month’s public inquiry on Media in Papua New Guinea, asked if ... <a title="Veteran PNG editor promotes Tok Pisin writing, trains journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/veteran-png-editor-promotes-tok-pisin-writing-trains-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran PNG editor promotes Tok Pisin writing, trains journalists">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
This King’s Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie’s 50 years of service to Pacific journalism. He says he is astonished and quite delighted, and feels quite humbled by it all. “However, I feel that it’s not just me, I owe an enormous amount to my wife, Del, who is a ... <a title="50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/50-years-of-challenge-and-change-david-robie-reflects-on-a-career-in-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Flipped “back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis in New Caledonia. Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media and educated Pacific journalists for more than four decades. He reported on the indigenous Kanak pro-independence uprising in ... <a title="King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/kings-birthday-honours-nz-journalist-reflects-on-work-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Thousands of students across Aotearoa New Zealand protested in a nationwide rally at seven universities across the country in a global day of solidarity with Palestine, calling on their universities to divest all partnerships with Israel. A combined group of students and academic staff from the country’s two largest universities chanted “AUT ... <a title="NZ students stage Gaza protests in global ‘take a stand’ rallies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/24/nz-students-stage-gaza-protests-in-global-take-a-stand-rallies/" aria-label="Read more about NZ students stage Gaza protests in global ‘take a stand’ rallies">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report For more than 76 years, Palestinians have resisted occupation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing, culminating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Yet in the midst of this catastrophic seven months of “hell on earth”, it is a paradox that there exists an extraordinary oasis of peace and nature. Nestling in an Al-Karkarfa hillside ... <a title="How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/how-palestine-fights-ecocide-with-biodiversity-and-sustainability-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about How Palestine fights ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance">Read more</a>
