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August 11, 2023
By Felix Walton, RNZ News reporter A New Zealander on holiday in Maui says the wildfires devastating the Hawai’ian island are unlike anything he has seen before. Deadly wildfires on Maui prompted a county-wide state of emergency, and several brush fires have also caused evacuations on Hawai’i Island. Officials say at least 53 people have ... <a title="Lāhainā ‘completely wiped out’ – US declares Maui wildfires disaster as toll tops 53" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/lahaina-completely-wiped-out-us-declares-maui-wildfires-disaster-as-toll-tops-53/" aria-label="Read more about Lāhainā ‘completely wiped out’ – US declares Maui wildfires disaster as toll tops 53">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
It was an evening of celebration in Manukau, the heart of South Auckland, as Pasifika musicians from around New Zealand were recognised at the 2023 Pacific Music Awards last night. The awards have been held annually since 2005 highlighting the “essential role Pacific music plays in defining culture and identity”. This year’s big winners included ... <a title="Melodownz, Sam V, Olivia Foa’i among big winners at Pacific Music Awards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/melodownz-sam-v-olivia-foai-among-big-winners-at-pacific-music-awards/" aria-label="Read more about Melodownz, Sam V, Olivia Foa’i among big winners at Pacific Music Awards">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2023
Pacific Media Watch A new media monitoring watchdog, Muslim Media Watch, published its first edition today featuring a cover story alleging that a Malaysian cult leader who was reportedly now in New Zealand could “create social unrest”. Named as Suhaini bin Mohammad, he was allegedly posing as a Muslim religious leader and was said to ... <a title="Allegations over cult leader feature in new Muslim Media Watch outlet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/10/allegations-over-cult-leader-feature-in-new-muslim-media-watch-outlet/" aria-label="Read more about Allegations over cult leader feature in new Muslim Media Watch outlet">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2023
By Dale Luma and Pearson Kolo in Port Moresby Sixty-year-old Funki Uin continues his struggle in vain in Papua New Guinea as he tries to follow up over his late brother, Jhuke Uin’s, savings parked in a major national retirement fund since he died in 2019. He has been repeatedly visiting the branch of Nambawan ... <a title="Growing controversy over ‘blocked’ PNG next-of-kin pension pay outs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/10/growing-controversy-over-blocked-png-next-of-kin-pension-pay-outs/" aria-label="Read more about Growing controversy over ‘blocked’ PNG next-of-kin pension pay outs">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2023
PNG Post-Courier As drivers and pedestrians continued on their daily business yesterday afternoon in Papua New Guinea’s capital city Port Moresby, a cry went out as someone yelled “fire”. Located along Gabaka Street, Gordons, and within a compound that houses L and G Trading Limited Hardware Store and Bola Motors, a fire erupted from one ... <a title="PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/10/png-firefighters-battle-to-stop-port-moresby-blaze/" aria-label="Read more about PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has called again for the immediate release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who has now been held hostage by pro-independence fighters in West Papua for six months. Speaking in Auckland, Hipkins said Mehrtens — a pilot for the Indonesian airline Susi Air which provide air links to remote ... <a title="Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/hipkins-urges-release-of-nz-hostage-six-months-after-papua-kidnapping/" aria-label="Read more about Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a “United Indigenous Nations” for global justice and an end to Indonesia’s ‘malignant’ colonisation of West Papua. Today — August 9 — is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as declared at the inaugural UN Working ... <a title="OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/opm-leader-calls-for-world-indigenous-un-end-to-papuan-colonisation/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a raid in Western Highlands province last week. The arrests identified a further seven men who were alleged to be part of a blackmarket network who move the illegal items from ... <a title="PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/png-seize-big-firearms-stockpile-arrest-10-in-highlands-blackmarket-raid/" aria-label="Read more about PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
By Joy Olali and Max Oraka Papua New Guinea’s literacy rate stands at 63.4 percent — the lowest in the Pacific — with the government planning for it to reach 70 percent by 2027, an official says. Career Trackers chief executive Ellenor Lutikoe told the National Content Conference in Port Moresby that according to the ... <a title="PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to 70%" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/pngs-literacy-rate-lowest-in-pacific-but-government-plans-boost-to-70/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to 70%">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
By David Robie New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has died. He was just two weeks shy of his 60th birthday. Fiji-born on 15 August 1963, just after his elder twin brother Murali, Sri grew up in the port city of ... <a title="Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/moce-sri-krishnamurthi-sports-journalist-democracy-activist-storyteller-and-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2023
By David Robie Two researchers examining responses to conspiratorial pandemic narratives have warned Aotearoa New Zealand not to be complacent over the risk of fringe views over climate crisis becoming populist. Byron C. Clark, a video essayist and author of the recent book Fear: New Zealand’s Hostile Underworld of Extremists, and Emmanuel Stokes, a postgraduate ... <a title="Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election nears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/06/researchers-warn-over-climate-crisis-fringe-views-danger-as-nz-election-nears/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers warn over climate crisis ‘fringe views’ danger as NZ election nears">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021 by Indonesian security forces on a remote West Papuan village close to the Papua New Guinea border as part of an ongoing crackdown against growing calls for independence. The ... <a title="New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/new-documentary-human-rights-report-allege-indonesian-atrocities-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua">Read more</a>
