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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A one metre-deep hole in the ground is all there is to show of an almost K2.7 million state contract project in Papua New Guinea’s Northern Province, reports PNG Post-Courier. The project was for the design, pre-fabrication and construction of a community health post building with support facilities for Kiorata in ... <a title="K2.7 million hole, other failed PNG projects land contractors in court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/k2-7-million-hole-other-failed-png-projects-land-contractors-in-court/" aria-label="Read more about K2.7 million hole, other failed PNG projects land contractors in court">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
By Edwin Nand in Suva A four-month-old baby boy has died from covid-19 in Fiji. Health Secretary Dr James Fong has confirmed the child was admitted at the Colonial War Memorial (CWM) Hospital five days before he succumbed to the virus. He is among three deaths reported in Fiji over a seven day period between ... <a title="Baby among Fiji’s three new covid deaths reported this week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/baby-among-fijis-three-new-covid-deaths-reported-this-week/" aria-label="Read more about Baby among Fiji’s three new covid deaths reported this week">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour’s act this week undermining an indigenous response to New Zealand’s covid-19 pandemic as “unbelievably irresponsible and cruel”. Seymour publicly shared a priority vaccine code for Māori so that Pākehā, or non-Māori, could jump the queue for vaccinations against the ... <a title="Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/seymours-sabotage-of-maori-priority-vaccine-code-unbelievably-cruel/" aria-label="Read more about Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesian authorities have been accused of adopting a strategy of deploying military force to drive thousands of Papuans from their homes to make way for powerful business interests. The accusation comes from the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) in a statement responding to news that about 2400 internal refugees ... <a title="Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/indonesia-accused-of-forcing-mass-flights-of-papuans-for-business/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk In a seven-minute social media broadcast, President Duwa Lashi La has declared it is time to stop the military regime’s ongoing torture, detention, jailing and murder of civilians opposed to the military coup seven months ago. And he added that it is vital to halt the regime’s dismantling of the country’s ... <a title="Burma’s National Unity Government ‘declares war’ on military regime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/burmas-national-unity-government-declares-war-on-military-regime/" aria-label="Read more about Burma’s National Unity Government ‘declares war’ on military regime">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Fiji celebrated Constitution Day today virtually due to the ongoing civid-19 pandemic crisis, but many see the day as a hollow event not worth celebrating. The national holiday marks the eighth year that the adoption of the controversial and contested 2013 Constitution by the Bainimarama government has been observed. Among the ... <a title="Fiji’s Constitution Day? Nothing but a ‘national joke’, says Prasad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/fijis-constitution-day-nothing-but-a-national-joke-says-prasad/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Constitution Day? Nothing but a ‘national joke’, says Prasad">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has detected three cases of Covid-19 in the community and ordered a two-week lockdown from midday today. The three cases are not connected and involve people who have not travelled, suggesting the virus is circulating in the community. Territorial President Louis Mapou said investigations had been launched immediately to identify contacts ... <a title="New Caledonia begins two-week lockdown in new covid-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/new-caledonia-begins-two-week-lockdown-in-new-covid-19-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia begins two-week lockdown in new covid-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter New Zealand’s Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist’s violent behaviour while he was remanded in prison. Thirty-two-year-old Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall in West Auckland. He had spent almost three years on remand ... <a title="NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/nz-corrections-found-attacker-increasingly-hostile-and-abusive/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk New Caledonia has declared all schools in the Southern province closed for two weeks from tomorrow after health authorities reported at least three cases of the covid-19 delta variant have been detected in the territory. All flights to the Loyalty Islands have been cancelled, reports Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes. Territorial President Louis ... <a title="Three delta cases of covid detected in New Caledonia – schools closed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/three-delta-cases-of-covid-detected-in-new-caledonia-schools-closed/" aria-label="Read more about Three delta cases of covid detected in New Caledonia – schools closed">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand, outside of Auckland, will move to alert level 2 from 11.59pm Tuesday, September 7. Delta alert level 2 looks different and settings have been changed. Auckland will stay in level 4 until 11.59pm next Tuesday, September 14. Schools will be given 48 hours to reopen ... <a title="New Zealand, except Auckland, to move to covid alert level ‘delta 2’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/new-zealand-except-auckland-to-move-to-covid-alert-level-delta-2/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand, except Auckland, to move to covid alert level ‘delta 2’">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesian police have arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on the Kisor military post which killed four soldiers late last week, reports Antara news agency from Sorong. “The suspects have admitted their involvement,” claimed the commander of the XVIII/Kasuari Regional Military Command, Major General I Nyoman Castiasa, after paying ... <a title="Indonesian military say two Papuan rebels arrested over Kisor post attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/indonesian-military-say-two-papuan-rebels-arrested-over-kisor-post-attack/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military say two Papuan rebels arrested over Kisor post attack">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”. This means a generation growing up under under fears and moral panics about Muslims and unparalleled security measures around their bodies and lives. In my new book, Coming of Age in the War on Terror, ... <a title="‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/im-not-afraid-of-terrorism-im-afraid-of-being-accused-of-being-a-terrorist-growing-up-muslim-after-9-11/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11">Read more</a>
