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March 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific An 83-year-old woman in Wallis and Futuna has become the first fatality in the French territory’s covid-19 outbreak. Earlier this month, she had been transferred from Futuna to the Wallis hospital for other ailments. However, after her release from hospital, she tested positive for covid-19 a week ago, was rehospitalised and died at ... <a title="Wallis and Futuna reports first covid-19 fatality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/wallis-and-futuna-reports-first-covid-19-fatality/" aria-label="Read more about Wallis and Futuna reports first covid-19 fatality">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Timorese authorities have announced that they have detected a record surge in new covid-19 cases – 55 in one day. According to Lusa news agency yesterday, 43 new cases of covid-19 were reported in the previous 24 hours in the capital Dili, 11 in Baucau and one in Viqueque, bringing the ... <a title="Timor-Leste reports big surge in covid – 55 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/timor-leste-reports-big-surge-in-covid-55-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste reports big surge in covid – 55 new cases">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific social justice movement is calling on the New Zealand government to formally apologise for the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The Labour and then National governments of the time authorised police raids on Pasifika homes and work places, to check for overstayers; even churches and schools were ... <a title="Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/appeal-for-nz-government-to-offer-apology-for-race-based-dawn-raids/" aria-label="Read more about Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The trial of a former US priest accused of child abuse in Timor-Leste due to resume tomorrow at the Oecusse Court has been postponed until May 24, according to judicial sources. The president of the Court of Appeal, Deolindo dos Santos, confirmed the postponement to Lusa news agency, explaining that he ... <a title="Trial of ex-priest accused of child abuse in Timor postponed to May" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/trial-of-ex-priest-accused-of-child-abuse-in-timor-postponed-to-may/" aria-label="Read more about Trial of ex-priest accused of child abuse in Timor postponed to May">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist The race is on to reach Pasifika communities in New Zealand to counter the spread of misinformation about the covid-19 vaccine. Pacific and Māori communities have the highest risk of dying from covid-19 and that has caused leaders and doctors within this group to work hard to dispel fears ... <a title="Battle to spread truth about covid-19 vaccine in Pacific communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/battle-to-spread-truth-about-covid-19-vaccine-in-pacific-communities/" aria-label="Read more about Battle to spread truth about covid-19 vaccine in Pacific communities">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
New Zealand has long had a privileged relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Now, in the dawning era of the climate crisis affecting millions of lives across the Pacific, the country has its helping hand outstretched. But with the controversial record of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, does this hand have an ulterior motive? Matthew Scott ... <a title="Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/strings-attached-the-reality-behind-nzs-climate-aid-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
MEAA video message on YouTube. Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) union is reconsidering its involvement in the Australian Press Council and has appealed to members to give feedback on this issue. Vice-president media Karen Percy has appealed to delegates on a YouTube video to take part in this consultation. ... <a title="MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/meaa-rethinks-press-council-role-and-backs-need-for-facebook-media-code/" aria-label="Read more about MEAA rethinks press council role and backs need for Facebook media code">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia and New Zealand – plus other key donors – need to urgently step up and provide assistance to Papuan New Guinea as a covid surge continues to grow, says the human rights watchdog Amnesty International. Both Australia and New Zealand “continue to fail to support calls by around 100 countries”, ... <a title="Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/amnesty-blasts-woeful-australia-nz-aid-for-png-covid-surge-seeks-action/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva Reports that Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has pulled the plug on Fiji’s draft Police Bill 2020 has raised more questions than answers and left critics puzzled. What, when, where, why, and how were pressing questions people asked as they tried to unravel how the bill was thrust into the public ... <a title="Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/fiji-draft-bill-cops-boot-pms-move-on-proposed-police-law-puzzles-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
A pioneering indigenous activist is being farewelled today after losing a short battle with cancer. Miriama Rauhihi Ness was a member of the Polynesian Panthers and Ngā Tamatoa movements, fighting for both Māori and Pasifika rights in New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia, a founding member of the Polynesian Panthers, said Rauhihi Ness was always on the ... <a title="Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/pioneering-polynesian-panther-indigenous-rights-activist-farewelled/" aria-label="Read more about Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2021
I stayed away from the livestream that we in EMTV produced out of Port Moresby. I did watch parts of it. But it has been hard to watch a full session without becoming emotional and emotion is something that has been in abundance over the last 16 days. There are a thousand and one narratives ... <a title="Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/scott-waide-grand-chief-somare-and-the-wisdom-he-left-for-everyone/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Grand Chief Somare and the wisdom he left for everyone">Read more</a>
