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August 19, 2019
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced their way into a student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya at the weekend. The Papuan students were forcibly removed from their dormitory on Jl Kalasan yesterday ... <a title="Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/indonesian-police-raid-papuan-student-dormitory-with-tear-gas-arrest-43/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly “fierce” Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter documental terms to downplay its commitment to climate change mitigation. According to RNZ Pacific, a communiqué and separate statement on climate change was released after a 12-hour meeting between the ... <a title="Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/australia-has-coal-removed-from-pif-documentation/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Australia’s coal policy and its use of carry over credits to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement have come under fire and been major points of contention at this year’s 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. READ MORE: ‘We should have done more for our people’ – Forum climate change fight ... <a title="‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/bullying-australia-disregards-pacific-over-climate-crisis-says-350-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk By Makereta Komai in Funafuti, Tuvalu Tonga’s Prime Minister, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, has delivered a stinging attack against regionalism and the Pacific Islands Forum’s stance of leaving no one behind, for failing to amicably resolve the issue of West Papua. Pohiva admitted the issue has divided the 18 members of the Forum ... <a title="Tongan PM blasts Pacific regionalism ‘myth’ and silence over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/tongan-pm-blasts-pacific-regionalism-myth-and-silence-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan PM blasts Pacific regionalism ‘myth’ and silence over West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Australia looks to have succeeded in watering down language on climate change in the communiqué of today’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit in Tuvalu. Small Pacific states sought firm commitments from developed countries to stop global temperatures rising by more than 1.5 degrees this century. Pacific Islands leaders also wanted a commitment ... <a title="Australia ‘waters down’ Tuvalu Forum communique’s climate references" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/15/australia-waters-down-tuvalu-forum-communiques-climate-references/" aria-label="Read more about Australia ‘waters down’ Tuvalu Forum communique’s climate references">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By Matthew Vari in Funafuti, Tuvalu Relocation is a cheap option for sinking island countries – but “we are going to stay”, vows Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, who is this year’s chair of the Pacific Islands Forum. Sopoaga highlighted this during a press conference held before the main Forum meetings took place. He said ... <a title="Relocation for ‘sinking islands’ cheaper but ‘we’re staying’, vows Tuvalu PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/relocation-for-sinking-islands-cheaper-but-were-staying-vows-tuvalu-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Relocation for ‘sinking islands’ cheaper but ‘we’re staying’, vows Tuvalu PM">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tonga is mulling a Facebook ban as the Kingdom struggles to contain a torrent of online abuse and threats on the platform directed at the monarchy by pro-government forces. It’s the latest fallout in an escalating digital war between the pro-democracy camp and those firmly backing Tonga’s constitutional monarchy, which bestows the ... <a title="‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/we-cant-control-the-demons-tonga-mulls-facebook-ban/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By Michael Andrew The devastating loss of life and suffering from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been remembered in Auckland. Organised by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the 74th anniversary of the bombings brought activists and members of the public to the Ellen Melville Centre to commemorate ... <a title="Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance bolsters peace and protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-remembrance-bolsters-peace-and-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance bolsters peace and protest">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk As four more journalists were assaulted in the North Point in Hong Kong area on Sunday August 11th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called on the authorities to put an end to the violence against the press. In the past two months, journalists covering the anti-extradition bill protests were increasingly the ... <a title="RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/rsf-condemns-journalist-assault-as-hong-kong-violence-escalates/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2019
By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific There was a frenetic energy outside the Sir Tomasi Puapua Convention Centre on Sunday, where the finishing touches were being hurriedly put to the newly-built centre on reclaimed land here on Tuvalu’s main atoll, Funafuti. People were sweeping the freshly-laid pavement, laying out the desks inside, finishing off the ... <a title="Pacific Islands Forum: What to watch out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/12/pacific-islands-forum-what-to-watch-out-for/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Islands Forum: What to watch out for">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk This week marks the 74th anniversary of the United States atomic bombings of Japan, bringing with it the annual renewed debate over the morality of the decision to force the country’s unconditional surrender by unleashing the Allies’ terrible new weapon on two heavily populated cities that were critical to the Japanese ... <a title="Gallery: A peaceful day remembering the horrendous fate of Nagasaki" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/11/gallery-a-peaceful-day-remembering-the-horrendous-fate-of-nagasaki/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: A peaceful day remembering the horrendous fate of Nagasaki">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An American journalist working in the Philippines on indigenous environmental and human rights issues has been shot and critically wounded while fetching his daughter from school in the northern province of Ifugao, according to his news media outlet and other press reports, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The New ... <a title="American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/11/american-environmental-journalist-shot-critically-wounded-in-philippines/" aria-label="Read more about American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines">Read more</a>
