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July 20, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand’s unprecedented “internet-native mass shooting” attack on two mosques, the New Caledonia independence referendum, Fiji’s general election and news media responses are featured in the latest Pacific Journalism Review being published next week. Analysis articles in the “democracy and terrorism edition” include award-winning New Zealand Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson and ... <a title="NZ mosque massacre, New Caledonia referendum and Fiji elections top PJR" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/20/nz-mosque-massacre-new-caledonia-referendum-and-fiji-elections-top-pjr/" aria-label="Read more about NZ mosque massacre, New Caledonia referendum and Fiji elections top PJR">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2019
By Gorothy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape will visit Australia this weekend for a week-long state visit and the Bougainville independence referendum in less than three months is expected to be high on the agenda. Marape will leave Port Moresby on Sunday and will start his visit with a ... <a title="Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/19/bougainville-referendum-on-agenda-during-marapes-state-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Indonesian government is furious over the Oxford City Council’s decision to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade, reports Kumparan. “Indonesia strongly condemns the award by the Oxford City Council for this person,” said the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry in a written statement ... <a title="Indonesia furious over Oxford award for Benny Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/indonesia-furious-over-oxford-award-for-benny-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia furious over Oxford award for Benny Wenda">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
By RNZ Pacific The United Nations in Papua New Guinea is boosting its presence in the Highlands as it works with the government to improve access to justice for tribal communities. The acting resident coordinator said the massacre of 24 women and children near Tari last week has focussed the need for more conflict resolution. ... <a title="UN to have greater presence in PNG Highlands for ‘conflict resolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/un-to-have-greater-presence-in-png-highlands-for-conflict-resolution/" aria-label="Read more about UN to have greater presence in PNG Highlands for ‘conflict resolution’">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s threat to pursue anyone who impedes investment is worrying environmental activists who claim that such actions could criminalise those fighting for the environment, reports CNN Indonesia. Jokowi made the threat during his July 14 “Vision Indonesia” speech, in which he said he would chase and “soundly ... <a title="Jokowi’s investment vision worrying environmental activists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/jokowis-investment-vision-worrying-environmental-activists/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi’s investment vision worrying environmental activists">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two school girls from East Java, Aeshnina Azzahra (alias Nina), 12, and Zahira Zade, 11, have sent hand-written protest letters to US President Donald Trump over the dumping of toxic plastic waste in Indonesia. The letters were sent through the US Consulate-General in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya, reports ... <a title="Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/17/indonesian-schoolgirls-tell-trump-take-back-your-toxic-rubbish/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland More than 50 years of “torture” has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the complicity of Western governments, great fear has been put in the hearts and minds of people across the Pacific. These terrors have become cancerous tumours in the body of the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/yamin-kogoya-why-indonesian-trade-expo-deception-wont-win-pacific-hearts-and-minds/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation following the horrific killing of 23 women (two of whom were pregnant) and nine children in the worst payback killing in our country’s history. In my capacity as Minister for ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/bryan-kramer-png-merciless-payback-killings-have-changed-everything/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has a healthy lead on the Pacific Games medals table after the first week of the competition. The French Territory has won 42 gold medals after the first six days of competition and more than 50 silver and bronze, with host nation Samoa the nearest challenger with 26 gold medals ... <a title="Pacific Games: New Caledonia lead, Samoa second at halfway point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/pacific-games-new-caledonia-lead-samoa-second-at-halfway-point/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Games: New Caledonia lead, Samoa second at halfway point">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation following the horrific killing of 23 women (two of whom were pregnant) and nine children in the worst payback killing in our country’s history. In my capacity as Minister for Police, ... <a title="PNG ‘merciless’ killings have changed everything, says Bryan Kramer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/png-merciless-killings-have-changed-everything-says-bryan-kramer/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘merciless’ killings have changed everything, says Bryan Kramer">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Oxford City Council is to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade for his tireless fight for West Papuan self-determination. Wenda, whom the United Kingdom granted political asylum in 2002, lives in Oxford with his family and it serves as the headquarters of ... <a title="West Papua’s Benny Wenda to be awarded Oxford’s highest honour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/west-papuas-benny-wenda-to-be-awarded-oxfords-highest-honour/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s Benny Wenda to be awarded Oxford’s highest honour">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2019
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide in Karida, Papua New Guinea On Wednesday, some of the bodies of 18 women and children in Papua New Guinea were buried by the roadside in Karida Number One village. They were the latest innocent victims of a 20-year tribal war driven by local warlords in the Tagali Local level ... <a title="Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/12/women-who-died-in-pngs-karida-massacre-were-community-anchors/" aria-label="Read more about Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’">Read more</a>
