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June 26, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Pip Hinman in Sydney Long-time Australian climate campaigner David Spratt and former fossil fuel company executive Ian Dunlop have issued a bold call for unlikely partners to work together to avoid climate catastrophe. In particular, their policy paper, Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach appears to call on the national security sector ... <a title="Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/26/climate-crisis-bold-call-for-security-partners-to-prevent-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s former president, Gaston Flosse, and 12 others have been ordered to jointly repay millions of francs they misspent on so-called phantom jobs. In 2013, the group was found to have funded a vast network of supporters of Flosse’s Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party for almost a decade from the late 1990s. Tahiti-Infos ... <a title="Tahiti’s Flosse ordered to repay millions in ‘phantom jobs’ case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/tahitis-flosse-ordered-to-repay-millions-in-phantom-jobs-case/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Flosse ordered to repay millions in ‘phantom jobs’ case">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
By Rosalie Nongebatu in Suva Three journalism students from The University of the South Pacific in Suva have been selected to participate in a week-long environmental reporting project in the Solomon Islands. After a stringent selection process, students Rosalie Nongebatu, Romeka Kumari and Ben Bilua were chosen to be part of the project titled, “Adapting ... <a title="USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/usp-journo-students-head-to-solomons-for-environmental-reporting-project/" aria-label="Read more about USP journo students head to Solomons for environmental reporting project">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Tongan journalist, publisher and broadcaster Kalafi Moala talks to Pacific Media Watch project’s Sri Krishnamurthi. Video: Sri Krishnamurthi/Blessen Tom By Sri Krishnamurthi After 30 years as chief editor and publisher of Tonga’s flagship Taimi ‘o Tonga newspaper, the iconic Pacific media personality Kalafi Moala has sold his business and is looking to move on. He ... <a title="Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/iconic-tongan-publisher-kalafi-moala-eyes-new-digital-media-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Iconic Tongan publisher Kalafi Moala eyes new digital media challenge">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
By Peni Komaisavai in Suva Staff of the University of the South Pacific at the university’s main Laucala campus in Suva have called for pro-chancellor Winston Thompson to step aside to allow for an independent investigation into alleged abuse and mismanagement to proceed. This was one of three demands USP staff made in a petition ... <a title="USP staff want Fiji’s pro-chancellor Thompson to step aside in abuse probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/usp-staff-want-fijis-pro-chancellor-thompson-to-step-aside-in-abuse-probe/" aria-label="Read more about USP staff want Fiji’s pro-chancellor Thompson to step aside in abuse probe">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Cook Islands censor has backtracked on its initial decision to ban Rocketman. Instead, the Cook Islands Internal Affairs has followed the New Zealand censor’s classification and rated the film R18, reports Cook Islands News. The censor announced the ban last week, after Samoa banned screenings of the film due to ... <a title="Cook Islands backtracks on Rocketman ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/cook-islands-backtracks-on-rocketman-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands backtracks on Rocketman ban">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Doused in black warpaint, draped in ammunition and clutching guns almost as big as some of them, the boys stare with hardened gazes into the camera. The photo, taken somewhere in Papua’s remote hills, is like countless others released by the West Papua Liberation Army, a rebel group waging war on the ... <a title="West Papua child soldiers in ‘cycle of violence’ with Indonesia military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/west-papua-child-soldiers-in-cycle-of-violence-with-indonesia-military/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua child soldiers in ‘cycle of violence’ with Indonesia military">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2019
By David Robie in Bangkok A leading cyber security expert has called on universities to play a more active role in implementing ethics and legal frameworks for communications smart technology to save society from an Orwellian future. Mohamed El-Guindy, an Egyptian consultant to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC-ROMENA), says communication research programmes ... <a title="Bring ethics into global smart tech, warns UN cyber expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/22/bring-ethics-into-global-smart-tech-warns-un-cyber-expert/" aria-label="Read more about Bring ethics into global smart tech, warns UN cyber expert">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Rosa Koian We all want change and we want that change to happen quickly. Many of us feel deprived of certain opportunities and privileges and therefore miss or forget that we are rich already. As a country we didn’t have to struggle to become an independent democratic nation. READ MORE: Scott Waide’s message ... <a title="Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/20/rosa-koian-png-is-rich-already-we-just-need-to-care-more/" aria-label="Read more about Rosa Koian: PNG is rich already, we just need to care more">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has used social media to arrest a man accused of sexually abusing his granddaughter. Kramer wrote a Facebook post in which he described being notified of a post about a young girl being sexually abused. “On Sunday I received a notification on Facebook that ... <a title="PNG police minister uses social media to arrest alleged sex offender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/20/png-police-minister-uses-social-media-to-arrest-alleged-sex-offender/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police minister uses social media to arrest alleged sex offender">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2019
By RNZ Pacific One of Vanuatu’s leading journalists has said the right to information law has contributed to an air of openness in the country. The Right to Information Act was passed two years ago and will be extended to cover all government departments from August. Over the coming months all departments and agencies will ... <a title="Vanuatu government more open under information law, says journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/20/vanuatu-government-more-open-under-information-law-says-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu government more open under information law, says journalist">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Clinging to to the top of a swaying coconut tree, Vanuatu journalist Edgar Howard carefully plucks out his phone from his pocket. He’s clambered up there looking for a strong enough signal, so he can file his report to VBTC, the country’s public broadcaster in the capital, Port Vila. That’s the way ... <a title="Remote Vanuatu journo goes above and beyond to tell stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/18/remote-vanuatu-journo-goes-above-and-beyond-to-tell-stories/" aria-label="Read more about Remote Vanuatu journo goes above and beyond to tell stories">Read more</a>
