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March 7, 2019
President Moses Obed Tallis accepts customary gifts from the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs. Image: Royson Willie/Vanuatu Daily Post By Dan McGarry in Port Vila To pardon those convicted of betraying the public trust does a disservice to Vanuatu. It is disrespectful to the rule of law. It ignores the will of the people. It ... <a title="Daily Post: No pardons for Vanuatu politicians – no one is above the law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/daily-post-no-pardons-for-vanuatu-politicians-no-one-is-above-the-law/" aria-label="Read more about Daily Post: No pardons for Vanuatu politicians – no one is above the law">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
NASA representatives, including Dr Linus Digim’Rina, talking to journalists at the University of Papua New Guinea yesterday. Image: Alan Robson/PMC By Leiao Gerega in Port Moresby Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has sidelined the University of Papua New Guinea interim council but has retained interim chancellor Jeffery Kennedy. The decision yesterday appeased the disgruntled National Academic ... <a title="O’Neill sidelines UPNG interim council members, angry staff return to classes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/oneill-sidelines-upng-interim-council-members-angry-staff-return-to-classes/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill sidelines UPNG interim council members, angry staff return to classes">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Protesters march to the Papua governor’s office in Jayapura on Monday carrying a banner that reads ‘Dissolve and expel Jafar Umar Thalib and his group from Papua, because it is the land of the Gospel.’ Image: Benny Mawel/ucanews.com By Benny Mawel in Jayapura A radical Muslim cleric faces being kicked out of Papua after more ... <a title="Papuans call for expulsion of Ambon ‘jihadist army’ cleric over unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/papuans-call-for-expulsion-of-ambon-jihadist-army-cleric-over-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Papuans call for expulsion of Ambon ‘jihadist army’ cleric over unrest">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
The University of Papua New Guinea …. staff shutdown in protest over government interference in ‘credible VC appointment process’. Image: PNG Indy ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes The University of Papua New Guinea has for a long time been in need of far-reaching reform. But not all change is good, and what has happened this year ... <a title="UPNG shutdown crisis – the facts behind the turmoil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/upng-shutdown-crisis-the-facts-behind-the-turmoil/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG shutdown crisis – the facts behind the turmoil">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2019
Villagers welcome the WCC delegation in Kaliki village near Merauke in Papua province. Image: Jimmy Sormin/WCC A special mission from the World Council of Churches has criticised the ongoing human rights violations by Indonesian security forces in the West Papua region after its five-day visit to Indonesia last week and has called for “more openness” ... <a title="WCC mission criticises Papua rights violations in plea for ‘openness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/28/wcc-mission-criticises-papua-rights-violations-in-plea-for-openness/" aria-label="Read more about WCC mission criticises Papua rights violations in plea for ‘openness’">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
By Yamin Kogoya in Canberra In the days leading up to Christmas, 16 Indonesian construction workers were killed in Nduga by the West Papuan National Liberation Army. Lukas Enembe, Governor of Papua, declared through media: “I am asking President Jokowi to withdraw all the troops in Nduga.” In response, Colonel Muhammad Aidi, the military spokesman ... <a title="Enembe – the Papuan traditional chief Indonesia regards as ‘dangerous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/enembe-the-papuan-traditional-chief-indonesia-regards-as-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Enembe – the Papuan traditional chief Indonesia regards as ‘dangerous’">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2019
Spike Lee, who stormed out of the Oscars after Green Book won Best Picture at Sunday’s Oscars, likened the news to a “bad call” by the referee at a Knicks game. Video: Variety By Stuart Richards in Adelaide Every year it is the same story: the Academy comes so close to catching up with the ... <a title="#Oscars2019 play it safe with Green Book – nothing progressive here" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/26/oscars2019-play-it-safe-with-green-book-nothing-progressive-here/" aria-label="Read more about #Oscars2019 play it safe with Green Book – nothing progressive here">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2019
Papuan students among the elections protest marchers in Ambon, Indonesia. Image: Chen Toisuta/Gatra By Chen Toisuta in Ambon, Maluku Scores of students from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have called on the public to boycott or spoil votes in the legislative and presidential elections next month. ... <a title="Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/25/students-call-for-indonesian-election-boycott-alternative-political-force/" aria-label="Read more about Students call for Indonesian election boycott, alternative political force">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2019
The python used to interrogate a Papuan suspect “was a pet snake that was not poisonous and tame”, claim Indonesian police. Image: CNNIndonesia Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua Regional Police public information head Assistant Superintendent Suryadi Diaz is asking all parties not to dramatise or make a big issue out of the use of a ... <a title="‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua snake investigation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/23/not-a-big-deal-claim-police-rejecting-un-call-for-papua-snake-investigation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua snake investigation">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2019
Indonesian police torture a pro-independence West Papuan suspect. Image: West Papua Campaign/AFP Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Free West Papua Campaign has welcomed the call by the United Nation’s human rights experts for “Prompt and impartial investigations … into numerous cases of alleged killings, unlawful arrests, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of indigenous Papuans ... <a title="West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/22/west-papuan-campaigners-welcome-un-call-to-halt-indonesian-torture/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan campaigners welcome UN call to halt Indonesian torture">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2019
Authors of the current IPCC reporting cycle in Fiji – Dr Helene Jacot Des Combe (from left), Dr Morgan Wairiu, Professor Elisabeth Holland and Diana Salili. Image: USP/Wansolwara By Jope Tarai in Suva The threat of rising global temperatures on Pacific ecosystems is not only a scientific analysis but a reality for many people in ... <a title="World must take moral climate stand for humanity, warns Pacific expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/22/world-must-take-moral-climate-stand-for-humanity-warns-pacific-expert/" aria-label="Read more about World must take moral climate stand for humanity, warns Pacific expert">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2019
A scene from the break-in at parliament in Waigani, Port Moresby, last November. Image: Bryan Kramer/Kramer Report By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner says investigations are ongoing into officers who took part in a rampage through Parliament last year. Last November, dozens of police and corrections officers went on the rampage over their ... <a title="PNG probe into parliament rampage still ongoing, says police chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/21/png-probe-into-parliament-rampage-still-ongoing-says-police-chief/" aria-label="Read more about PNG probe into parliament rampage still ongoing, says police chief">Read more</a>
