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May 30, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw, Massey University When New Zealand’s opposition National Party’s transport spokesperson, Simeon Brown, questioned the logic of bilingual traffic signs, he seemed to echo his leader Christopher Luxon’s earlier misgivings about the now prevalent use of te reo Māori in government departments. Genuine concern or political signalling in an election year? After ... <a title="Slow down Simeon Brown – NZ bilingual traffic signs aren’t an accident waiting to happen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/slow-down-simeon-brown-nz-bilingual-traffic-signs-arent-an-accident-waiting-to-happen/" aria-label="Read more about Slow down Simeon Brown – NZ bilingual traffic signs aren’t an accident waiting to happen">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2023
By concerned citizens of the Pacific The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, and the Indian government’s National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, in March for the setting up of a Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Research Institute (SCORI) has ... <a title="Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea of Islands’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/background-to-scori-is-this-a-sell-out-of-pacifics-sea-of-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea of Islands’?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a “neutral intermediary” to negotiate between the Indonesian government and the West Papuan rebels holding a New Zealand pilot hostage for his release. He has called in a statement today for the safe ... <a title="OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/28/opm-call-for-pngs-james-marape-as-negotiator-for-nz-pilots-safe-passage/" aria-label="Read more about OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage pilot, Philip Mehrtens, held by Papuan liberation fighters and appealed to them to “keep Philip safe”. Jim Aubrey, a human rights activist who has campaigned globally on freedom struggles in ... <a title="Author-poet condemns rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/27/author-poet-condemns-rebel-threat-to-shoot-nz-hostage-pilot-if-denied-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Author-poet condemns rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid a dispute over the validity of the referendum process under the Noumea Accord, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told the United Nations last week that self-determination might take “one ... <a title="Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/caledonian-union-dismisses-two-generations-to-self-determination-comment-as-an-insult/" aria-label="Read more about Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing the “sham” vote in 1969 and the worsening human rights violations in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation began its 2023 Pacific Regional Seminar in Bali, ... <a title="Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/protesters-call-for-west-papua-to-be-included-on-un-decolonisation-list/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2023
Pacific Media Watch More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing support for detained Apple Daily founder and publisher Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. They have called for his immediate release. Among the signatories are publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from ... <a title="‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 116 global media leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/22/free-jimmy-lai-now-plea-by-rsf-and-116-global-media-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Free Jimmy Lai now’ plea by RSF and 116 global media leaders">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific leaders are starting to trickle into Papua New Guinea for two high level meetings and a number of side talks. The leaders are set to meet with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a high-level US delegation in Port Moresby tomorrow. PNG Prime Minister James Marape told local ... <a title="Pacific leaders arrive in Port Moresby ahead of Modi and Blinken PNG visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/22/pacific-leaders-arrive-in-port-moresby-ahead-of-modi-and-blinken-png-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders arrive in Port Moresby ahead of Modi and Blinken PNG visit">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding on 65 members of Parliament to represent them. Each election is a reminder of the successful regional and international cooperation that led to Timor-Leste’s independence. It is also a reminder ... <a title="Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/22/timor-leste-is-at-the-polls-heres-how-australia-can-support-its-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Allegations of sexual harassment have emerged in the case of a senior United Nations manager at the Fiji multi-county office who has been put on “administrative leave” after complaints of “unsatisfactory behaviour”. On Thursday, the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office to Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, ... <a title="Top UN Pacific official told to leave Fiji amid ‘harassment’ allegations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/20/top-un-pacific-official-told-to-leave-fiji-amid-harassment-allegations/" aria-label="Read more about Top UN Pacific official told to leave Fiji amid ‘harassment’ allegations">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2023
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby United States President Joe Biden yesterday apologised to Prime Minister James Marape and the people of Papua New Guinea for abandoning his planned trip to Port Moresby, and instead is sending Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Details of Blinken’s travel to PNG are still being finalised ... <a title="Biden apologises to PNG, Blinken being sent for Pacific dialogue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/19/biden-apologises-to-png-blinken-being-sent-for-pacific-dialogue/" aria-label="Read more about Biden apologises to PNG, Blinken being sent for Pacific dialogue">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation Agreement despite the cancellation of US President Joe Biden’s visit, and the leaking of a draft copy of the confidential document on Tuesday. He said PNG’s national interest was at ... <a title="PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/pngs-marape-confident-of-pulling-off-png-us-defence-pact-in-spite-of-leak/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak">Read more</a>
