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October 20, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Asmat regency in Papua has decided to limit access to and from the area for 28 days, starting last Sunday, after eight people in the regency’s capital Agats tested positive for covid-19 on Saturday, reports The Jakarta Post. Acting Asmat regent Triwarno Purnomo said the administration would only allow ships carrying ... <a title="Papua’s Asmat shut off following eight confirmed covid-19 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/papuas-asmat-shut-off-following-eight-confirmed-covid-19-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Papua’s Asmat shut off following eight confirmed covid-19 cases">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2020
By Grubsheet Feejee publisher Graham Davis Reports are emerging of a serious diplomatic incident in Suva 10 days ago in which two Chinese diplomats from the Suva embassy assaulted a member of the Taiwanese delegation in Fiji. The incident allegedly took place on the evening of Thursday, October 8, on the fringes of a reception ... <a title="Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/19/chinese-diplomatic-gatecrash-incident-alleged-at-taiwan-event-in-suva/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2020
By RNZ News The Director-General of Health says a ship now bound for Brisbane is believed to be the most likely source of transmission in the latest covid-19 case in New Zealand. A marine electronics engineer tested positive for covid-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday. The man had been working on several ships in ... <a title="Ship bound for Brisbane ‘most likely source’ of new NZ covid transmission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/19/ship-bound-for-brisbane-most-likely-source-of-new-nz-covid-transmission/" aria-label="Read more about Ship bound for Brisbane ‘most likely source’ of new NZ covid transmission">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2020
By RNZ News Seventeen passengers from New Zealand who travelled to Sydney under the trans-Tasman bubble arrangements have been caught entering Melbourne, reports the ABC. The ABC understands the passengers flew to Sydney and got a connecting to flight to Melbourne. Melbourne is currently not accepting international travellers. Initially it was reported that 14 passengers ... <a title="17 travellers from NZ caught entering Melbourne in travel ‘bubble breach’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/17/17-travellers-from-nz-caught-entering-melbourne-in-travel-bubble-breach/" aria-label="Read more about 17 travellers from NZ caught entering Melbourne in travel ‘bubble breach’">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2020
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s former president Gaston Flosse has tested positive for covid-19, prompting a deferral of today’s appeal court hearing. Flosse and the current President Edouard Fritch, who is also covid-19 positive, appealed against last year’s joint conviction for abusing public funds. Fritch had been fined US$50,000 while Flosse had been given a ... <a title="French Polynesia’s ex-president Flosse tests positive for covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/17/french-polynesias-ex-president-flosse-tests-positive-for-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia’s ex-president Flosse tests positive for covid-19">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern today spoke on national radio about why she should continue as prime minister on the last day of campaigning before the general election tomorrow. She told RNZ’s Morning Report today she had proved she can work with three parties, so she can work with two ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern on why Labour should form NZ’s next government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/jacinda-ardern-on-why-labour-should-form-nzs-next-government/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern on why Labour should form NZ’s next government">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2020
ANALYSIS: By John Minto Tēna koutou tēna koutou, tēna tātau katoa The topic of this talk is about the lies told about Palestine by the pro-Israeli lobby. That might sound a bit downbeat and negative but I can assure you it is not. I hope tonight you will go away feeling positive, clear headed and ... <a title="John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/11/john-minto-the-truth-behind-the-lies-being-told-about-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Geoffrey Ford, University of Canterbury; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury, and Kevin Watson, University of Canterbury When New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins recently quipped that the Green Party is “to some extent the conscience of the Labour Party” he was not simply referring to polls suggesting Labour may need the Greens’ support ... <a title="How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/how-the-greens-have-changed-the-nz-language-of-economic-debate/" aria-label="Read more about How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Aucklanders are being warned not to be caught napping again when it comes to the covid-19 pandemic. New Zealand’s largest city is preparing to join the rest of the country in alert level 1 from Thursday. But some experts are worried the government has kept no extra precautions ... <a title="Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/aucklanders-warned-not-to-fall-into-a-slumber-again-over-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid">Read more</a>
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September 28, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s opposition has called on the government to explain the paralysing martial law type restrictions that has crippled the economy and will take years to return to normal, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Opposition Leader Belden Namah said blaming covid-19 was not good enough and has called for an immediate ... <a title="PNG opposition’s Namah calls for end to ‘martial law-like’ restrictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/28/png-oppositions-namah-calls-for-end-to-martial-law-like-restrictions/" aria-label="Read more about PNG opposition’s Namah calls for end to ‘martial law-like’ restrictions">Read more</a>
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September 28, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia has reached Tahiti’s prison and infected 20 people. The French High Commission said that after two cases were detected among corrections staff, tests had revealed an initial tally of 13. A second round of testing then found another four cases among staff and three among the ... <a title="Tahiti’s Nuutania prison detects covid-19 outbreak with 20 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/28/tahitis-nuutania-prison-detects-covid-19-outbreak-with-20-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Nuutania prison detects covid-19 outbreak with 20 cases">Read more</a>
