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April 25, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network today condemned the Fiji government’s failure to stand up for international law and justice over the Israeli war on Gaza in their weekly Black Thursday protest. “For the past 18 months, we have made repeated requests to our government to do the bare minimum and enforce ... <a title="Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/25/open-letter-to-fijians-why-is-our-country-supporting-israels-heinous-crimes-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2025
RNZ Pacific Despite calls from women’s groups urging the government to implement policies to address the underrepresentation of women in politics, the introduction of temporary special measures (TSM) to increase women’s political representation in Fiji remains a distant goal. This week, leader of the Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa), Cabinet Minister Aseri Radrodro, and opposition ... <a title="Why special measures to boost Fiji women’s political representation remain a distant goal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/24/why-special-measures-to-boost-fiji-womens-political-representation-remain-a-distant-goal/" aria-label="Read more about Why special measures to boost Fiji women’s political representation remain a distant goal">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in Widakuswara v Lake, affirming the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was unlawfully shuttered by the Trump administration, Acting Director Victor Morales and Special Adviser Kari Lake. The decision enshrines that USAGM must fulfill its legally required ... <a title="Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/23/victory-for-us-press-freedom-and-workers-court-grants-injunction-in-voa-media-case/" aria-label="Read more about Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally for the 80th week since ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/palestinian-solidarity-vigil-at-easter-in-nz-as-israeli-bombing-rages-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. Its capital Phnom Penh was ... <a title="Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/did-australia-back-the-wrong-war-in-the-1960s-now-putins-russia-is-knocking-on-the-door/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2025
By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2025
By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last October — including whether the New Zealand warship was performing specific security for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The Manawanui grounded on the reef off the south coast of Upolu ... <a title="What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/what-was-hmnzs-manawanui-doing-before-it-sank-calls-for-greater-transparency/" aria-label="Read more about What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week “official travel overseas” to visit Fijian peacekeepers in the Middle East. Pio Tikoduadua’s supporters say he should “disregard critics” for his commitment to Fijian peacekeepers, which “highlights a profound dedication to duty and ... <a title="Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/17/fiji-defence-minister-draws-flak-for-six-week-trip-to-meet-peacekeepers/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand for international law and human rights by following the Maldives with a ban on visiting Israelis. Maher Nazzal, chair of the Palestine Forum of New Zealand, said in an open ... <a title="NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporary ban on visitors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/16/nzs-palestine-forum-calls-on-luxon-to-take-firm-stand-over-israeli-atrocities-with-temporary-ban-on-visitors/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporary ban on visitors">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2025
EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that is corrupt at its core. Trump’s advisor Elon Musk, who often seems to be the actual president, is handing his companies multiple contracts as his team takes over or takes ... <a title="Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/16/trumps-racist-corrupt-agenda-like-a-bank-robbery-in-broad-daylight/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former US President Barack Obama has taken to social media to praise Harvard’s decision to stand up for academic freedom by rebuffing the Trump administration’s demands. “Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions — rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make ... <a title="Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/15/obama-praises-harvard-for-setting-example-to-universities-resisting-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump">Read more</a>
