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New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities

April 20, 2022

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital journalist Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have added a focus on climate and sustainability to the enhanced relationship between the two countries. Speaking after bilateral talks in Singapore, the pair jointly announced a fifth pillar would be added to the agreement on the ... <a title="New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/20/new-zealand-and-singapore-add-climate-to-partnership-priorities/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities">Read more</a>

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Papuan students form umbrella body, reaffirm campaign for education rights

February 6, 2022

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk An umbrella organisation representing Papuan students worldwide has been formed with a renewed commitment to strengthening their efforts to gain “quality education”. Five country groups affiliated to the International Alliance of Papuan Students Associations Overseas (IAPSAO) met virtually yesterday to make a united stance on Papuan education, affirming their appeal last ... <a title="Papuan students form umbrella body, reaffirm campaign for education rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/06/papuan-students-form-umbrella-body-reaffirm-campaign-for-education-rights/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan students form umbrella body, reaffirm campaign for education rights">Read more</a>

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Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’

November 4, 2021

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia is accused of using “diplomatic strong-arm tactics” to water down outcomes in Pacific climate negotiations and “buy silence” on climate change, a new report has revealed. Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s report, Australia: Pacific Bully and International Outcast, reveals that the Australian government uses “bullying tactics” in regional negotiations on climate change, ... <a title="Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/australia-accused-of-bullying-pacific-over-climate-action-buying-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’">Read more</a>

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Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?

January 11, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However, our recent study of academics in Australia and Japan suggests Australian universities are still very much focused on supporting the production of scholarly outputs. They offer relatively limited support for ... <a title="Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/unis-want-research-shared-widely-so-why-dont-they-properly-back-academics-to-do-it/" aria-label="Read more about Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?">Read more</a>

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NZ traveller who arrives in Japan with covid-19 visited Rotorua and Taupō

August 15, 2020

By RNZ News A person who arrived in Japan from New Zealand with covid-19 visited Wairakei Terraces and Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland in Rotorua and Taupō shortly before their departure, health authorities have revealed. As a precaution, Toi Te Ora Public Health have alerted the public there was a “small possibility” they may have been exposed ... <a title="NZ traveller who arrives in Japan with covid-19 visited Rotorua and Taupō" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/nz-traveller-who-arrives-in-japan-with-covid-19-visited-rotorua-and-taupo/" aria-label="Read more about NZ traveller who arrives in Japan with covid-19 visited Rotorua and Taupō">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Japan

May 25, 2020

Analysis by Keith Rankin. Surpluses and Deficits of Different Economic Sectors This new series of weekly charts looks at forty years of surpluses and deficits in different countries, showing what makes these countries tick, and why they were where they were – financially speaking – at the end of the 2010s. (We may note, for ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Japan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/25/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-financial-signatures-japan/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Financial Signatures: Japan">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis: Financial Signatures of Four Countries

October 30, 2019

Chart Analysis by Keith Rankin. Most countries’ economies have financial signatures that reflect their cultures and histories. We may, in a binary sense, call these surplus and deficit signatures. But there are a number of important nuances. For these four developed countries, Germany and Japan would be classed as having ‘surplus’ economies, while New Zealand ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis: Financial Signatures of Four Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/30/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-financial-signatures-of-four-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis: Financial Signatures of Four Countries">Read more</a>

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Gallery: A peaceful day remembering the horrendous fate of Nagasaki

August 11, 2019

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk This week marks the 74th anniversary of the United States atomic bombings of Japan, bringing with it the annual renewed debate over the morality of the decision to force the country’s unconditional surrender by unleashing the Allies’ terrible new weapon on two heavily populated cities that were critical to the Japanese ... <a title="Gallery: A peaceful day remembering the horrendous fate of Nagasaki" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/11/gallery-a-peaceful-day-remembering-the-horrendous-fate-of-nagasaki/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: A peaceful day remembering the horrendous fate of Nagasaki">Read more</a>