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January 25, 2025
By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago — on 24 January 1990, the same day the Auckland Commonwealth Games opened. Its news bulletins and programmes were carried by a brand new 100kW transmitter. The service was rebranded as RNZ Pacific in 2017. However its ... <a title="RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/rnz-pacific-35-years-of-broadcasting-trusted-news-to-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by the Israeli occupation to “block media coverage” of the military attack on Jenin. Israeli soldiers have killed at least 12 Palestinians in the three-day military assault that has rendered the ... <a title="Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/al-jazeera-says-correspondents-arrest-latest-bid-to-gag-jenin-coverage/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel People get readyThere’s a train a-comingYou don’t need no baggageYou just get on boardAll you need is faithTo hear the diesels hummingDon’t need no ticketYou just thank the Lord Songwriter: Curtis Mayfield You might have seen Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s speech at the National Prayer Service in the United States following ... <a title="Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/standing-for-decency-the-sermon-the-president-didnt-want-to-hear/" aria-label="Read more about Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current New Zealand’s One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western media for its complicity in genocide. For some 15 months, the Western media have framed Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza as a “legitimate” war. Pretending to provide an objective and ... <a title="Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/gaza-and-the-western-media-complicit-in-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle A litmus test of Israel’s commitment to abandon genocide and start down the road towards lasting peace is whether they choose to release the most important of all the hostages, Marwan Barghouti. During the past 22 years in Israeli prisons he has been beaten, tortured, sexually molested and had limbs broken. ... <a title="Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/marwan-barghouti-the-worlds-most-important-hostage-must-be-freed/" aria-label="Read more about Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2025
Al Jazeera journalist Fadi al-Wahidi, who was gravely injured on 9 October 2024 while reporting from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is fighting for his life as the Israeli authorities continued to refuse his transfer to a hospital abroad, despite repeated calls from RSF. Also, two Palestinian photojournalists, Haytham Abdel Wahed and Nidal ... <a title="Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-rsf-calls-for-open-borders-for-journalists-end-to-impunity-for-israels-war-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 200 demonstrators gathered in the heart of New Zealand’s biggest city Auckland today to welcome the Gaza ceasefire due to come into force tomorrow, but warned they would continue to protest until justice is served with an independent and free Palestinan state. Jubilant scenes of dancing and Palestinian folk music rang ... <a title="Gaza genocide protesters welcome ceasefire but will fight on for justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/19/gaza-genocide-protesters-welcome-ceasefire-but-will-fight-on-for-justice/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza genocide protesters welcome ceasefire but will fight on for justice">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Four researchers and authors from the Asia-Pacific region have provided diverse perspectives on the media in a new global book on intercultural communication. The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication published this week offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world. ... <a title="Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/17/pacific-media-perspectives-featured-by-authors-in-new-communication-book/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific media perspectives featured by authors in new communication book">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2025
By Daniel Perese of Te Ao Māori News Māori politicians across the political spectrum in Aotearoa New Zealand have called for immediate aid to enter Gaza following a temporary ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. The ceasefire, agreed yesterday, comes into effect on Sunday, January 19. Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand welcomed the ... <a title="Māori politicians call for ‘rapid’ aid to Gaza after ceasefire deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/17/maori-politicians-call-for-rapid-aid-to-gaza-after-ceasefire-deal/" aria-label="Read more about Māori politicians call for ‘rapid’ aid to Gaza after ceasefire deal">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities to allow foreign journalists into Gaza in the wake of the three-phase ceasefire agreement set to to begin on Sunday. The New York-based global media watchdog urged the international community “to independently investigate the deliberate targeting of journalists ... <a title="Global watchdog calls for ‘open’ probe into crimes against Gaza media as ceasefire agreed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/16/global-watchdog-calls-for-open-probe-into-crimes-against-gaza-media-as-ceasefire-agreed/" aria-label="Read more about Global watchdog calls for ‘open’ probe into crimes against Gaza media as ceasefire agreed">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2025
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s assault on the besieged strip continues despite ongoing talks over a possible ceasefire. Palestinian authorities say 5000 people are missing or have been killed in this first 100 days of Israel’s ... <a title="‘Journalism is not a crime’: Gaza reporter slams international press as journalist death toll rises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/15/journalism-is-not-a-crime-gaza-reporter-slams-international-press-as-journalist-death-toll-rises/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Journalism is not a crime’: Gaza reporter slams international press as journalist death toll rises">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2025
While mediator Qatar says a Gaza ceasefire deal is at the closest point it has been in the past few months — adding that many of the obstacles in the negotiations have been ironed out — a special report for Drop Site News reveals the escalation in attacks on Palestinians in Jenin in the occupied ... <a title="‘Humiliated, attacked, beaten’: How Palestinian Authority assaults West Bank refugee camp resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/15/humiliated-attacked-beaten-how-palestinian-authority-assaults-west-bank-refugee-camp-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Humiliated, attacked, beaten’: How Palestinian Authority assaults West Bank refugee camp resistance">Read more</a>
