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February 2, 2023
By Wata Shaw in Suva Former Fijian Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum was paid $224,792 in bonuses during his term at FBC which began in 2008, the new board chair has claimed. He was due for a $30,000 bonus this year. FBC chair Ajai Bhai Amrit also revealed Sayed-Khaiyum, brother of former attorney-general Aiyaz ... <a title="Former FBC chief Riyaz paid almost $225k in bonuses, claims chair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/former-fbc-chief-riyaz-paid-almost-225k-in-bonuses-claims-chair/" aria-label="Read more about Former FBC chief Riyaz paid almost $225k in bonuses, claims chair">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Senior research fellow, Deakin University Muhammad Sajjad/AP Earlier this week, a suicide blast ruptured the relative calm that had returned to Pakistan in recent years. The attack at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed more than 100 people and stunned many ... <a title="Is terrorism returning to Pakistan?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/is-terrorism-returning-to-pakistan-198995/" aria-label="Read more about Is terrorism returning to Pakistan?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eric Nordberg, Senior Lecturer (Applied Ecology and Landscape Management), University of New England Shutterstock Australia’s renewable energy transition has prompted the construction of dozens of large-scale solar farms. The boom helps reduce Australia’s reliance on fossil fuels, but requires large areas of land to be converted to ... <a title="Win-win: how solar farms can double as havens for our wildlife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/win-win-how-solar-farms-can-double-as-havens-for-our-wildlife-194920/" aria-label="Read more about Win-win: how solar farms can double as havens for our wildlife">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Monash University Stephen Buckle/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC If you’ve ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetising looks. In our latest study we show that animals – in this case, bees – ... <a title="This strange donkey orchid uses UV light to trick bees into thinking it has food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/this-strange-donkey-orchid-uses-uv-light-to-trick-bees-into-thinking-it-has-food-198980/" aria-label="Read more about This strange donkey orchid uses UV light to trick bees into thinking it has food">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Helps, Research fellow, Monash University Shutterstock Identifying perpetrators of domestic and family violence is critical to ending violence against women. Practitioners across different sectors, including mental health, alcohol and drug services, have a vital opportunity to “screen” clients to identify if they’ve experienced or perpetrated domestic ... <a title="We’re missing opportunities to identify domestic violence perpetrators. This is what needs to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/were-missing-opportunities-to-identify-domestic-violence-perpetrators-this-is-what-needs-to-change-198071/" aria-label="Read more about We’re missing opportunities to identify domestic violence perpetrators. This is what needs to change">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University As we enter the fourth year of living with COVID, we are all asking the predictable question: when will the pandemic be over? To answer this question, it’s worth reminding ourselves that a pandemic involves the worldwide spread of a ... <a title="COVID remains a global emergency, the World Health Organization says, but we’re at a transition point. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/covid-remains-a-global-emergency-the-world-health-organization-says-but-were-at-a-transition-point-what-does-this-mean-198876/" aria-label="Read more about COVID remains a global emergency, the World Health Organization says, but we’re at a transition point. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland Getty Images The January 27 storm that hit Auckland broke all previous rainfall records and has caused widespread damage, mostly from flooding and landslides. But while climate change helps explain the intensity of the rainfall, the way ... <a title="Slippery slopes: why the Auckland storm caused so many landslides – and what can be done about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/slippery-slopes-why-the-auckland-storm-caused-so-many-landslides-and-what-can-be-done-about-it-198984/" aria-label="Read more about Slippery slopes: why the Auckland storm caused so many landslides – and what can be done about it">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pii-Tuulia Nikula, Principal Academic, Eastern Institute of Technology GettyImages An increasing number of businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand are changing how they operate to reduce their overall climate impact. These measures, which include reducing carbon emissions, are largely voluntary outside of specific sectors, such as the fuel, ... <a title="Business owners see cutting carbon emissions as ‘the right thing to do’, despite the challenges of making change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/business-owners-see-cutting-carbon-emissions-as-the-right-thing-to-do-despite-the-challenges-of-making-change-197675/" aria-label="Read more about Business owners see cutting carbon emissions as ‘the right thing to do’, despite the challenges of making change">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Birger Rasmussen, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia Saul Shepstein, Author provided The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to one of the most ancient surviving pieces of Earth’s crust, which has been geologically unchanged since its creation some 3.5 billion years ago. Some of ... <a title="The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/the-worlds-oldest-fossils-or-oily-gunk-new-research-suggests-these-3-5-billion-year-old-rocks-dont-contain-signs-of-life-198865/" aria-label="Read more about The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Dickie, PhD Candidate in Public Health Nutrition, Deakin University Shutterstock For years, the term “junk food” has been used to refer to foods considered bad for you, and not very nutritious. But junk can mean different things to different people. Official dietary guidelines have used more ... <a title="8 everyday foods you might not realise are ultra processed – and how to spot them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/8-everyday-foods-you-might-not-realise-are-ultra-processed-and-how-to-spot-them-197993/" aria-label="Read more about 8 everyday foods you might not realise are ultra processed – and how to spot them">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Daniel, Tutor / Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Western Sydney University Columbia Pictures “What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” So asks time-stranded weatherman Phil Connors, played by ... <a title="The pleasure and pain of cinephilia: what happened when I watched Groundhog Day every day for a year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/02/the-pleasure-and-pain-of-cinephilia-what-happened-when-i-watched-groundhog-day-every-day-for-a-year-198668/" aria-label="Read more about The pleasure and pain of cinephilia: what happened when I watched Groundhog Day every day for a year">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2023
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva New Zealand-based Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva says that if the coalition government is strong, resilient and lasts, “this will reflect well as a future model for coalitions in Fiji”. “It’s a learning process for a new government and a new democracy and we expect teething problems in the beginning ... <a title="Future of Fiji’s democracy at stake over coalition, warns Ratuva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/01/future-of-fijis-democracy-at-stake-over-coalition-warns-ratuva/" aria-label="Read more about Future of Fiji’s democracy at stake over coalition, warns Ratuva">Read more</a>
