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November 28, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has announced that he is filing a notice of a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare after three days of rioting has rocked the capital Honiara. Wale said today he still did not have enough numbers for such a motion ... <a title="Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’ PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/28/solomon-islands-riots-wale-calls-for-no-confidence-vote-in-hiding-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’ PM">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2021
RNZ Pacific Police in Honiara have confirmed that three bodies have been found in one of the burnt out buildings in Chinatown after the rioting in the Solomon Islands. A protest on Wednesday calling for the Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to step down lapsed into major unrest and three days of rioting. A police ... <a title="Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/28/solomon-islands-bodies-discovered-in-burnt-out-chinatown-building/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands: Bodies discovered in burnt out Chinatown building">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Governor General of Solomon Islands has declared a nightly curfew in the troubled capital Honiara, after a third day of looting and destruction. Sir David Vunagi said the curfew, which started last night, will go from 7pm to 6am and be repeated every day until it is revoked. Sir David said it ... <a title="Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/27/solomon-islands-riots-night-time-curfew-imposed-in-capital/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands riots: Night-time curfew imposed in capital">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garry Cook, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO The Black Summer forest fires of 2019–2020 burned more than 24 million hectares, directly causing 33 deaths and almost 450 more from smoke inhalation. But were these fires unprecedented? You might remember sceptics questioning the idea that the Black Summer fires really ... <a title="Australia’s Black Summer of fire was not normal – and we can prove it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/australias-black-summer-of-fire-was-not-normal-and-we-can-prove-it-172506/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Black Summer of fire was not normal – and we can prove it">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Spain copped Covid early; as early as Italy, presumably, like Italy, directly from Wuhan, China. While the main spread of Covid19 in Europe was via the Italian and Austrian alps, the early spread of covid to the United Kingdom may have been largely from Spain. The first chart shows that for ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Spain as a country of interest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-spain-as-a-country-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Spain as a country of interest">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report Keynote speakers professor David Robie and Glenda Gloria, executive editor of Rappler, addressed “truth and justice” on the opening day of the Asian Media Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) conference in Auckland. Dr Robie opened the conference yesterday with his topic “Journalism education ‘truth ’ challenges in an ... <a title="‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/no-stranger-to-media-freedom-threats-but-hope-at-communication-forum/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No stranger to media freedom threats’, but hope at communication forum">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
RNZ Pacific Police in Solomon Islands were overrun as rioters and looters tore through the capital Honiara. RNZ Pacific correspondent in Honiara, Elizabeth Osifelo, said exhausted police were overwhelmed as more people swarmed into town in defiance of a 36-hour lockdown. Shops in Chinatown which had survived the earlier unrest were ransacked and burned. On ... <a title="Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/solomons-police-overrun-australia-deploys-support-personnel/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two Asia-Pacific media commentators. “Without journalists who will tell it like it is no matter the consequences, the future will continue to be one of alternate facts and manipulated opinions,” Rappler ... <a title="Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/media-advocates-tell-of-struggle-for-survival-and-truth-at-asia-pacific-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific forum">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gail Iles, Senior Lecturer in Physics, RMIT University Shutterstock A NASA spacecraft the size of a golf cart has been directed to smash into an asteroid, with the intention of knocking it slightly off course. The test aims to demonstrate our technological readiness in case an actual ... <a title="Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/could-we-really-deflect-an-asteroid-heading-for-earth-an-expert-explains-nasas-latest-dart-mission-172603/" aria-label="Read more about Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth? An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. This week they review the dramatic start to the final parliamentary fortnight of the year. Scott Morrison has faced revolts ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a crazy week in Canberra" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/video-michelle-grattan-on-a-crazy-week-in-canberra-172679/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a crazy week in Canberra">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacques Raubenheimer, Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics, University of Sydney Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP Social media posts commenting on data from the UK, Israel and South Africa, among others, claim deaths from COVID (or all deaths) are now higher in vaccinated than unvaccinated citizens. Others make the more ... <a title="COVID death data can be shared to make it look like vaccines don’t work, or worse – but that’s not the whole picture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/covid-death-data-can-be-shared-to-make-it-look-like-vaccines-dont-work-or-worse-but-thats-not-the-whole-picture-172411/" aria-label="Read more about COVID death data can be shared to make it look like vaccines don’t work, or worse – but that’s not the whole picture">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University AP/AAP On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia would deploy police, diplomats and defence force personnel to Solomon Islands “to provide assistance” following serious unrest in the capital, Honiara. As the initial deployment start ... <a title="As Australia deploys troops and police, what now for Solomon Islands?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/26/as-australia-deploys-troops-and-police-what-now-for-solomon-islands-172678/" aria-label="Read more about As Australia deploys troops and police, what now for Solomon Islands?">Read more</a>
