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June 15, 2024
The new secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Baron Waqa, is “well equipped” for the role, Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says. Waqa, a former Nauru president is the first Nauruan national to assume the top job at the Forum. He began his tenure last week and was welcomed during a special ceremony on Thursday ... <a title="Baron Waqa ‘more than able’ to lead Pacific Islands Forum, says Rabuka" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/baron-waqa-more-than-able-to-lead-pacific-islands-forum-says-rabuka/" aria-label="Read more about Baron Waqa ‘more than able’ to lead Pacific Islands Forum, says Rabuka">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with free or mostly free media after its government last year repealed a draconian law that threatened journalists with prison for doing their jobs. Fiji’s improvement in the annual Reporters Without ... <a title="Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/fijis-media-freedom-ranking-jumps-papua-new-guineas-plummets/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
Council members voted 21 to 4 in favour of Ahluwalia returning to the Laucala campus following a much-awaited meeting in Vanuatu this week. It comes as USP and its two unions — the Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) and the Administration and Support Staff Union (USPSU) — remain locked in ... <a title="USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/usp-council-votes-to-bring-controversial-vc-back-to-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2024
A Pasifika health leader says high obesity rates in the Pacific are not new, but an increase in childhood obesity is concerning. A study on worldwide trends in underweight and obesity, just published in The Lancet medical journal showed that the highest rates of obesity for women were in Tonga and American Samoa, and Nauru ... <a title="Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/04/food-industry-lack-of-exercise-key-to-childhood-obesity-says-sir-collin/" aria-label="Read more about Food industry, lack of exercise key to childhood obesity, says Sir Collin">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2024
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Marshall Islands officials quickly moved this week to reaffirm this nation’s ties with Taipei in the wake of Nauru shifting diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China. “The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) values the strong relationship with Republic of China (Taiwan) ... <a title="Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/19/marshall-islands-reaffirms-ties-with-taiwan-in-wake-of-nauru-shift/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands reaffirms ties with Taiwan in wake of Nauru shift">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
A security studies professor says China has been applying pressure to countries to switch diplomatic ties over from Taiwan, but Beijing says its “ready to work” with the Pacific island nation “to open new chapters” in the relations between the two countries. The Nauru government said that “in the best interests” of the country and ... <a title="China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says scholar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/china-has-whittled-down-key-taiwan-support-with-nauru-move-says-scholar/" aria-label="Read more about China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says scholar">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2023
Pacific island countries’ “relentless” efforts at the UN’s specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), has resulted in the adoption of a new emissions reductions strategy to ensure the Paris Agreement goal remains within reach. The IMO’s 80th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC80) was under pressure to deliver an outcome to reduce the global ... <a title="UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/un-shipping-agency-endorses-1-5-degrees-plan-after-relentless-pacific-lobbying/" aria-label="Read more about UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the freedom of a Nauru refugee, the man pleaded with authorities to release him. Hamid has been held in a hotel room and then the detention centre for months. “They want ... <a title="‘Mental torture’: Protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/mental-torture-protesters-seek-freedom-for-detained-iran-refugee/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mental torture’: Protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next year was a jaw-droppingly poor decision and an insult to everything the regional body is meant to represent. What were the Forum leaders thinking? Here’s the thing, they were probably ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/barbara-dreaver-pacific-leaders-poor-choice-for-top-forum-job-an-insult/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2023
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva The University of the South Pacific is expected to receive the first instalment of the promised $10 million part payment of owed grants soon. Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said this was a show of the coalition government’s commitment to restoring Fiji’s outstanding grant contributions since 2019. It is understood ... <a title="‘We were orphaned since you left,’ Rabuka says in apology to USP’s Pal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/18/we-were-orphaned-since-you-left-rabuka-says-in-apology-to-usps-pal/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We were orphaned since you left,’ Rabuka says in apology to USP’s Pal">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2023
By Geraldine Panapasa of Wansolwara in Suva The University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, was given a rousing welcome at Nadi International Airport today returning to Fiji from exile. He returned two years after he and wife Sandra Price were detained and deported by the former FijiFirst government for allegedly ... <a title="‘I’m just a catalyst for the bigger change’, says exiled USP vice-chancellor back in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/11/im-just-a-catalyst-for-the-bigger-change-says-exiled-usp-vice-chancellor-back-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m just a catalyst for the bigger change’, says exiled USP vice-chancellor back in Fiji">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A second group of refugees detained in offshore Australian detention camps have arrived in New Zealand. Four people touched down on a flight yesterday. “I’m happy for them that they can get their freedom,” a friend of the recent arrivals who is still detained on Nauru, Hamid, said. Their ... <a title="‘New Zealand, get me off this island,’ pleads 9-year Iran refugee on Nauru" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/21/new-zealand-get-me-off-this-island-pleads-9-year-iran-refugee-on-nauru/" aria-label="Read more about ‘New Zealand, get me off this island,’ pleads 9-year Iran refugee on Nauru">Read more</a>
