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January 29, 2020
By Andrio Adiwibowo in Jakarta After beating the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemics in the past, we may think we will win the battle against the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). But this optimism is turning into pessimism. First, several developed countries known to have the best infection control ... <a title="Why we may have lost battle against China’s coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/29/why-we-may-have-lost-battle-against-chinas-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Why we may have lost battle against China’s coronavirus">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Arnold Belau, Ligia Giay, Febriana Firdaus and Belinda Lopez of Voice of Papua Everything about what happened in the Papuan provincial regency of Nduga just over a year ago is still a blur and closed off. It remains an elephant in the room, just like another mass killing case in West Papua ... <a title="West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/west-papua-sad-plight-of-the-nduga-internally-displaced-children/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua: Sad plight of the Nduga internally displaced children">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2019
OPINION: Moale James What should we expect for the future of media freedom in the Pacific? And how do we sift through the “bullshit” as emerging journalists? These were two of the many questions raised at the pre-conference keynote for the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum at Griffith University, Brisbane. Attending on the night where various ... <a title="Moale James: Citizen journalism countering ‘deliberate’ media silence on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/04/moale-james-citizen-journalism-countering-deliberate-media-silence-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Moale James: Citizen journalism countering ‘deliberate’ media silence on West Papua">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2019
David Robie, concluding his three-part series about Iran, profiles an extraordinary pair of Tehran brothers who have been pioneering global research adventurers. They have been dubbed the “Persian Indiana Joneses”. Their adventures are fabled and hair-raising, as shown by a Jivaro shrunken human head and relics from curious rituals on display from almost 70 years ... <a title="Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/20/irans-great-global-adventurers-around-the-lost-world-in-10-years/" aria-label="Read more about Iran’s great global adventurers – around the lost world in 10 years">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2019
David Robie continues his three-part series about travelling in Iran. I stumbled on the scene by chance. Our host family in Iran’s second city Mashhad, a modern and beautiful metropolis that would comfortably fit in New Zealand’s entire population, was taking us on a drive to the outskirts to visit the tomb of the famous ... <a title="10 reasons why tourists must visit Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/19/10-reasons-why-tourists-must-visit-iran/" aria-label="Read more about 10 reasons why tourists must visit Iran">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2019
Iran attracts an onslaught of negative media in New Zealand and Western media. But is it fair or deserved? David Robie has spent several weeks travelling in the country on sabbatical and finds the media negativity far from the reality of the “most friendly” country he has ever visited in the first of a three-part ... <a title="Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/18/iran-a-hugely-friendly-country-behind-the-sabre-rattling/" aria-label="Read more about Iran a hugely ‘friendly’ country behind the sabre-rattling">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
OPINION: By Michael Andrew of Pacific Media Watch For the past three weeks, a wave of violent protest has been spreading across West Papua and Indonesia. Sparked by a racist attack on West Papuan students, the protests have featured the burning of government buildings, 6000 troops mobilised, an internet blackout, marauding, snake-wielding militias stabbing ... <a title="Michael Andrew: The NZ media’s coverage of the West Papua protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/michael-andrew-the-nz-medias-coverage-of-the-west-papua-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Andrew: The NZ media’s coverage of the West Papua protests">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Ivo Mateus Goncalves in Canberra Today, the people of Timor-Leste will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the popular consultation, through which the nation restored the independence it had prematurely declared in 1975. An election was held, a new president elected, new legislative members put in place and a new government sworn in as ... <a title="Timor-Leste turns 20: Colonial past feeds problems of neocolonial present" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/30/timor-leste-turns-20-colonial-past-feeds-problems-of-neocolonial-present/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste turns 20: Colonial past feeds problems of neocolonial present">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A senior Jakarta Post managing editor has predicted it is possible that West Papua may face a self-determination vote following the Timor-Leste example and this could pave the way for independence. Writing an opinion column in the Post today, Kornelius Purba warned the Papuan people may “fulfill their dream of independence ... <a title="East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Post editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/east-timor-style-referendum-possible-for-papua-says-post-editor/" aria-label="Read more about East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Post editor">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2019
ANALYSIS: By David Robie Indonesia’s harsh policies towards West Papua ought to be scrapped. Whatever happened to the brief window of enlightenment ushered in by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 with promises of a more “open door” policy towards foreign journalists and human rights groups? They were supposed to be seeing for themselves the ... <a title="West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/25/west-papuas-road-to-independence-following-the-timorese-lead/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon of the University of Wollongong Last weekend, the Indonesian police took 43 West Papuan students into custody for allegedly disrespecting the Indonesian flag during an independence day celebration (an allegation the students deny). Police stormed the students’ dorm and used teargas to force them out, while bystanders and officers called them ... <a title="West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/west-papua-riots-why-indonesia-needs-to-answer-for-its-broken-promises/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2019
ANALYSIS: By David Robie Indonesia recently hosted a bold public relations window-dressing expo in Auckland presenting itself as a “Pacific” nation while attempting to provide an unconvincing impression of normality in the two Melanesian provinces known collectively as West Papua. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi hailed “a new era of Pacific partnership – a Pacific ... <a title="Indonesia’s cover up over Papuan media freedom violations exposed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/22/indonesias-cover-up-over-papuan-media-freedom-violations-exposed/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s cover up over Papuan media freedom violations exposed">Read more</a>
