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May 22, 2025
By Patrick Muuh in Port Moresby Journalists in Papua New Guinea are likely to face legal threats as powerful individuals and companies use court actions to silence public interest reporting, warns Media Council of PNG president Neville Choi. As co-chair of the second Community Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC) National Meeting, he said lawfare was likely ... <a title="PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/png-journalists-warned-over-lawfare-we-dont-have-any-law-to-stop-slapps-says-choi/" aria-label="Read more about PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands. It comes as the Indonesian military claims 18 members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) were killed in an hour-long operation in Intan Jaya on May 14. In a statement, ... <a title="Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/indonesian-military-operations-spark-concerns-over-displaced-indigenous-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Al Jazeera How global power struggles are impacting in local communities, culture and sovereignty in Kanaky, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. In episode one, The Battlefield, tensions between the United States and China over the Pacific escalate, affecting the lives of Pacific Islanders. Key figures like former Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani and tour ... <a title="The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1: The Battlefield" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/the-west-v-china-fight-for-the-pacific-episode-1-the-battlefield/" aria-label="Read more about The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1: The Battlefield">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/gordon-campbell-nzs-silence-over-gaza-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia and French Polynesia have sent strong delegations this week to the United Nations Pacific regional seminar on the implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism in Timor-Leste. The seminar opened in Dili today and ends on Friday. As French Pacific ... <a title="New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/new-caledonia-french-polynesia-at-un-decolonisation-seminar-in-dili/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report today it was “intolerable” that Israel had blocked any aid reaching residents for many weeks. The UN is warning that 14,000 ... <a title="NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-running-out-of-patience-peters-lashes-israel-over-gaza-aid-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Birte Leonhardt, Folker Hanusch and Shailendra B. Singh The role of journalism in society is shaped not only by professional norms but also by deeply held cultural values. This is particularly evident in the Pacific Islands region, where journalists operate in media environments that are often small, tight-knit and embedded within traditional communities. ... <a title="Culture at the core: examining journalism values in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/culture-at-the-core-examining-journalism-values-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Culture at the core: examining journalism values in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israel has been accused of “manipulation” and “cynical” circumvention of global decisions calling for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to the besieged Gaza enclave. “In a clear act of defiance against international humanitarian obligations, the occupying state has permitted only nine aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip — covering both the devastated ... <a title="Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/israel-slammed-over-cynical-sidestep-of-global-rulings-on-gazan-humanitarian-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The deposed Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, says Speight’s motive had less to do with indigenous rights and a lot more to do with power, greed, and access to the millions likely to accrue from Fiji’s mahogany plantation. On ... <a title="Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/speights-fiji-coup-had-more-to-do-with-power-greed-than-itaukei-rights-says-chaudhry/" aria-label="Read more about Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England in Christchurch “RNZ is failing in its duty to inform the public of an entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe.” Tautoko to Jeremy Rose, Ramon Das and Eugene Doyle for this critique of a review of RNZ’s coverage of a genocide. Sadly, this highlights RNZ’s failure to report the genocide from the perspective ... <a title="Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/time-for-nz-media-to-ditch-the-propaganda-and-stand-against-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2025
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has called on Prime Minister James Marape to stop Telikom PNG silencing and suppressing media personnel. Telikom PNG, which is 100 percent government-owned, has two key outlets: FM100 radio and EMTV. Recently, it sacked FM100 talkback host Culligan Tanda after he featured opposition East Sepik Governor Allan ... <a title="Media Council makes ‘stop Telikom PNG silencing journalists’ plea to PM Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/16/media-council-makes-stop-telikom-png-silencing-journalists-plea-to-pm-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Media Council makes ‘stop Telikom PNG silencing journalists’ plea to PM Marape">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media personnel who inadvertently put their lives on the line as New Caledonia burned. “It was very shocking. I don’t know the word in English, you can’t believe what you’re seeing,” ... <a title="New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-like-the-country-was-at-war/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’">Read more</a>
