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February 14, 2025
By Lagi Keresoma in Apia The Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) Committee has finally issued a statement — 5 days after damaging social media attacks following the 2025 Pageant finals hosted by the Solomon Islands last Saturday. The statement yesterday simply said the committee recognised and deeply regretted the distress caused by recent disputes concerning ... <a title="‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late, say critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/damage-has-been-done-miss-pacific-pageant-statement-too-late-say-critics/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late, say critics">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
The Chinese have politely told the Kiwis to back off. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters that China and the Cook Islands have had diplomatic relations since 1997 which “should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party”. “New Zealand is rightly furious about it,” a TVNZ Pacific affairs writer editorialised to the ... <a title="Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/will-new-zealand-invade-the-cook-islands-to-stop-china-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as “obstructed” by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing forward with a controversial media law in spite of strong opposition. Among concerns previously documented by the civil rights watchdog are harassment and threats against human rights defenders, particularly those ... <a title="Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/civicus-monitor-criticises-png-use-of-cybercrime-law-to-curb-free-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
By Melina Etches of the Cook Islands News A motion of no confidence has been filed against the Prime Minister and his Cabinet following the recent fiasco involving the now-abandoned Cook Islands passport proposal and the comprehensive strategic partnership the country will sign with China this week. Cook Islands United Party leader Teariki Heather said ... <a title="Cook Islands opposition files no-confidence motion against PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/cook-islands-opposition-files-no-confidence-motion-against-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands opposition files no-confidence motion against PM">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID. It’s “the removal of a huge and important tool of American global statecraft” (Konyndyk), or the wood-chipping of a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America” (Musk) or, more reasonably, the unwarranted cancellation of an ... <a title="Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/powerless-another-asia-pacific-angle-on-the-long-siege-of-usaid/" aria-label="Read more about Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls has announced he will travel to New Caledonia later this month to pursue talks on the French territory’s political future. These discussions on February 22 follow preliminary talks held last week in Paris in “bilateral” mode with a wide range of ... <a title="French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls to visit Nouméa for key political talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/french-overseas-minister-manuel-valls-to-visit-noumea-for-key-political-talks/" aria-label="Read more about French Overseas Minister Manuel Valls to visit Nouméa for key political talks">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
As Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to resume war, Hamas outlines widespread Israeli ceasefire violations in document sent to the mediators. By Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Dropsite News Hamas officials submitted a two-page report to mediators yesterday listing a wide range of Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire since the agreement went into effect ... <a title="Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas report to mediators accuses Israel of pervasive Gaza ceasefire violations">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march ... <a title="Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/trumps-riviera-plan-for-gaza-heralds-an-age-of-naked-fascism/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2025
Jotham Napat has been elected as the new prime minister of Vanuatu. Napat was elected unopposed in Port Vila today, receiving 50 votes with two void votes. He is the country’s fifth prime minister in four years and will lead a coalition government made up of five political parties — Leaders Party, Vanua’aku Party, Graon ... <a title="Vanuatu parliament elects Jotham Napat as new prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/11/vanuatu-parliament-elects-jotham-napat-as-new-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu parliament elects Jotham Napat as new prime minister">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Israeli police have confiscated hundreds of books with Palestinian titles or flags without understanding their contents in a draconian raid on a Palestinian educational bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem, say eyewitnesses. More details have emerged on the Israeli police raid on a popular bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem. The owners were arrested ... <a title="Israeli police cite children’s ‘colouring book’ for Palestinian bookshop raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/11/israeli-police-cite-childrens-colouring-book-for-palestinian-bookshop-raid/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli police cite children’s ‘colouring book’ for Palestinian bookshop raid">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist China and the Cook Islands’ relationship “should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party”, says Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun, as opposition leaders in Rarotonga express a loss of confidence in Prime Minister Mark Brown. In response to questions from the Associated Press about New Zealand ... <a title="China: Cook Islands’ relationship with Beijing ‘should not be restrained’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/11/china-cook-islands-relationship-with-beijing-should-not-be-restrained/" aria-label="Read more about China: Cook Islands’ relationship with Beijing ‘should not be restrained’">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2025
Yasser Abdulaal, who has lived in Ōtautahi Christchurch for five years, said his two sisters had lost their homes in the 15-month-long war. “Toxic wasteland” . . . Palestinians take shelter in tents set up amid heavily damaged buildings in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Image: Al Jazeera screenshot APR Abdulaal said they and ... <a title="Ōtautahi man says family in Gaza will never leave despite US proposal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/11/otautahi-man-says-family-in-gaza-will-never-leave-despite-us-proposal/" aria-label="Read more about Ōtautahi man says family in Gaza will never leave despite US proposal">Read more</a>
