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June 3, 2024
This King’s Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie’s 50 years of service to Pacific journalism. He says he is astonished and quite delighted, and feels quite humbled by it all. “However, I feel that it’s not just me, I owe an enormous amount to my wife, Del, who is a ... <a title="50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/50-years-of-challenge-and-change-david-robie-reflects-on-a-career-in-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva “Let other people decide your salaries” is the latest message in the Fiji parliamentary pay controversy. This is the call of Fiji’s longtime House of Representatives Secretary Edward Blakelock, who believes that the Special Emoluments Committee must be independent. He said the Emoluments Committee, traditionally comprised independent consultants who were ... <a title="Independent committee needed for Fiji MPs’ salaries, says parliament chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/independent-committee-needed-for-fiji-mps-salaries-says-parliament-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Independent committee needed for Fiji MPs’ salaries, says parliament chief">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea Little Ima met Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape last Friday during the “haus krai” in Mulitaka, Enga, after the landslide disaster more than a week ago. His meeting happened when Marape beckoned him to get water from him. The action of the Prime Minister only ... <a title="Little Ima puts a question to PM Marape for Mulitaka survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/little-ima-puts-a-question-to-pm-marape-for-mulitaka-survivors/" aria-label="Read more about Little Ima puts a question to PM Marape for Mulitaka survivors">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Alakihihifo Vailala of PMN News Flipped “back in time” is how New Zealand author, journalist and media educator Dr David Robie describes the crisis in New Caledonia. Robie has covered the Asia-Pacific region for international media and educated Pacific journalists for more than four decades. He reported on the indigenous Kanak pro-independence uprising in ... <a title="King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/kings-birthday-honours-nz-journalist-reflects-on-work-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about King’s Birthday Honours: NZ journalist reflects on work in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in for an acclaimed American Samoan poet and teacher who was murdered last Saturday in Apia allegedly by a fellow poet. According to local police Dr Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, a retired professor from the University of Hawai’i Manoa, was found dead at the Galu Moana Theatre in Vaivase-Uta. The Samoa Observer ... <a title="Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/outpouring-of-grief-following-death-of-acclaimed-samoan-poet-and-writer/" aria-label="Read more about Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has commended the coordinated efforts between police and defence intelligence units in the lead up to and during the current sitting of Parliament. Commissioner Manning said claims made over the past five months, particularly on social media, had led to heightened public awareness of safety during ... <a title="PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/pngs-police-and-defence-force-close-ranks-to-foil-opportunist-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s NewsHub closure next month. The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, ... <a title="Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/newshub-closures-creating-waves-of-change-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the government of New Caledonia to offer support in finding a way forward. Brown said the political situation in the French territory — which is a full member of the PIF ... <a title="‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/france-has-caused-this-crisis-pacific-islands-forum-offers-support-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says “calm wise heads” are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia. A security force of more than 3000 personnel — more than half of them flown in from France — have returned to the capital Nouméa of the French territory to restore a sense ... <a title="NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/nz-foreign-minister-peters-calls-for-calm-wise-heads-in-new-caledonia-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape visited Wabag, the capital of Enga province, to meet authorities before flying to the site of last week’s landslide disaster to inspect the damage up close. Tribal violence between two clans in Tambitanis is still active, reportedly leading to 12 deaths ... <a title="12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/12-reportedly-dead-after-tribal-clashes-near-png-landslide-in-enga/" aria-label="Read more about 12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in a Facebook neighbourhood watch group, allegedly implicating them in acts of severe violence against a Kanak man they had just arrested. The municipal police officers are not part of the ... <a title="Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/three-noumea-police-officers-face-prosecution-after-viral-violent-video/" aria-label="Read more about Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military in its attack on Rafah — in defiance of the International Court of Justice order last Friday to halt the assault — and also French brutality in Kanaky New Caledonia. ... <a title="Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/palestine-solidarity-group-condemns-colonial-violence-in-rafah-kanaky/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky">Read more</a>
