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July 25, 2019
French television journalist Hugo Clément speaking out about the arrest in Queensland on Monday. Video: Euronews Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has dropped trespass charges against a prominent French journalist and his film crew who were arrested while filming anti-Adani protesters earlier this week, reports ABC News. France 2 reporter Hugo ... <a title="Police drop trespass charges against French TV crew at Adani protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/25/police-drop-trespass-charges-against-french-tv-crew-at-adani-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Police drop trespass charges against French TV crew at Adani protest">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2019
By Michael Andrew The Pacific Media Centre has a new website and it will be going live over the next week. A project almost two years in the making, the PMC Online website features a new vibrant design along with an innovative user interface. Social enterprise website developer Tony Murrow from Little Island Press says ... <a title="Mobile era Pacific Media Centre website upgrade ready to go live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/25/mobile-era-pacific-media-centre-website-upgrade-ready-to-go-live/" aria-label="Read more about Mobile era Pacific Media Centre website upgrade ready to go live">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Police have pepper-sprayed two dogs and arrested three more people at the site of controversial land dispute in South Auckland, reports RNZ. The site at Ihumātao near Auckland Airport is zoned for housing development but has been the subject of a bitter dispute between local wi and private construction company Fletcher ... <a title="Protestors arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ South Auckland site" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/protestors-arrested-and-dogs-pepper-sprayed-at-sacred-south-auckland-site/" aria-label="Read more about Protestors arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ South Auckland site">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Eight members of Britain’s House of Lords want to see their government take a strong stand on press freedom in West Papua. In an open letter, the members claimed Indonesia was trying to restrict information from West Papua amid allegations of widespread human rights abuses. In the letter published this week, the ... <a title="British Lords call for strong stand on press freedom in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/british-lords-call-for-strong-stand-on-press-freedom-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about British Lords call for strong stand on press freedom in West Papua">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Australian authorities to drop all charges against four French TV journalists who – in what RSF called an “unacceptable attack on investigative journalism” – were arrested yesterday while filming environmentalists protesting at a coal terminal near the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Australia. ... <a title="RSF demands Australian police drop charges against French TV crew" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/23/rsf-demands-australian-police-drop-charges-against-french-tv-crew/" aria-label="Read more about RSF demands Australian police drop charges against French TV crew">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>
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July 22, 2019
By RNZ Pacific West Papuan fighters have killed an Indonesian soldier in a renewed threat to Jakarta’s road project there. State news agency Antara reported the hit-and-run attack on Saturday took place in Nduga regency, where pro-independence forces are waging war on the Indonesia’s military. An Indonesian researcher, Hipo Wangge, said it was the ninth ... <a title="West Papuan independence fighters kill Indonesian soldier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/22/west-papuan-independence-fighters-kill-indonesian-soldier/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan independence fighters kill Indonesian soldier">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape wants Australia to close the detention centre it has been running on PNG’s Manus island for six years. According to Australian media, Marape has asked Canberra to give him a timeline for closing the facilities where Australia has been holding refugees and asylum seekers who ... <a title="PNG’s Marape wants Australia to close Manus detention camp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/22/pngs-marape-wants-australia-to-close-manus-detention-camp/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape wants Australia to close Manus detention camp">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2019
By Royson Willie in Port Vila Two Vanuatu Daily Post journalists were literally given a pat-down by the police criminal investigation unit yesterday over a story they had written about the vehicle of the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Martin Mahe, being detained. The story ran in yesterday’s edition of the Daily Post. The ... <a title="Vanuatu police question journalists over ‘detained’ vehicle story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/19/vanuatu-police-question-journalists-over-detained-vehicle-story/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu police question journalists over ‘detained’ vehicle story">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2019
By Gorothy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape will visit Australia this weekend for a week-long state visit and the Bougainville independence referendum in less than three months is expected to be high on the agenda. Marape will leave Port Moresby on Sunday and will start his visit with a ... <a title="Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/19/bougainville-referendum-on-agenda-during-marapes-state-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville referendum on agenda during Marape’s state visit">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland More than 50 years of “torture” has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the complicity of Western governments, great fear has been put in the hearts and minds of people across the Pacific. These terrors have become cancerous tumours in the body of the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/yamin-kogoya-why-indonesian-trade-expo-deception-wont-win-pacific-hearts-and-minds/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation following the horrific killing of 23 women (two of whom were pregnant) and nine children in the worst payback killing in our country’s history. In my capacity as Minister for ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/bryan-kramer-png-merciless-payback-killings-have-changed-everything/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything">Read more</a>