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July 25, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Running like a pack of animals, a group of political party supporters in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby were armed with bush knives, iron bars and other weapons as they chased down two men outside the national elections counting centre yesterday afternoon. They reached the first man, and ... <a title="Armed PNG election supporters cause chaos in capital, attack bystanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/armed-png-election-supporters-cause-chaos-in-capital-attack-bystanders/" aria-label="Read more about Armed PNG election supporters cause chaos in capital, attack bystanders">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2022
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier editor Matthew Vari For weeks, we have seen the election violence as it spread in horrific proportions around the Highlands region, mainly in Enga and other provinces there. Men, women, and even children caught up in the fray costing lives and properties into the millions. Yesterday, the capital city also ... <a title="Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/post-courier-our-capital-port-moresby-our-last-stand-for-peace/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Our capital Port Moresby our last stand for peace">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2022
By Jairo Bolledo in Manila A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City, a shooting incident inside the Ateneo de Manila University claimed the lives of at least three individuals, including the former mayor of Lamitan, Basilan, Rose Furigay. Furigay was supposed to ... <a title="Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/three-killed-including-former-mayor-in-manila-university-campus-shooting/" aria-label="Read more about Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2022
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Why did criticism of a modest sum spent on a single mini-documentary made two years ago suddenly spring up in the news in two national networks this week — and then disappear? “I’m just so sick of everything getting taxpayer money for these projects. Why can’t people just pay ... <a title="Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/siouxsie-wiles-mini-doco-funding-criticism-does-vanishing-act-online/" aria-label="Read more about Siouxsie Wiles mini-doco funding criticism does vanishing act online">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
COMMENTARY: By John Minto During World War I, the New Zealand government took a big area of land at Raglan from the local Tainui Awhiro people to build an airfield and bunker as part of local war preparations. The airfield was never built and, instead of returning the land to the people, the government used ... <a title="John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be heard out loud" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/john-minto-from-raglan-to-palestine-let-our-voice-be-heard-out-loud/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be heard out loud">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Radio broadcaster Federico “Ding” Gempesaw has been shot and killed in broad daylight in front of his home in Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, reports the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The IFJ and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), condemn the murder and urge ... <a title="Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/assassins-gun-down-philippine-broadcaster-outside-home/" aria-label="Read more about Assassins gun down Philippine broadcaster outside home">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were not on the common roll in Papua New Guinea’s general election. No reports were received of people or election officials being hurt in the violence. Polling started on Monday and ... <a title="Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/disgruntled-png-voters-destroy-ballot-boxes-set-fire-to-voting-papers/" aria-label="Read more about Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
RNZ Pacific Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio will attend the Pacific Islands Forum in Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s stead as she recovers from covid-19. In a statement confirming the move this afternoon Aupito, who is also the Associate Foreign Minister, said he looked forward to the opportunity to talanoa with Pacific Island counterparts at ... <a title="Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/aupito-to-attend-pacific-islands-forum-in-fiji-instead-of-mahuta/" aria-label="Read more about Aupito to attend Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji instead of Mahuta">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
RNZ Pacific Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of the Republic of Vanuatu. It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College before he secured the required minimum number of 38 this afternoon. In the end he got a resounding 47 votes, after the Prime Minister, Bob Loughman, reached a deal ... <a title="Vanuatu elects new president after eight rounds of voting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/vanuatu-elects-new-president-after-eight-rounds-of-voting/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu elects new president after eight rounds of voting">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens’ leadership by a minority of party delegates and has yet to decide whether he will fight to stay on. Thirty-two out of 107 delegates voted at the party’s online annual general meeting ... <a title="‘A bit of a surprise’ – Greens co-leader James Shaw’s job on the line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/a-bit-of-a-surprise-greens-co-leader-james-shaws-job-on-the-line/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A bit of a surprise’ – Greens co-leader James Shaw’s job on the line">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Anything concerning the Catholic Church is extremely sensitive in Timor-Leste, as Raimundos Oki, the editor of The Oekusi Post website can confirm, reports the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Oki is facing a possible six-year jail sentence under article 291 of the penal code after being questioned about ... <a title="RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/rsf-criticises-charges-against-timor-leste-reporter-over-revealing-minors-given-virginity-tests/" aria-label="Read more about RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity tests">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A family has been under house arrest in Tokelau for almost a year after they refused to get vaccinated against covid-19. The tunoa — house arrest — was imposed on the family of four by the Taupulega (council) on Nukunonu, one of the three atolls that make up Tokelau. ... <a title="Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine defiance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/tokelau-family-under-house-arrest-for-nearly-a-year-over-vaccine-defiance/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine defiance">Read more</a>
