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July 30, 2021
Warning: Content may be distressing to some viewers. The video of the assault on the Papuan deaf teenager. Video: Benar News SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya Shocking video footage showing a brutal and inhumane assault on a deaf Papuan teenager named Steven has emerged from the Merauke region of Papua and sparked outrage. This assault ... <a title="Outrage over Indonesian officers for stomping on disabled Papuan teen’s head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/30/outrage-over-indonesian-officers-for-stomping-on-disabled-papuan-teens-head/" aria-label="Read more about Outrage over Indonesian officers for stomping on disabled Papuan teen’s head">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The arrest of nine Fijian opposition politicians, including party leaders and two former prime ministers, once again exposes Fijian democracy’s fragility. The intimidation doesn’t bode well for the parliamentary elections due next year (or early 2023). The political crisis has been overshadowed by Fiji’s covid-19 crisis, which has ... <a title="Fiji’s other crisis – away from the covid emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fijis-other-crisis-away-from-the-covid-emergency-political-dissent-can-still-get-you-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s other crisis – away from the covid emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific A covid-19 positive patient is being flown to New Zealand from Fiji today despite an earlier decision by the Ministry of Health to decline the transfer. The infected patient from Fiji is being flown to Auckland for hospital treatment. It is reported the person involved is a high-profile staff member employed by the ... <a title="Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-covid-19-patient-being-flown-to-nz-for-treatment-in-about-turn/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
COMMENT: By Shailendra Singh in Suva This poignant photo by Max Vosailagi captures Fiji’s fixation with rugby sevens, with winning a second Olympic Gold last night by beating New Zealand 27-12 in the men’s final. Two young boys, glued to what is apparently a TV screen through a neighbourhood front door during the Tokyo Olympic ... <a title="Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-olympic-gold-never-to-be-missed-even-for-fijis-youngest-sevens-fans/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has dedicated its Olympic rugby sevens win to the people back home who are struggling amidst the country’s covid-19 health crisis. Fiji defeated New Zealand 27-12 in the men’s sevens final in Tokyo to defend the title they won in Rio five years ago. Captain Jerry Tuwai said the win is very ... <a title="Fiji dedicates Olympic sevens win to struggling people back home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-dedicates-olympic-sevens-win-to-struggling-people-back-home/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji dedicates Olympic sevens win to struggling people back home">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Allegations of “hijacking and manipulation” of a Papua New Guinea national government sanctioned validation exercise at the Porgera mine in Enga province have been raised, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Tieni Wuape clan leader from the Special Mining Lease (SML) Janet Yuwi told the Post-Courier that a landowner group was allegedly misleading ... <a title="PNG landowner group accused of ‘hijack’ over validation in Porgera" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/png-landowner-group-accused-of-hijack-over-validation-in-porgera/" aria-label="Read more about PNG landowner group accused of ‘hijack’ over validation in Porgera">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The co-leader of New Zealand’s minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party which it accuses of “igniting racism” in the framing of a debate about radical political change. In a provocative introduction to her weekly column in The New Zealand Herald today, ... <a title="Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/maori-party-calls-for-indigenous-debate-to-address-nz-racism-white-privilege/" aria-label="Read more about Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white privilege">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva The dream of putting a smile on his mother’s face on his graduation day from university has become one that will never happen for Gabriel Gade, after his mother succumbed to the coronavirus that has killed dozens of people in Fiji. “My ultimate dream was to make her proud of ... <a title="Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/fiji-student-son-tells-of-his-pregnant-nurse-mums-losing-struggle-with-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2021
RNZ Pacific France and French Polynesia have agreed to jointly spend US$60 million to build 17 cyclone shelters across the Tuamotu archipelago. This was announced on Manihi atoll, where the visiting French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the construction site for a shelter for the atoll’s 600 inhabitants. The shelters are scheduled to be built by ... <a title="Macron launches cyclone shelter project in French Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/macron-launches-cyclone-shelter-project-in-french-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about Macron launches cyclone shelter project in French Polynesia">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk After his release from prison in South Africa and he became inaugural president of the majority rule government with the abolition of apartheid, Nelson Mandela declared in a speech in 1997: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Founding Halt All Racist Tours ... <a title="1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/1981-springbok-tour-protests-revisited-and-now-palestine-is-the-new-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about 1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the new struggle">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s opposition MPs who were arrested after their criticism of a government land bill say they will not be intimidated or silenced. Police have since released several leaders of the opposition who were arrested late Sunday. One of those arrested, the National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad, said he was wanted in ... <a title="Fiji opposition MPs pledge not to be silenced, despite arrests over criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/fiji-opposition-mps-pledge-not-to-be-silenced-despite-arrests-over-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opposition MPs pledge not to be silenced, despite arrests over criticism">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s new FAST Party government has got down to work this morning, meeting with the heads of government departments, more than 100 days after it had won the election. FAST MPs were forced to swear themselves in because the Head of State had barred them from entering Parliament. The court ruled that the ... <a title="Samoa’s FAST party gets quickly down to work after court ruling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/27/samoas-fast-party-gets-quickly-down-to-work-after-court-ruling/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s FAST party gets quickly down to work after court ruling">Read more</a>
