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July 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president. Louis Mapou was elected today in Noumea after months of negotiations between the two main pro-independence Kanak political groupings UNI and UC FLNKS. Australian journalist Nic Maclellan, a longtime writer on New Caledonian politics, says it is a significant victory for the Kanak people. ... <a title="New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/new-caledonia-elects-first-pro-independence-kanak-president/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
By Lian Buan in Manila Veteran journalist and former chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina has died after battling liver cancer, his family has confirmed. Espina was 59 years old, and died yesterday at their home in Bacolod. “Nonoy passed on peacefully, quietly surrounded by family ... <a title="Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/veteran-filipino-journalist-and-media-rights-advocate-nonoy-espina-59-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ News The agent for a ship carrying two covid-19-infected fishermen says New Zealand officials jumped the gun in announcing all its crew would be taken into managed isolation. The mariners were in a group of nine sailors who arrived in Auckland on Monday without having to quarantine and were immediately driven to New Plymouth ... <a title="Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/covid-19-cases-on-board-viking-bay-agent-says-nz-officials-jumped-gun/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
By Talebula Kate in Suva Fiji’s FEMAT field hospital at Laucala Bay in the capital Suva has begun its transition into a covid-19 dedicated hospital as the country’s health authorities reported 791 new cases and three deaths in the past day. Health Secretary Dr James Fong highlighted this in his covid-19 update last night. Dr ... <a title="Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fijis-field-hospital-begins-covid-crisis-transition-with-791-new-cases-3-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The FAST Party in Samoa has filed an application with the Supreme Court to have it recognise an impromptu swearing-in ceremony of elected members of the new political party. At the beginning of last week the court ruled the ceremony illegal as the Head of State was not present. But it said Parliament ... <a title="FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fast-to-ask-samoa-judges-to-recognise-impromptu-swearing-in/" aria-label="Read more about FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Fiji government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand’s lockdown example, an opposition leader says. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told media her advice was that the lockdown strategy had saved lives. Fiji is in the grip of ... <a title="Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fiji-government-useless-warns-prasad-ardern-touts-lockdown-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva Fiji’s fight against the covid-19 pandemic seems to have no light at the end of the tunnel after the Pacific nation has recorded 636 cases and six deaths in the past day alone. Yesterday’s number makes 5776 people battling the virus in total while the Health Ministry expects more cases ... <a title="Almost 6000 people battle covid-19 in Fiji – fears of new pandemic spike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/almost-6000-people-battle-covid-19-in-fiji-fears-of-new-pandemic-spike/" aria-label="Read more about Almost 6000 people battle covid-19 in Fiji – fears of new pandemic spike">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published a gallery of grim portraits — those of 37 heads of state or government who crack down massively on press freedom, reports RSF. Some of these “predators of press freedom” have been operating for more than two decades while others have just joined the blacklist, which for the first ... <a title="RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/rsfs-2021-press-freedom-predators-gallery-includes-old-tyrants-2-women/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving waves of covid infections all around the world. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning Delta will rapidly become the dominant strain, let’s take a look at this ... <a title="Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/why-is-delta-such-a-worry-its-more-infectious-probably-causes-more-severe-disease-and-challenges-our-vaccines/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva Fiji’s opposition SODELPA leader Viliame Gavoka has condemned Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum for their “unimaginable recklessness” over the country’s covid pandemic crisis. The politicians should know “they are held responsible for every covid-19 death for not listening and not doing what is right,” Gavoka said. Fiji ... <a title="SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/sodelpa-leader-blasts-pm-attorney-general-over-fiji-covid-recklessness/" aria-label="Read more about SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
RNZ Pacific Public frustration over mixed messages from the government is growing in Fiji as covid-19 continues to spread rapidly. The latest daily update saw another 352 new cases reported yesterday. The Health Ministry also confirmed three more deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 33 – 31 from this latest outbreak that ... <a title="Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/fiji-mortuary-full-public-frustration-confusion-rife-over-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Guyon Espiner, investigative reporter, RNZ In Depth New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations. The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government ... <a title="NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/nz-labour-mp-breaks-ranks-to-accuse-china-of-organ-harvesting-slave-labour/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour">Read more</a>
