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March 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown after detecting nine cases, reports Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes. The outbreak on the French archipelago was detected after a school headteacher fell ill on the Wallis and Futuna islands leading authorities ... <a title="Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/covid-outbreak-forces-new-caledonia-into-snap-two-week-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
OPEN LETTER: By Gary Juffa in Port Moresby Dear all, I had covid-19. I am now covid-free for 13 days now. Not sure where I contracted it, but I gave all details for contact tracing to the papua New Guinea’s National Department of Health (NDOH) who are doing the best they can despite circumstances. I ... <a title="Gary Juffa: People, covid is real … and dangerous. I know, I’m recovering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/gary-juffa-people-covid-is-real-and-dangerous-i-know-im-recovering/" aria-label="Read more about Gary Juffa: People, covid is real … and dangerous. I know, I’m recovering">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand (and maybe some other countries), according to reports. Air New Zealand will begin trialling digital vaccine passports (or “immunity passports”) on routes ... <a title="How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/how-would-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-work-and-whats-stopping-people-from-faking-them/" aria-label="Read more about How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Papua New Guinea’s Supreme and National Courts in Port Moresby will be partially closed for a week beginning yesterday after a judge has been tested positive for the covid-19, reports The National. Registrar Ian Augerea said in a statement the closure was to prevent any further infections to both judicial and administrative ... <a title="PNG courts close for a week after judge tests covid positive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/png-courts-close-for-a-week-after-judge-tests-covid-positive/" aria-label="Read more about PNG courts close for a week after judge tests covid positive">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with residents waking up today to a tsunami alert amid the covid-19 restrictions. The tsunami alert was triggered after three quakes overnight – the first of 7.3 magnitude struck about 2.30am ... <a title="NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/nz-the-unlucky-shaky-isles-says-ardern-after-tsunami-alert/" aria-label="Read more about NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to stop trying to keep Papua off the agenda at the Pacific Islands Forum and “strenuously support” Pacific leaders in urging Jakarta to allow a PIF fact-finding mission to the territory. Congratulating the PIF Secretary-General Meg Taylor on her statement ... <a title="Papua support group praises Meg Taylor for UN rights statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/papua-support-group-praises-meg-taylor-for-un-rights-statement/" aria-label="Read more about Papua support group praises Meg Taylor for UN rights statement">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
By RNZ News An 8.0 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands, hours after a 7.4 quake near the Kermadecs and a 7.1 off the North Island coast, A 7.4 quake struck near the Kermadec Islands earlier this morning. The islands are 800km to 1000km from New Zealand. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said people ... <a title="Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move higher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/major-8-0-quake-at-kermadecs-nz-warning-for-people-to-move-higher/" aria-label="Read more about Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move higher">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
TRIBUTE: By Frank Senge Kolma in Port Moresby Many will now try to recollect some experience, some exchange or brush with the Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare who fell to pancreatic cancer on February 26 after a long checkered career in politics as our founding Prime Minister. That he was an engaging conservationist is ... <a title="Frank Senge Kolma: Somare could lose his temper – trust me, I know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/frank-senge-kolma-somare-could-lose-his-temper-trust-me-i-know/" aria-label="Read more about Frank Senge Kolma: Somare could lose his temper – trust me, I know">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Human rights lawyer Veronica Koman has challenged the contrasting positions taken by the Indonesian government in response to calls to resolve the Papua problem and in its response to the military coup in Myanmar. Koman said Indonesia’s position on the Myanmar coup had been very good, but not its attitude on the ... <a title="Veronica Koman challenges Jakarta’s different stands on Burma and Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/veronica-koman-challenges-jakartas-different-stands-on-burma-and-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Veronica Koman challenges Jakarta’s different stands on Burma and Papua">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed by the sudden intensification of the ruling junta’s crackdown on journalists during the past three days, one month after the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, and warns the junta of its responsibility in the eyes of history. In all, at least 28 journalists have ... <a title="RSF protests over 11 journalists held in Myanmar coup military crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/rsf-protests-over-11-journalists-held-in-myanmar-coup-military-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about RSF protests over 11 journalists held in Myanmar coup military crackdown">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Rioters described by Papua New Guinea police as “opportunists” taking advantage of the death of Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare have looted shops and destroyed cars in three provinces – Morobe’s Lae, National Capital District (NCD) suburb Gordon and New Ireland’s Kavieng. Shots were fired and people ran helter-skelter, ... <a title="Rioters, looters strike PNG cities as nation mourns death of Somare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/rioters-looters-strike-png-cities-as-nation-mourns-death-of-somare/" aria-label="Read more about Rioters, looters strike PNG cities as nation mourns death of Somare">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the actions of the Destiny Church leaders in leaving Auckland on the eve of the alert level 3 lockdown were “completely irresponsible”. Earlier today it was revealed that church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki left Auckland on Saturday night, arriving around midnight in Rotorua, ... <a title="NZ covid: Destiny Church leaders actions ‘completely irresponsible’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/nz-covid-destiny-church-leaders-actions-completely-irresponsible/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: Destiny Church leaders actions ‘completely irresponsible’">Read more</a>
