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March 2, 2021
The Myanmar army, police and militia’s use of violence against peaceful protestors reached another level on Sunday, February 28. By 5pm, local media reported at least 19 confirmed killings and another 10 unconfirmed. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) spoke to journalists covering the nationwide protests. Toe Zaw Latt, a video journalist and production director with ... <a title="Myanmar’s Bloody Sunday – security forces ‘live tracking’ media, protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/myanmars-bloody-sunday-security-forces-live-tracking-media-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar’s Bloody Sunday – security forces ‘live tracking’ media, protesters">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2021
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s 11 newly elected ministers have again failed to elect a new president. Like two weeks ago, none of the three candidates managed to secure the support of at least six ministers. At today’s meeting called by the French High Commissioner Laurent Prévost, the anti-independence Future with Confidence coalition’s Thierry Santa ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/kanaky-new-caledonia-ministers-again-deadlocked-over-president-election/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2021
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga A group of Tongan missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Papua New Guinea has gone into hiding in a church in Lae as unrest and violence erupted in the country yesterday. The chaos came after days of mourning following the death on ... <a title="Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian shops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/tongan-missionaries-in-hiding-in-png-as-angry-looters-target-asian-shops/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian shops">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis Last month, I wrote on Facebook that the resumption of my blog Grubsheet for 2021 was being postponed out of consideration for the national effort to assist the victims of tropical cyclones Yasa and Ana. I made the observation that it was not the time for politics but for supporting the ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/01/graham-davis-fat-cat-leaders-laughing-in-the-face-of-fijis-suffering/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fat-cat leaders laughing in the face of Fiji’s suffering">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2021
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she gets that everyone is angry over the latest New Zealand community covid-19 cases after it emerged there was contact between two families, but the important thing is to fix the situation. Contact between the families was not disclosed to contact tracers prior to the earlier family ... <a title="NZ covid: Ardern on latest 3 cases: ‘Everyone is angry… we have to fix it’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/01/nz-covid-ardern-on-latest-3-cases-everyone-is-angry-we-have-to-fix-it/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: Ardern on latest 3 cases: ‘Everyone is angry… we have to fix it’">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2021
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Author Margaret Mills speaking at the launch of The Nine Lives of Kitty K at Waiheke Library today. IMAGE: David Robie Introduction for the book launch of The Nine Lives of Kitty K by Margaret Mills Waiheke Library, Waiheke, 27 February 2021 AUTHOR Margaret Mills ... <a title="The Nine Lives of Kitty K, by Margaret Mills – the launch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/28/the-nine-lives-of-kitty-k-by-margaret-mills-the-launch/" aria-label="Read more about The Nine Lives of Kitty K, by Margaret Mills – the launch">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Sara Niner Xanana Gusmao’s recent contrived jovial participation in the birthday celebrations of “self-professed” paedophile and defrocked foreign priest Richard Daschbach has shocked many of his supporters, not least his Australian former wife and three Timorese-Australian sons who have publicly condemned the visit and written apologetic letters to the young women who were due ... <a title="Timor-Leste: Political leadership, patriarchal relationships, and the paedophile ex-priest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/27/timor-leste-political-leadership-patriarchal-relationships-and-the-paedophile-ex-priest/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste: Political leadership, patriarchal relationships, and the paedophile ex-priest">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2021
By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea Sir Michael was a man of many titles. He was father, grandfather and chief. As a tribal leader, he was Sana, the peacemaker. His influence and his reputation extended beyond Papua New Guinea’s border to the Pacific and other parts of the region. Sir Michael Somare has ... <a title="Michael Somare – the passing of a great man, Sana, the peacemaker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/27/michael-somare-the-passing-of-a-great-man-sana-the-peacemaker/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Somare – the passing of a great man, Sana, the peacemaker">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Ritchie, Deakin University Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, former prime minister of Papua New Guinea and a giant of Pacific politics, has died from pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Known as “Mike” to some and “the chief” to others, Somare in more recent years became widely referred to as “the grand chief” ... <a title="Obituary: Sir Michael Somare, ‘father’ of PNG and colossus of Pacific politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/obituary-sir-michael-somare-father-of-png-and-colossus-of-pacific-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Obituary: Sir Michael Somare, ‘father’ of PNG and colossus of Pacific politics">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University, and Michael Depledge, University of Exeter In 1992, 1700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans and other life could have a ... <a title="‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Papua New Guineans awoke this morning to great sadness, reports the PNG Post-Courier. As the bells tolled with the sad news of the passing of the much beloved statesman and the founding father of the nation, newsfeeds and social media were abuzz with shock, grief, sadness and tributes to the great man ... <a title="Papua New Guinea in grief after Grand Chief Somare, 84, passes on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/papua-new-guinea-in-grief-after-grand-chief-somare-84-passes-on/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea in grief after Grand Chief Somare, 84, passes on">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Indonesian police have asked participants at a protest action against Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua to take covid-19 rapid tests at the site of the demonstration in front of the Home Affairs Ministry office in Jakarta this week, reports CNN Indonesia. The protesters refused, saying it was an attempt to silence them. ... <a title="Papuan protesters claim police using covid rapid tests to curb free speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/papuan-protesters-claim-police-using-covid-rapid-tests-to-curb-free-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan protesters claim police using covid rapid tests to curb free speech">Read more</a>
