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February 11, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia is trying again to “divide and rule my people” by further carving Papua into three new provinces, warns interim president Benny Wenda of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP). And he says that Jakarta is bringing in another 450 troops in to “violently enforce” its policies. “Indonesian troops ... <a title="Reject Jakarta’s ‘divide and rule’ Papua provinces strategy, warns Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/reject-jakartas-divide-and-rule-papua-provinces-strategy-warns-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Reject Jakarta’s ‘divide and rule’ Papua provinces strategy, warns Wenda">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2021
By RNZ News New Zealand’s parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie in the debating chamber yesterday. Speaker Trevor Mallard’s office has confirmed he has encouraged the party to submit to the Standing Orders Committee asking that hei-tiki be allowed instead of ... <a title="Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/waititi-to-wear-his-maori-business-attire-back-to-nzs-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2021
There is no saga at the University of the South Pacific, claims Fiji’s Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. “There is no saga, there is no crisis,” said Sayed-Khaiyum when questioned about the deportation last Thursday of the university’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Speaking outside Parliament yesterday, he said he could not comment further on the issue, adding ... <a title="‘No crisis at USP,’ says Sayed-Khaiyum – ‘Untrue’, says Ro Teimumu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/no-crisis-at-usp-says-sayed-khaiyum-untrue-says-ro-teimumu/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No crisis at USP,’ says Sayed-Khaiyum – ‘Untrue’, says Ro Teimumu">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By The National in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has promised that the full force of the law and all resources at the Constabulary’s disposal will be used against policemen who flout the law and help criminals. Commissioner Manning’s warning followed recent threats against police detectives investigating a K286 million (NZ$105 million) ... <a title="Manning denounces threats against PNG K286m fraud probe detectives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/manning-denounces-threats-against-png-k286m-fraud-probe-detectives/" aria-label="Read more about Manning denounces threats against PNG K286m fraud probe detectives">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific There are signs Fiji’s deportation of the University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor was engineered to avoid his contract being given better security. Professor Pal Ahluwalia told RNZ Dateline Pacific that on Wednesday last week the USP chancellor, Nauru President Lionel Aingimea, had alerted the university’s governing body, the USP Council, ... <a title="Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/deportation-of-usp-academic-head-hinted-at-in-fiji-media-veiled-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Chinese government has formally charged Australian journalist Cheng Lei with “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”, almost half a year after she was first detained, reports ABC News. Lei has been held since August last year under a form of detention that allows Chinese police to imprison and question a suspect ... <a title="China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/china-formally-charges-australian-journalist-cheng-lei-half-year-after-being-detained/" aria-label="Read more about China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji’s Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ruled that an oral question from National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad, a former USP economics academic, and an adjournment ... <a title="Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/fiji-speaker-disallows-debate-on-usps-ahluwalia-deportation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
By Jina Amba in Port Moresby The University of PNG has clarified that Papua New Guinea’s higher education loan programme (Help) is administered by a government department and not the university. Vice-chancellor Professor Frank Griffin said the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (DHERST) looked after the loan programme. He said UPNG had ... <a title="Griffin clarifies UPNG’s stance over higher education loan programme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/griffin-clarifies-upngs-stance-over-higher-education-loan-programme/" aria-label="Read more about Griffin clarifies UPNG’s stance over higher education loan programme">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
By RNZ Pacific Micronesian leaders are to meet today to agree on a united response to the snub of their preferred candidate as Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) secretary-general last week. They say the rejection of Marshall Islands’ Gerald Zackios has led to division within the Pacific. PIF members voted in favour of former Cook Islands ... <a title="Micronesian leaders to debate leaving Pacific Islands Forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/micronesian-leaders-to-debate-leaving-pacific-islands-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Micronesian leaders to debate leaving Pacific Islands Forum">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva Documents tabled at last week’s special council meeting of the University of the South Pacific suggest that plans to amend the contract of the university’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, prompted his forced deportation and that of his wife by Fiji government authorities on Thursday. Nauru President Lionel Aingimea, ... <a title="Fiji bought time to deport USP vice-chancellor and his wife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/fiji-bought-time-to-deport-usp-vice-chancellor-and-his-wife/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji bought time to deport USP vice-chancellor and his wife">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
OPEN LETTER: By USP staff, alumni and students Vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia has only been at the University of the South Pacific (USP) for three years – and each year, Fiji has attempted to “coup” him. The first was in August 2019, second in June 2020 and now February 2021. First, through a 16-page paper ... <a title="USP open letter: How Fiji infiltrated a campus and kidnapped a vice-chancellor in ‘Gestapo-style coup’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/usp-open-letter-how-fiji-infiltrated-a-campus-and-kidnapped-a-vice-chancellor-in-gestapo-style-coup/" aria-label="Read more about USP open letter: How Fiji infiltrated a campus and kidnapped a vice-chancellor in ‘Gestapo-style coup’">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2021
The politics of divide and rule and how Indonesia’s attempt to separate indigenous Papuans is an irrational and unrealistic proposal that will damage the cultural values of kinship and togetherness as Melanesian people, writes Dr Socratez Yoman. ANALYSIS: By Dr Socratez Yoman The Indonesian coloniser has become an ignorant ruler with deaf ears and with ... <a title="Why Indonesia’s planned new Papuan provinces will cause division and destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/07/why-indonesias-planned-new-papuan-provinces-will-cause-division-and-destruction/" aria-label="Read more about Why Indonesia’s planned new Papuan provinces will cause division and destruction">Read more</a>
