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January 29, 2021
By RNZ News The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the risk of community spread, epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says. Three positive cases, a Northland woman and a father and daughter in Auckland, were detected this week after they had left ... <a title="‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/29/impose-stricter-quarantine-measures-epidemiologist-tells-nz/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2021
OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae Yesterday in Papua New Guinea, our Port Moresby-Madang flight got cancelled. Minutes earlier, as we sat in the departure lounge, I was so confident. No there was no doubt… Cancel that. I wasn’t even thinking about a cancellation. In my universe, a cancellation was not part of the equation. ... <a title="Scott Waide: Tangfu! Just another PX flight cancellation in Port Moresby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/29/scott-waide-tangfu-just-another-px-flight-cancellation-in-port-moresby/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Tangfu! Just another PX flight cancellation in Port Moresby">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2021
By Adi Briantika in Jakarta A group of Papuan students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta, who were planning to hold a protest action opposing the extension of Papuan Special Autonomy (Otsus), have been arrested and taken to the Metro Jaya regional police headquarters. “Around 15 people were taken away ... <a title="15 arrested at Jakarta parliament rally against Papuan special autonomy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/29/15-arrested-at-jakarta-parliament-rally-against-papuan-special-autonomy/" aria-label="Read more about 15 arrested at Jakarta parliament rally against Papuan special autonomy">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2021
By RNZ News The two new cases of covid-19 confirmed yesterday in New Zealand are the South African variant and initial results show they are connected to the Northland case at the Pullman Hotel. This morning the Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, confirmed to Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins that preliminary genomic sequencing results ... <a title="NZ’s two new covid cases linked to South African strain in Northland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/29/nzs-two-new-covid-cases-linked-to-south-african-strain-in-northland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s two new covid cases linked to South African strain in Northland">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2021
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s biggest hospital is straining to provide medical services to the growing population of the capital Port Moresby – with an estimated growth rate of 3 percent annually, a medical executive says. Port Moresby General Hospital chief executive officer Dr Paki Molumi said overcrowding, especially in the ... <a title="Port Moresby hospital under strain with overcrowding, says doctor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/28/port-moresby-hospital-under-strain-with-overcrowding-says-doctor/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby hospital under strain with overcrowding, says doctor">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk More leading Indonesian figures have made racial slurs against Natalius Pigai, former chair of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) – and all West Papuans, says United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) interim president Benny Wenda. “Since the illegal Indonesian invasion in 1963, Indonesian elites have made clear their ... <a title="State-sanctioned racism against West Papuans ‘shows Jakarta’s true agenda’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/27/state-sanctioned-racism-against-west-papuans-shows-jakartas-true-agenda/" aria-label="Read more about State-sanctioned racism against West Papuans ‘shows Jakarta’s true agenda’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. As economies went into freefall, the world’s billionaires increased their already huge fortunes by 27.5 percent. And as many ordinary people lost their jobs ... <a title="We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/27/we-are-the-1-the-wealth-of-many-australians-puts-them-in-an-elite-club-wrecking-the-planet/" aria-label="Read more about We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2021
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer, PNG’s Minister of Police who has defended Commissioner Manning’s appointment today in The National My last article, announcing that I intend to make a submission to the National Executive Council (NEC) to amend the Public Service regulation to no longer require the Commissioner of Police to hold a tertiary degree, prompted ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree? None" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/bryan-kramer-how-many-png-police-chiefs-have-had-a-degree-none/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: How many PNG police chiefs have had a degree? None">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2021
New Zealand’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has revealed that 14 close contacts of the Northland community case have returned negative test results. Yesterday he announced two close contacts – her husband and hair dresser – were negative. In his tweet, Hipkins described the news as “encouraging”. However, New Zealand should be ready to move ... <a title="NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/nz-covid-14-close-contacts-of-northland-case-test-negative/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid: 14 close contacts of Northland case test negative">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia, with the consequence that many national news websites are no longer appearing in the search results seen by some users. The Australian, ABC, Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Guardian ... <a title="RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/rsf-condemns-google-for-dropping-australian-media-searches-in-tests/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, University of Melbourne Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of agonising free-speech dilemmas to which there are no easy answers. Do they allow a president of the United States to use their platforms to falsely and provocatively claim ... <a title="To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/22/to-publish-or-not-to-publish-the-medias-free-speech-dilemmas-in-a-world-of-division-violence-and-extremism/" aria-label="Read more about To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path Two weeks after the storming of the US Capitol by the followers of his predecessor, in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans, Joe Biden — the 46th president ... <a title="Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/21/joe-biden-sends-a-clear-message-to-watching-world-americas-back/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s back">Read more</a>
