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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Guam’s health statistics continue to mount, covid-19 has hit the first family, reports the Pacific Island Times. Following Governor Lou Leon Guerrero’s disclosure last night that she had tested positive for covid-19, her son Joaquin Cook, president of the Bank of Guam, revealed he has also been hit by the ... <a title="Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/guams-first-family-hit-by-covid-governors-son-tells-his-story/" aria-label="Read more about Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea and the impact of other Pacific cases on two very important upcoming votes in Bougainville and New Caledonia. Speaking on the ... <a title="New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/new-covid-cases-in-png-bougainville-new-caledonia-and-tahiti-aired/" aria-label="Read more about New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached 214 at the weekend. Newcrest Mining Limited confirmed that a 30-year-old male, a mine employee who had flown in from the capital Port Moresby on July 30, had tested positive. He was detected ... <a title="Second PNG mine confirms covid case as national infections top 200" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/second-png-mine-confirms-covid-case-as-national-infections-top-200/" aria-label="Read more about Second PNG mine confirms covid case as national infections top 200">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand’s strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of the gunman who carried out the Christchurch mosque attacks last year. Brenton Tarrant will be sentenced in the High Court in Christchurch beginning on Monday, August 24. Eighteen overseas and 11 New Zealand news organisations ... <a title="Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/foreign-media-told-to-obey-rules-over-mosque-gunman-sentencing/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2020
Studying a Bachelor of Arts at AUT helped Guled Mire understand his place in the world, so that he can make a difference in his community. Video: AUT By Simon Smith Guled Mire says his new Fulbright NZ scholarship to study at an Ivy League university in the United States sends a strong message to ... <a title="Former Somali refugee now Ivy League scholar bound for US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/09/former-somali-refugee-now-ivy-league-scholar-bound-for-us/" aria-label="Read more about Former Somali refugee now Ivy League scholar bound for US">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2020
By Patrick Makis in Buka Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville’s first covid-19 case. The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port Moresby on an Air Niugini flight on July 29, is stable and is being isolated in Arawa town. ABG’s Deputy Controller, Health Secretary Clement Totavun, said the contact tracing ... <a title="Contact tracing begins for first Bougainville covid case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/09/contact-tracing-begins-for-first-bougainville-covid-case/" aria-label="Read more about Contact tracing begins for first Bougainville covid case">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of covid-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 ... <a title="100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/100-days-without-covid-19-how-nz-got-rid-of-a-globally-spreading-virus/" aria-label="Read more about 100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
By RNZ Pacific France’s new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia’s restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October referendum on independence. Lecornu gave the assessment during a visit to New Caledonia House in Paris. Paris is expected to send dozens of officials and magistrates to supervise the plebiscite, ... <a title="New French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/new-french-minister-says-new-caledonia-referendum-on-track/" aria-label="Read more about New French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in cases occurs, a doctor says. Rita Flynn isolation facility manager Dr Gary Nou said it would be a disaster if the spread of covid-19 in the capital city continued to ... <a title="Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/port-moresby-may-need-to-expand-covid-isolation-facilities-warns-doctor/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The Hiroshima devastation 75 years ago today. Image: ICAN By David Robie While the globe struggles to cope with the deadly onslaught of the covid-19 pandemic, communicators, historians, journalists and activists have been deploying innovative ways of marking three nuclear-related anniversaries in barely a month. Over ... <a title="75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/75-plus-35-years-the-hiroshima-and-rainbow-warrior-nuclear-rewinds/" aria-label="Read more about 75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesia’s West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia. This year (2019), the West Papuan Democracy Index (IDI) was 57.62, even dropping lower from 2018 when it was 58.29 points. Based on data from the National Statistics Agency (BPS), West ... <a title="West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/west-papua-scores-lowest-democracy-index-free-expression-declines/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines">Read more</a>
