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April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an “authoritarianism creep” by governments in the Asia-Pacific region provided a fast-changing landscape on the Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM today. New Zealand had crossed the 1000-case threshold on Sunday with 89 new ... <a title="Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/southern-cross-covers-host-of-issues-in-fast-moving-covid-19-time/" aria-label="Read more about Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. As New Zealand edges toward the third week of lockdown having passed 1000 cases threshold (1039) with 89 new cases, 12 clusters and one death on day 11 the bigger angst during the ... <a title="NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-passes-1000-cases-threshold-but-bauer-collapse-main-talking-point/" aria-label="Read more about NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Authorities are cracking down to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in Fiji, which already has 12 cases, reports TVNZ One News. Police have arrested more than 240 people in the last two days for breaching curfew. “This level of lawlessness is irresponsible, un-Fijian and not just plain stupid,” Fijian ... <a title="‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/stay-at-home-sweeping-virus-curfew-arrests-as-fiji-braces-for-tc-harold/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s too early to claim success against the spread of Covid-19 but 11 days into lockdown, New Zealand has made a good start. At today’s media briefing, Ardern was reluctant to draw too many conclusions from the number of new positive tests ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/nz-lockdown-day-11-nation-has-made-a-good-start-says-pm/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News in Brisbane Refugees and asylum seekers in Brisbane have begun daily protests urging for their release after doctors and human rights lawyers flagged fears that a repurposed hotel could become a coronavirus infection hotspot. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN Human Rights Commissioner this week issued a ... <a title="Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/refugees-asylum-seekers-flag-fears-over-possible-brisbane-virus-hotspot/" aria-label="Read more about Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The number of people with Covid-19 in the Pacific continues to climb with French Polynesia hitting 40 cases, Guam now over 90 and the US state of Hawai’i suffering its third coronavirus death. In the past day, another person tested positive for Covid-19 in French Polynesia. However the number of carriers in ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/pacific-coronavirus-cases-rise-in-tahiti-guam-and-hawaii/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie A rather beautiful Guåhan legend is rather poignant in these stressed pandemic times. It is one about survival and cooperation. In ancient times, goes the story, a giant fish was eating great chunks out of this western Pacific island. The men used muscle and might with spears and slings ... <a title="Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/creeping-authoritarianism-in-pacific-not-the-answer-to-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Haiqing Yu of RMIT University and Michael Keane of Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the epicentre where the coronavirus pandemic started. Now, there is face saving required – as well as agenda-setting in the global power play. China played a decisive role in combating the ... <a title="Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/masking-power-in-the-age-of-contagion-chinas-two-faces-over-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
Every day at 1pm New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announces precise figures on the number of confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19 in the country. He is working on the best information available, and during this week the level of community transmission was put at around 1 percent. But Sir David Skeggs, ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 9: How many Covid-19 cases does nation really have?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/nz-lockdown-day-9-how-many-covid-19-cases-does-nation-really-have/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 9: How many Covid-19 cases does nation really have?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Media on both sides on the Tasman face apocalyptic times as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic decimates the industry with Bauer Media NZ closing its doors and host of regional – 23 at the moment – Australian papers being shut down. Add to that, the imminent closure ... <a title="Trans-Tasman media suffers a blow on both sides on the Tasman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/trans-tasman-media-suffers-a-blow-on-both-sides-on-the-tasman/" aria-label="Read more about Trans-Tasman media suffers a blow on both sides on the Tasman">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) has strongly condemned the shoot-to-kill order by President Rodrigo Duterte this week as a ‘dangerous’ opening to target and kill anyone in a public space. “We are raising the alarm in the international community on President Duterte’s directive to kill unruly violators ... <a title="Duterte’s ‘shoot them dead’ virus order to troops slammed as dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/dutertes-shoot-them-dead-virus-order-to-troops-slammed-as-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte’s ‘shoot them dead’ virus order to troops slammed as dangerous">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch The Vanuatu government is using the Covid-19 to impose draconian measures and authoritarian rule by end of last month. Wholesale censorship of all Covid-19 related content has been instituted. Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) took the extraordinary step to issue directives under the State of ... <a title="Vanuatu using Covid-19 to impose censorship on media, citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/03/vanuatu-using-covid-19-to-impose-censorship-on-media-citizens/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu using Covid-19 to impose censorship on media, citizens">Read more</a>
