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February 4, 2020
By Harry Lock of RNZ News New Zealand universities fear the temporary travel ban on foreigners from China due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is going to be a big financial hit. Latest figures from 2018 showed 15,000 Chinese students were enrolled in New Zealand’s universities, but it is not yet known how many have ... <a title="NZ universities fear financial hit if students caught in virus travel ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/04/nz-universities-fear-financial-hit-if-students-caught-in-virus-travel-ban/" aria-label="Read more about NZ universities fear financial hit if students caught in virus travel ban">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2020
By Benny Geteng in Rabaul A Papua New Guinean student leader in the Chinese city of Wuhan says students fear for their lives with the increasing number of coronavirus infected people and are calling on the PNG authorities to intervene. Chris Tarkap, president of the PNG Students Association in Wuhan (PNGSIWA) and who is on ... <a title="PNG students in Wuhan scared of coronavirus infection – call for help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/04/png-students-in-wuhan-scared-of-coronavirus-infection-call-for-help/" aria-label="Read more about PNG students in Wuhan scared of coronavirus infection – call for help">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – President Rodrigo Duterte with the press … his powers to ban Rappler for two years challenged in court. Image: Freeze frame/David Robie By David Robie in Manila Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past ... <a title="Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/rappler-challenges-dutertes-media-powers-in-democracy-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
By RNZ News A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will be refused entry to New Zealand from tomorrow. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus was first detected, died today in hospital in the ... <a title="NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death outside mainland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/nz-to-shut-out-foreign-travellers-from-china-first-death-outside-mainland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death outside mainland">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2020
By Denis Muller in Melbourne In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. His reasons were succinct: Climate change deniers and those ... <a title="Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/02/media-impartiality-on-climate-change-ethically-misguided-and-dangerous/" aria-label="Read more about Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta Mongabay environmental editor Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia last evening, flying from Jakarta to New York after he was ordered not to leave Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, for 45 days. It is tragic that an American environmentalist who dedicated his energies to protecting Indonesia’s rain forests and indigenous people ... <a title="Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/andreas-harsono-jakarta-punishes-journalists-leaves-them-in-limbo/" aria-label="Read more about Andreas Harsono: Jakarta punishes journalists – leaves them in limbo">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By RNZ News A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. The illness has killed hundreds and sickened thousands since it emerged in China this month. In South Korea and Vietnam, businesses have put ... <a title="Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/coronavirus-nz-local-councillor-bombarded-with-racist-messages/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Philippine parliamentarians to resist President Rodrigo Duterte’s threats and ensure the survival of ABS-CBN, the country’s leading TV and radio network, by renewing its franchise. If its 25-year franchise is not renewed, as Parliament last did on 30 March 1995, all of ABS-CBN’s radio and ... <a title="RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/31/rsf-calls-on-philippines-congress-to-renew-abs-cbn-networks-franchise/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on Philippines Congress to renew ABS-CBN network’s franchise">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2020
By RNZ News Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus. Infections from the novel coronavirus has spread to more than 8100 people globally and has claimed more than 170 lives. New Zealand’s Ministry of Education advised schools on Monday to ask any students coming ... <a title="Coronavirus: NZ homestays reject Chinese students over virus fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/31/coronavirus-nz-homestays-reject-chinese-students-over-virus-fears/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: NZ homestays reject Chinese students over virus fears">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2020
Video report by RNZ Pacific. RNZ Pacific’s Jamie Tahana reports In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme measures to try and halt the spread of the new coronavirus. While authorities say the risk of an outbreak remains low, little is being left to chance – especially ... <a title="Coronavirus: Pacific Islands ‘fighting a war’ on epidemics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/30/coronavirus-pacific-islands-fighting-a-war-on-epidemics/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: Pacific Islands ‘fighting a war’ on epidemics">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealanders evacuated from Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Aotearoa – not on Christmas Island like the Australians. As efforts to co-ordinate evacuations continue, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said New Zealanders would be brought back home, but where to remained a question to be answered. “We are ... <a title="NZ coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan to be quarantined at unknown location" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/30/nz-coronavirus-evacuees-from-wuhan-to-be-quarantined-at-unknown-location/" aria-label="Read more about NZ coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan to be quarantined at unknown location">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2020
Rappler editorial It’s not the virus. It’s not the Chinese flying into the Philippines. Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan crisis is panic. Here’s the situation: a new strain of the coronavirus has caused an outbreak in the city of Wuhan in central China. It has so far killed 106 people and infected more than ... <a title="Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan virus outbreak – panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/29/our-biggest-enemy-amid-the-wuhan-virus-outbreak-panic/" aria-label="Read more about Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan virus outbreak – panic">Read more</a>
