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August 21, 2019
By Michael Andrew Journalists across Papua New Guinea have spoken out in support of EMTV news director Neville Choi after his “unacceptable” termination from a role he had held for six years. A public statement released on Monday listed the reasons for his termination, one of which was his refusal to bury a February 2019 ... <a title="Journalists, media unite against ‘unacceptable’ Choi sacking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/journalists-media-unite-against-unacceptable-choi-sacking/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists, media unite against ‘unacceptable’ Choi sacking">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2019
By Michael Andrew The Pacific Media Centre has a new website and it will be going live over the next week. A project almost two years in the making, the PMC Online website features a new vibrant design along with an innovative user interface. Social enterprise website developer Tony Murrow from Little Island Press says ... <a title="Mobile era Pacific Media Centre website upgrade ready to go live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/25/mobile-era-pacific-media-centre-website-upgrade-ready-to-go-live/" aria-label="Read more about Mobile era Pacific Media Centre website upgrade ready to go live">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Police have pepper-sprayed two dogs and arrested three more people at the site of controversial land dispute in South Auckland, reports RNZ. The site at Ihumātao near Auckland Airport is zoned for housing development but has been the subject of a bitter dispute between local wi and private construction company Fletcher ... <a title="Protestors arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ South Auckland site" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/protestors-arrested-and-dogs-pepper-sprayed-at-sacred-south-auckland-site/" aria-label="Read more about Protestors arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ South Auckland site">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Phil Fitzpatrick in Tumby Bay The recent horrific events in Hela Province have brought the role of the police force in Papua New Guinea into sharp focus. Prime Minister James Marape is currently in Australia and has apparently discussed the issue with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. We can only hope that Morrison, if ... <a title="Phil Fitzpatrick: PNG’s Kramer ‘crucial’ law and order change maker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/phil-fitzpatrick-pngs-kramer-crucial-law-and-order-change-maker/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Fitzpatrick: PNG’s Kramer ‘crucial’ law and order change maker">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Indonesian government is furious over the Oxford City Council’s decision to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade, reports Kumparan. “Indonesia strongly condemns the award by the Oxford City Council for this person,” said the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry in a written statement ... <a title="Indonesia furious over Oxford award for Benny Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/indonesia-furious-over-oxford-award-for-benny-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia furious over Oxford award for Benny Wenda">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s threat to pursue anyone who impedes investment is worrying environmental activists who claim that such actions could criminalise those fighting for the environment, reports CNN Indonesia. Jokowi made the threat during his July 14 “Vision Indonesia” speech, in which he said he would chase and “soundly ... <a title="Jokowi’s investment vision worrying environmental activists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/18/jokowis-investment-vision-worrying-environmental-activists/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi’s investment vision worrying environmental activists">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2019
Figure 10: A Kanak voter wearing a ‘Kanaky New Caledonia’ flag tee shirt at the Loyalty Islands special polling booth in Vallee du Tir, Noumea. Image: David Robie David Robie Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Abstract The French-ruled territory of New Caledonia, or Kanaky, as Indigenous pro-independence campaigners call their cigar-shaped islands, voted on their political ... <a title="Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/17/independence-for-kanaky-a-media-and-political-stalemate-or-a-three-strikes-frexit-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Independence for Kanaky: A media and political stalemate or a ‘three strikes’ Frexit challenge?">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland More than 50 years of “torture” has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the complicity of Western governments, great fear has been put in the hearts and minds of people across the Pacific. These terrors have become cancerous tumours in the body of the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/yamin-kogoya-why-indonesian-trade-expo-deception-wont-win-pacific-hearts-and-minds/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts and minds">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Event date and time: Friday, July 26, 2019 – 17:00 – 18:30 JOIN US for this Pacific Media Centre‘s smorgasbord “launch” mid-winter fono and celebration for: + Two new documentaries on climate change and media freedom + The latest Pacific Journalism Review themed on “The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for Journalism and Democracy” + The ... <a title="PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/pmcs-mid-winter-smorgasbord-video-pjr-and-website-launch-fono/" aria-label="Read more about PMC’s mid-winter smorgasbord video, PJR and website ‘launch’ fono">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation following the horrific killing of 23 women (two of whom were pregnant) and nine children in the worst payback killing in our country’s history. In my capacity as Minister for ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/bryan-kramer-png-merciless-payback-killings-have-changed-everything/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation following the horrific killing of 23 women (two of whom were pregnant) and nine children in the worst payback killing in our country’s history. In my capacity as Minister for Police, ... <a title="PNG ‘merciless’ killings have changed everything, says Bryan Kramer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/png-merciless-killings-have-changed-everything-says-bryan-kramer/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘merciless’ killings have changed everything, says Bryan Kramer">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
By Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Oxford City Council is to award West Papuan activist Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of the City accolade for his tireless fight for West Papuan self-determination. Wenda, whom the United Kingdom granted political asylum in 2002, lives in Oxford with his family and it serves as the headquarters of ... <a title="West Papua’s Benny Wenda to be awarded Oxford’s highest honour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/west-papuas-benny-wenda-to-be-awarded-oxfords-highest-honour/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s Benny Wenda to be awarded Oxford’s highest honour">Read more</a>
