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July 15, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board When Australia’s second-longest ever serving Prime Minister faced a complete wipeout at the national elections after 10 years in power — even being voted out of his own seat — he realised that he had lost but only as part of a process much bigger than he was. ... <a title="Samoa Observer: For Tuila’epa, what follows defeat?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/15/samoa-observer-for-tuilaepa-what-follows-defeat/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: For Tuila’epa, what follows defeat?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dicky Budiman, Griffith University Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in covid-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been predicting. The country recorded its largest single-day increase in new cases on July 13, with more than 47,000 infections. And this is likely to be a huge undercount because too ... <a title="Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to rise again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/15/indonesia-records-highest-increase-in-covid-cases-numbers-likely-to-rise-again/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to rise again">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hele Christopher-Ikimotu I am Banaban. I come from an ancestry of survivors and a once rich land. However, Banaba died to make other nations live. The Banabans though are proud survivors and we maintain that we are a race that still lives. Google will tell you my ancestral home of Banaba is ... <a title="Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/banaba-island-the-land-that-died-so-others-could-live/" aria-label="Read more about Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
By Serafina Silaitoga in Labasa, Fiji Villagers and surrounding farmers in Labasa on Fiji’s Vanua Levu island turned up in big numbers for the covid-19 vaccination drive held at Nakorowiri village. Opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu gave his house for medical officials to use for the AstraZeneca vaccination drive. “The villagers came in numbers volunteering ... <a title="Fiji’s Nakorowiri villagers turn up in numbers to be vaccinated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/fijis-nakorowiri-villagers-turn-up-in-numbers-to-be-vaccinated/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Nakorowiri villagers turn up in numbers to be vaccinated">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s HRPP party — the country’s caretaker government — has now lost six seats since the April 9 general election, with eight byelections to come. The incoming FAST Party government holds 26 seats to the HRPP’s 19. FAST, which won the election but has been stymied in its efforts to assume power by ... <a title="Samoa’s HRPP loses more seats as political impasse drags on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/samoas-hrpp-loses-more-seats-as-political-impasse-drags-on/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s HRPP loses more seats as political impasse drags on">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk British and Indonesian human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo, founder of TAPOL watchdog and the movement’s driving force for many decades, has died peacefully aged 96. TAPOL said in an announcement that she had died on Saturday and would greatly missed by an extensive network of people whose lives had been “touched ... <a title="Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/papuan-and-human-rights-defender-carmel-budiardjo-dies-at-96/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. The Government has begun a $3.5m advertising campaign to convince New Zealanders of the need for radical reform of our drinking, storm and wastewater. A consensus appears to be building on the need for change, but there are arguments against the Government’s “Three Waters” reforms. Have they come up with the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Democratic and equity deficits in the Three Waters reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-democratic-and-equity-deficits-in-the-three-waters-reforms/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Democratic and equity deficits in the Three Waters reforms">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
By Lian Buan in Manila Veteran journalist and former chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina has died after battling liver cancer, his family has confirmed. Espina was 59 years old, and died yesterday at their home in Bacolod. “Nonoy passed on peacefully, quietly surrounded by family ... <a title="Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/veteran-filipino-journalist-and-media-rights-advocate-nonoy-espina-59-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Filipino journalist and media rights advocate Nonoy Espina, 59, dies">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ News The agent for a ship carrying two covid-19-infected fishermen says New Zealand officials jumped the gun in announcing all its crew would be taken into managed isolation. The mariners were in a group of nine sailors who arrived in Auckland on Monday without having to quarantine and were immediately driven to New Plymouth ... <a title="Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/covid-19-cases-on-board-viking-bay-agent-says-nz-officials-jumped-gun/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
By Talebula Kate in Suva Fiji’s FEMAT field hospital at Laucala Bay in the capital Suva has begun its transition into a covid-19 dedicated hospital as the country’s health authorities reported 791 new cases and three deaths in the past day. Health Secretary Dr James Fong highlighted this in his covid-19 update last night. Dr ... <a title="Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fijis-field-hospital-begins-covid-crisis-transition-with-791-new-cases-3-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s field hospital begins covid crisis transition with 791 new cases, 3 deaths">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The FAST Party in Samoa has filed an application with the Supreme Court to have it recognise an impromptu swearing-in ceremony of elected members of the new political party. At the beginning of last week the court ruled the ceremony illegal as the Head of State was not present. But it said Parliament ... <a title="FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fast-to-ask-samoa-judges-to-recognise-impromptu-swearing-in/" aria-label="Read more about FAST to ask Samoa judges to recognise impromptu swearing in">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Fiji government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand’s lockdown example, an opposition leader says. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told media her advice was that the lockdown strategy had saved lives. Fiji is in the grip of ... <a title="Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fiji-government-useless-warns-prasad-ardern-touts-lockdown-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits">Read more</a>
