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August 11, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya An Indonesian court has held a hearing to consider whether the ailing suspended Papua Governor, Lukas Enembe, is well enough to go on trial for the allegations of bribery and gratification that he is facing. The hearing was held in the Central Jakarta District Court yesterday to consider a second ... <a title="Ailing suspended Papuan governor Enembe now in detention cell after army hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/ailing-suspended-papuan-governor-enembe-now-in-detention-cell-after-army-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Ailing suspended Papuan governor Enembe now in detention cell after army hospital">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2023
By Felix Walton, RNZ News reporter A New Zealander on holiday in Maui says the wildfires devastating the Hawai’ian island are unlike anything he has seen before. Deadly wildfires on Maui prompted a county-wide state of emergency, and several brush fires have also caused evacuations on Hawai’i Island. Officials say at least 53 people have ... <a title="Lāhainā ‘completely wiped out’ – US declares Maui wildfires disaster as toll tops 53" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/11/lahaina-completely-wiped-out-us-declares-maui-wildfires-disaster-as-toll-tops-53/" aria-label="Read more about Lāhainā ‘completely wiped out’ – US declares Maui wildfires disaster as toll tops 53">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2023
PNG Post-Courier As drivers and pedestrians continued on their daily business yesterday afternoon in Papua New Guinea’s capital city Port Moresby, a cry went out as someone yelled “fire”. Located along Gabaka Street, Gordons, and within a compound that houses L and G Trading Limited Hardware Store and Bola Motors, a fire erupted from one ... <a title="PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/10/png-firefighters-battle-to-stop-port-moresby-blaze/" aria-label="Read more about PNG firefighters battle to stop Port Moresby blaze">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has called again for the immediate release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who has now been held hostage by pro-independence fighters in West Papua for six months. Speaking in Auckland, Hipkins said Mehrtens — a pilot for the Indonesian airline Susi Air which provide air links to remote ... <a title="Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/hipkins-urges-release-of-nz-hostage-six-months-after-papua-kidnapping/" aria-label="Read more about Hipkins urges release of NZ hostage six months after Papua kidnapping">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a “United Indigenous Nations” for global justice and an end to Indonesia’s ‘malignant’ colonisation of West Papua. Today — August 9 — is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as declared at the inaugural UN Working ... <a title="OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/opm-leader-calls-for-world-indigenous-un-end-to-papuan-colonisation/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a raid in Western Highlands province last week. The arrests identified a further seven men who were alleged to be part of a blackmarket network who move the illegal items from ... <a title="PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/08/png-seize-big-firearms-stockpile-arrest-10-in-highlands-blackmarket-raid/" aria-label="Read more about PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker. Asia Pacific Report A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021 by Indonesian security forces on a remote West Papuan village close to the Papua New Guinea border as part of an ongoing crackdown against growing calls for independence. The ... <a title="New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/new-documentary-human-rights-report-allege-indonesian-atrocities-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific anti-nuclear advocacy groups and campaigners have condemned Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s backing of Japan’s plans to release over one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. On Thursday, Rabuka announced he was “satisfied” with Japan’s efforts to ... <a title="Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/05/anti-nuclear-group-condemns-fiji-pm-rabukas-fukushima-wastewater-stance/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Police in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District are investigating the shooting yesterday of a woman reporter working with the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Central during an alleged confrontation between police and settlers at 8-Mile in Port Moresby. In the midst of the firing, allegedly aimed at each other, a stray bullet hit ... <a title="PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/png-woman-journalist-hit-by-stray-bullet-during-moitaka-shootout/" aria-label="Read more about PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Faced with a rise in the number of criminals in Papua New Guinea who are now armed and shooting at the police, Police Commissioner David Manning says “all gloves are off”. “We will not be practising any leniency and we will neutralise the criminals through any means — meaning they will be shot ... <a title="‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/you-will-be-shot-pngs-police-chief-warns-criminals-in-tough-message/" aria-label="Read more about ‘You will be shot’, PNG’s police chief warns criminals in tough message">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
In this the eighth episode of A View from Afar for 2023, political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine the risks of a 21st century nuclear war. The movie Oppenheimer has renewed interest in the dawn of the nuclear era. Almost 80 years later, are we safer from nuclear war than we were in the years immediately after 1945?
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August 3, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced a “new imperialism” in the region during a stop in Vanuatu, warning of a threat to the sovereignty of smaller states. But, earlier, during a two-day stop in France’s colonial ... <a title="Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to its territories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/macron-warns-of-new-colonialism-in-pacific-but-clings-to-its-territories/" aria-label="Read more about Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to its territories">Read more</a>
