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September 12, 2023
Stuff New Zealand’s Stuff media group has joined other leading news organisations around the world in restricting Open AI from using its content to power artificial intelligence tool Chat GPT. A growing number of media companies globally have taken action to block access to Open AI bots from crawling and scraping content from their news ... <a title="Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/12/stuff-joins-global-media-groups-curbing-open-ai-from-using-news-sites/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff joins global media groups curbing Open AI from using news sites">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s opposition has called on Prime Minister James Marape to immediately recall Parliament to address the escalating killings in the upper Highlands provinces. The opposition also wants the debate to include other law and order issues that have spiralled out of control in other parts of the country. The call was ... <a title="PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/21/png-opposition-calls-for-emergency-over-highlands-naked-body-killings/" aria-label="Read more about PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2023
By Rashika Kumar in Suva Suva lawyer Richard Naidu is a free man after the Suva High Court ruled this week that no conviction be recorded against him. High Court judge Justice Daniel Goundar ruled on Tuesday that the charge of contempt scandalising the court against Naidu be dismissed. He said summons to set aside ... <a title="Fiji judge dismisses lawyer Richard Naidu’s guilty conviction over ‘scandalising court’ case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/21/fiji-judge-dismisses-lawyer-richard-naidus-guilty-conviction-over-scandalising-court-case/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji judge dismisses lawyer Richard Naidu’s guilty conviction over ‘scandalising court’ case">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of its online stories. An RNZ digital journalist has been placed on leave after it came to light he had changed copy from news agency Reuters on the war in Ukraine ... <a title="RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/rnz-board-to-begin-setting-up-independent-review-of-pro-russia-edits-to-stories/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ board to begin setting up independent review of pro-Russia edits to stories">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The self-styled provisional government of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua“with the people” of the Melanesian region have declared political support for full West Papuan membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). In a statement issued in the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila after a meeting of thew ULMWP executive in ... <a title="West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/06/west-papuan-provisional-government-backs-full-membership-of-msg/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2023
Jubi News in Jayapura Esther Haluk, a women’s rights activist from GARDA Papua, is among West Papuan activists who have condemned a declining state of freedom of speech in the Melanesian region. Speaking in a recent online discussion on “Status and Trends of Freedom of Expression, Assembly, and Digital Rights in West Papua”, she said ... <a title="Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/20/papuan-activists-accuse-jakarta-over-mounting-brutal-repression-arrests/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2023
PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside. Video: ABC News ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa, Prianka Srinivasan and Belinda Kora Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister has stepped aside after a widespread backlash to comments he made in defence of a video his daughter posted on TikTok. Justin Tkatchenko called critics of the video “primitive ... <a title="PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/13/pngs-foreign-minister-justin-tkatchenko-steps-aside-over-video-row/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa and Belinda Kora Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister has vehemently defended his daughter against a furious backlash to a Tik Tok video she posted as part of PNG’s official delegation to King Charles III’s coronation. The video posted by Savannah Tkatchenko flaunts extravagant meals in first class airport lounges ... <a title="PNG foreign minister defends daughter over ‘flaunting’ coronation trip video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/png-foreign-minister-defends-daughter-over-flaunting-coronation-trip-video/" aria-label="Read more about PNG foreign minister defends daughter over ‘flaunting’ coronation trip video">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2023
Highlights of the 2023 World Press Freedom Index. Video: RSF By David Robie Timor-Leste has topped a stunning rise among Asia-Pacific countries to make it to into the “top ten” countries in this year’s World Press Freedom Index that saw island nations improve their rankings. The youngest nation in Southeast Asia — which gained independence ... <a title="Timor-Leste makes top ten in 2023 World Press Freedom Index" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/04/timor-leste-makes-top-ten-in-2023-world-press-freedom-index/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste makes top ten in 2023 World Press Freedom Index">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2023
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board There will be celebrations as well as self-contemplation in newsrooms around the world today to mark World Press Freedom Day 2023, with the Fourth Estate facing some of its biggest challenges yet. It was only close to two years ago when Samoa’s constitutional crisis tested the resolve of ... <a title="Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/03/samoa-observer-2023-world-press-freedom-day-reflection-celebration/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji’s Department of Information spent $889,234.84 in taxpayer funds to the Fiji-owned company Vatis Communications until its contract was terminated earlier this year. Prime Minister and Minister for Information and Public Enterprises Sitiveni Rabuka revealed this in Parliament last week in response to questions raised surrounding the engagement of Vatis ... <a title="$889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/889k-plus-in-fiji-taxpayer-funds-paid-out-to-vatis-communications/" aria-label="Read more about $889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” For decades, the BBC’s editorial policy in reporting on Israel and Palestine has consistently chosen the side of the oppressor — and ... <a title="Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/08/al-aqsa-raid-how-bbc-coverage-is-enabling-israeli-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence">Read more</a>
