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November 9, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A feature story authored by a student journalist highlighting the harm plastic pollution poses to human health in Fiji — with risks expected to rise significantly if robust action is not taken soon — has won the Online category of the 2024 Vision Pasifika Media Awards — Cleaner Pacific. Riya Bhagwan, a ... <a title="USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/09/usp-student-journalists-win-vision-pasifika-media-award-for-plastic-pollution-reports/" aria-label="Read more about USP student journalists win Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution reports">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A feature story authored by a student journalist highlighting the harm plastic pollution poses to human health in Fiji — with risks expected to rise significantly if robust action is not taken soon — has won the Online category of the 2024 Vision Pasifika Media Awards — Cleaner Pacific. Riya Bhagwan, a ... <a title="USP student journalist wins Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/01/usp-student-journalist-wins-vision-pasifika-media-award-for-plastic-pollution-report/" aria-label="Read more about USP student journalist wins Vision Pasifika media award for plastic pollution report">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked emails In-depth Solomons has obtained. On Monday last week [15 January 2024], Huangbi Lin, a diplomat working at the Chinese Embassy in Honiara, called the owner of Island Sun newspaper, ... <a title="‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan, reveals In-depth Solomons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/dear-media-friends-china-interferes-in-honiara-media-over-taiwan-reveals-in-depth-solomons/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan, reveals In-depth Solomons">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
By Mackenzie Smith and Toby Mann of ABC Pacific Beat Concerns have been raised about foreign influence in Pacific media after it was revealed Solomon Islands’ longest-running newspaper received funding from China in return for favourable coverage. Earlier this week the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed how China has been attempting to ... <a title="China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens its presence in region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/03/china-trying-to-buy-influence-with-pacific-media-as-it-strengthens-its-presence-in-region/" aria-label="Read more about China trying to buy influence with Pacific media as it strengthens its presence in region">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
By Bernadette Carreon and Aubrey Belford A major daily newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government in return for pledges to “promote the truth about China’s generosity and its true intentions to help develop” the Pacific Islands country, according to a leaked document and interviews. The revelation comes amid ... <a title="Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/solomon-star-promised-to-promote-china-in-return-for-funding/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2020
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) has publicly thanked one of the Solomon islands’ longest serving journalists and newspaper editors Ofani Eremae for his dedication and commitment in keeping the work of the media alive. Eremae, was reportedly dishonorably and undiplomatically terminated as editor by the Solomon Star newspaper, a family owned ... <a title="Transparency Solomon Islands pays tribute to Eremae for editor’s legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/18/transparency-solomon-islands-pays-tribute-to-eremae-for-editors-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency Solomon Islands pays tribute to Eremae for editor’s legacy">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2019
A Solomon Islands political float in the capital of Honiara yesterday before tomorrow’s general election. Image: Solomon Star/Screen shot PMC By RNZ Pacific With less than 24 hours to go before polling booths open for the Solomon Islands election tomorrow, RNZ Pacific’s reporter in Honiara, Koroi Hawkins, describes the mood and effect of a first-time ... <a title="Campaign ‘blackout’ in force ahead of Solomon Islands election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/02/campaign-blackout-in-force-ahead-of-solomon-islands-election/" aria-label="Read more about Campaign ‘blackout’ in force ahead of Solomon Islands election">Read more</a>
