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March 18, 2022
RNZ News An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city’s dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand’s current covid-19 outbreak. Nurses, midwives and others employed by the region’s district health boards (DHBs) have been entitled to an extra $500 on top of their normal pay for extra shifts overnight. ... <a title="Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix covid crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/18/auckland-hospitals-put-most-care-on-hold-incentives-fail-to-fix-covid-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix covid crisis">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby The dormant Bougainville Copper Limited share value has more than doubled overnight on the Australian Stock Exchange following a resolution to reopen the rich but controversial Panguna copper mine. Landowners from the mine area and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) signed a joint resolution last Friday to reopen the ... <a title="Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/panguna-share-value-doubles-overnight-after-landowners-opt-to-reopen-mine/" aria-label="Read more about Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Justice and peace advocates in New Zealand have strongly criticised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “horrific crackdown” on community leaders, activists, and educators. They have condemned in a statement published in Manila yesterday the arrest last September of Filipina educator and poet Lorena Sigua on a “trumped-up murder charge”. The advocates of ... <a title="NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/04/nz-protesters-slam-arrest-of-lumad-cultural-speaker-and-other-filipino-political-prisoners/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protesters slam arrest of Lumad cultural speaker and other Filipino political prisoners">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2021
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Not a single tear was shed as 54 unclaimed bodies and 11 body parts were laid on top of each other in a single open grave dug out at the 9-Mile Cemetery in Port Moresby this week. It was a rather undignified way to go for the corpses. What ... <a title="9 children among 54 bodies in Port Moresby mass burial for unclaimed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/12/9-children-among-54-bodies-in-port-moresby-mass-burial-for-unclaimed/" aria-label="Read more about 9 children among 54 bodies in Port Moresby mass burial for unclaimed">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2021
By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva Critics in Fiji are concerned about climate change hypocrisy at the COP26 Leaders Summit this week. Fiji Times contributor Ajay Bhai Amrit was moved to comment about the problem of the government’s “gas guzzler” vehicle fleet. Bula readers! First and foremost, this article is not a criticism of the ... <a title="‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/05/practise-what-you-preach-climate-message-to-fiji-over-cop26/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2021
RNZ Pacific Global climate talks have started in Glasgow, Scotland, but most Pacific leaders cannot get there. While the leaders of four Pacific nations are attending the United Nations’ COP26 summit, covid travel restrictions are preventing the leaders of 10 Pacific nations from attending with their delegates. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is one, ... <a title="Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/pacific-nations-will-be-mostly-unheard-at-critical-cop26-climate-summit/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nations will be mostly unheard at critical COP26 climate summit">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2021
By Talebula Kate in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was briefed yesterday on Fiji’s priority areas ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) which includes keeping 1.5 degrees alive, scaling up support for adaptation and loss and damage, oceans climate nexus, increased climate finance and finalising the Paris Agreement rule book. Bainimarama is adamant ... <a title="Bainimarama briefed on Fiji, Pacific priorities at COP26 to dodge disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/bainimarama-briefed-on-fiji-pacific-priorities-at-cop26-to-dodge-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama briefed on Fiji, Pacific priorities at COP26 to dodge disaster">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2021
By Glenda Willie in Port Vila The Vanuatu Red Cross Society (VRCS) is one of the first humanitarian organisations to intervene and support the volcano internal refugees who were victims of eviction order at MCI on the road to Blacksand last week. Emma Mesao, senior branch officer of SHEFA Red Cross, said the organisation dealt ... <a title="Red Cross gives emergency supplies to Tanna volcano refugee eviction victims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/25/red-cross-gives-emergency-supplies-to-tanna-volcano-refugee-eviction-victims/" aria-label="Read more about Red Cross gives emergency supplies to Tanna volcano refugee eviction victims">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2021
Kaniva Tonga Cardinal Soane Patita Mafi has a message for the politicians who will soon gather for next month’s COP 26 conference, regarded by many as the last chance to avoid the worst that climate change has to offer. The Tongan-based prelate’s message is simple: Listen. “We want those big nations to really see and ... <a title="Cardinal’s message for COP26 climate conference: ‘Listen to the Pacific’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/24/cardinals-message-for-cop26-climate-conference-listen-to-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Cardinal’s message for COP26 climate conference: ‘Listen to the Pacific’">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2021
By Evan Schuurman Bougainville community leader and MP Theonila Roka Matbob has received the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award in recognition of her outstanding work to hold mining giant Rio Tinto to account for the legacy of environmental devastation caused by its former Panguna mine. Matbob, 31, is a traditional landowner from Makosi, just downstream ... <a title="Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/08/panguna-campaigner-theonila-matbob-wins-award-over-rio-tinto-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Nearly two years since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, its global socioeconomic “headwinds” have blown many countries far off course from the aims of the climate 2030 Agenda, says the Fiji prime minister. But fierce as those winds may be, they are “a whisper” next to the intensifying crisis ... <a title="Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/31/covid-pandemic-blows-world-off-course-over-climate-crisis-says-bainimarama/" aria-label="Read more about Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s new prime minister has opted not to proceed with a China-backed port development project championed by her predecessor. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa said the US$100 million (NZ$139m) project would have significantly added to the country’s exposure to China which already accounts for 40 percent of its external debt. The proposed construction in Vaiusu ... <a title="Samoa confirms China-backed Vaiusu Bay port project shelved" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/02/samoa-confirms-china-backed-vaiusu-bay-port-project-shelved/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa confirms China-backed Vaiusu Bay port project shelved">Read more</a>
