CoveragePost
April 21, 2021
Reporters Without Borders The Asia-Pacific region’s authoritarian regimes have used the covid-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the “dictatorial democracies” have used it as a pretext for imposing especially repressive legislation with provisions combining propaganda and suppression of dissent. The behaviour of the region’s few real democracies have, meanwhile, ... <a title="RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/rsf-2021-index-censorship-and-the-disinformation-virus-hits-asia-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 19, 2021
New Zealand has long had a privileged relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Now, in the dawning era of the climate crisis affecting millions of lives across the Pacific, the country has its helping hand outstretched. But with the controversial record of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, does this hand have an ulterior motive? Matthew Scott ... <a title="Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/strings-attached-the-reality-behind-nzs-climate-aid-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 2, 2021
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga A group of Tongan missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Papua New Guinea has gone into hiding in a church in Lae as unrest and violence erupted in the country yesterday. The chaos came after days of mourning following the death on ... <a title="Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian shops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/tongan-missionaries-in-hiding-in-png-as-angry-looters-target-asian-shops/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian shops">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 20, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other Pacific countries will have access to a vaccine. The Northern Marianas, which is a US territory, was expecting 5,000 doses of the The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to arrive during the ... <a title="Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/20/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-starts-in-parts-of-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 28, 2020
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News Recognised seasonal employee workers in New Zealand rarely have a voice in the New Zealand media, new research at Massey University has found. Researcher Dr Angelynne Enoka said coverage of the RSE scheme by regional media tended to focus on official sources and employers’ views and almost never quoted ... <a title="Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says researcher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/give-rse-workers-a-media-voice-and-ask-hard-questions-says-researcher/" aria-label="Read more about Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says researcher">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 21, 2020
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island for 15 months in 1965. The story received more than seven million hits in just four days, but some Tongans have pointed out that the story, which foregrounds the point of ... <a title="Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/wheres-the-pacific-voice-in-the-viral-real-lord-of-the-flies-story/" aria-label="Read more about Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 4, 2020
Tonga has fallen five places to lie 50th in this year’s World Press Freedom Index. In last year’s index, compiled by the Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), it was 45th out of 180 countries. Tonga’s highest ranking was in 2016 when RSF placed it 37th. READ MORE: Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, ... <a title="Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep fighting’ call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/04/tonga-drops-five-places-in-world-free-press-rankings-keep-fighting-call/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga drops five places in world free press rankings – ‘keep fighting’ call">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
May 2, 2020
EDITORIAL: By Kaniva News staff Last month’s announcement by Minister for Pacific Peoples ‘Aupito William Sio that overstayers qualify for health care during the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is welcome. While Kaniva News does not condone remaining illegally in New Zealand, we know that overstayers’ families and children are particularly vulnerable in the current crisis. Many ... <a title="Kaniva News: Amnesty time for NZ overstayers to help check virus spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/02/kaniva-news-amnesty-time-for-nz-overstayers-to-help-check-virus-spread/" aria-label="Read more about Kaniva News: Amnesty time for NZ overstayers to help check virus spread">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 27, 2020
By Philip Cass Tonga will go into lockdown at 1am on Sunday morning, March 29. There will also be a night time curfew from 8pm to 6am. Prime Minister Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa said the lockdown was being ordered as a response to the World Health Organisation declaration that the Covid-19 coronavirus was a global pandemic and ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/pacific-coronavirus-lockdown-curfew-begin-in-tonga-on-sunday/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 20, 2020
By Kalino Lātū,, editor of Kaniva Tonga Prime Minister Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa announced today the Pacific kingdom of Tonga is now in a state of emergency, effective at 8.30pm tonight until 17 April 2020. He said the declaration was subject to further review. Tu’i’onetoa said Tonga had closed its borders to everyone but citizens and residents ... <a title="Tonga declares state of emergency, shuts borders over coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/20/tonga-declares-state-of-emergency-shuts-borders-over-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga declares state of emergency, shuts borders over coronavirus">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 10, 2020
By Philip Cass Former Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will be sentenced at the end of next month after being found guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday of three charges, including making a false statement for the purpose of obtaining a passport and perjury. The offences in what was known as the Chinese passport scandal were ... <a title="Former Tongan PM guilty on false statement, perjury charges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/10/former-tongan-pm-guilty-on-false-statement-perjury-charges/" aria-label="Read more about Former Tongan PM guilty on false statement, perjury charges">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 5, 2020
Pacific Media Watch New Zealand is providing NZ$1 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Suva, Fiji, to support its Pacific Action Plan for Covid-19 coronavirus preparedness and response. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced that New Zealand is partnering with countries in the Pacific to ensure they are prepared for, and able ... <a title="NZ pledges $1m for WHO in coronavirus support to Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/05/nz-pledges-1m-for-who-in-coronavirus-support-to-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about NZ pledges $1m for WHO in coronavirus support to Pacific">Read more</a>
