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August 23, 2022
By Jeffrey Elapa of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Madang MP Bryan Kramer, who held the police, justice and later immigration portfolios in the outgoing givernment, is no stranger to publicity stunts. Yesterday, he “ambushed” Chief Ombudsman Richard Pagen in the State Function Room of the National Parliament during the new MPs’ induction process. ... <a title="Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/kramer-ambushes-pngs-chief-ombudsman-challenges-integrity/" aria-label="Read more about Kramer ‘ambushes’ PNG’s chief ombudsman, challenges integrity">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
By Anish Chand in Suva Inadequate parental support and the lack of parental engagement with education stakeholders are resulting in boys’ disengagement from education in Fiji, says a new report released by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The report, Boys’ Disengagement from Education – Fiji Case Study, was authored by Dr Wahab ... <a title="UN report blames Fiji student dropout on ‘inadequate parental support’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/un-report-blames-fiji-student-dropout-on-inadequate-parental-support/" aria-label="Read more about UN report blames Fiji student dropout on ‘inadequate parental support’">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia’s Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association Oceania (PSAO) for a New Zealand-Papuan scholarship. The statement has been made after a relentless campaign by the Papuan advocacy group, which is made up of the PSAO and other ... <a title="Papuan governor supports advocacy group’s call for NZ scholarship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/papuan-governor-supports-advocacy-groups-call-for-nz-scholarship/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan governor supports advocacy group’s call for NZ scholarship">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, PNG One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine women in Papua New Guinea falsely accused last month of using sorcery to kill a leading businessman tells her story of survival. She does not want to be named as the situation ... <a title="‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/her-screams-pierced-our-hearts-i-knew-i-was-going-to-die-too/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
PNG Post-Courier The Southern Highlands capital — Mendi — has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates for the regional seat went on a warpath. The warring parties –– believed to be supporters of the incumbent governor against the other regional candidates –– shut down the town ... <a title="Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/mendi-a-battlefield-as-disgruntled-png-election-rivals-raid-police-station/" aria-label="Read more about Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
IndoLeft News Indonesia’s Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution of past gross human rights violations — signed recently by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo — will reinforce impunity and absolve perpetrators of past human rights violations. According to Setara Institute ... <a title="Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/jokowi-accused-of-whitewashing-rights-crimes-in-latest-impunity-decree/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific Residents of Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island are cleaning up and counting the cost of flood damage across the region, while authorities work to fix roads, clear slips and rebuild infrastructure. More than 400 homes had to be evacuated over the past few days after the Maitai River burst its banks ... <a title="A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/a-river-runs-through-city-nelson-surveys-damage-and-clean-up-ahead/" aria-label="Read more about A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up ahead">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva It was the friendliness of Fijians that led educator Hiroshi Taniguchi to give up his Japanese citizenship and make Fiji his home. The 50-year-old is a National Federation Party (NFP) provisional candidate for the 2022 general election. He moved to Fiji in 2004 and then established the Freebird Institute in ... <a title="Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/elections-hopeful-taniguchi-gave-up-citizenship-to-become-fijian/" aria-label="Read more about Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
RNZ Pacific The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia’s organisation looking at the aftermath of France’s nuclear weapons tests. The office says it wants to mark the sixth anniversary of Barrillot’s return from France to French Polynesia. He died ... <a title="Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/tahitis-nuclear-compo-advocate-to-be-honoured-in-french-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country’s Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term. President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed the instrument for the dissolution of Parliament this afternoon on the eve of a proposed motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Bob Loughman that was to have been ... <a title="Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/vanuatu-president-dissolves-parliament-respect-it-plea-by-loughman/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News in Auckland Tonga has not done enough to combat people trafficking and will remain on an American watch list, according to the US State Department’s annual report. Since convicting its first trafficker in April 2011, the government has not prosecuted or convicted any traffickers, the State Department said. The ... <a title="Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/tonga-stays-on-us-watch-list-for-not-doing-enough-on-people-trafficking/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Sixty years ago today — on 15 August 1962 — the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen by men in New York. The infamous event is known as “The New Agreement”, a deal between the Netherlands and Indonesia over West Papua’s sovereignty. A different fate had been ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/yamin-kogoya-west-papuas-colonial-fate-un-new-york-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’">Read more</a>
