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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific A late legal bid to postpone Sunday’s independence referendum in New Caledonia has reportedly failed. A leading anti-independence leader and president of New Caledonia’s Southern Province, Sonia Backes, said the highest French administrative court had rejected an urgent submission to defer the third and final independence referendum until next year. The submission was ... <a title="Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/paris-court-clears-way-for-sundays-new-caledonia-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Paris court clears way for Sunday’s New Caledonia referendum">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific Malaita province in Solomon Islands is planning to poll people on self-determination. It comes two weeks after a Malaitan-led protest against the national government in Honiara degenerated into a violent riot. The Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani, said he was seeking the help of the United Nations in the referendum, which he hoped to ... <a title="Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/malaita-plans-self-determination-poll-to-see-if-its-still-in-the-mind/" aria-label="Read more about Malaita plans self-determination poll to see if it’s ‘still in the mind’">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific A pro-independence delegation from New Caledonia has left for New York to raise its opposition to the independence referendum due this Sunday with the United Nations. New Caledonia has been on the UN decolonisation list since 1986. Because of the pandemic, the pro-independence parties say they will neither take part in the vote, ... <a title="Pro-independence delegation seeks UN backing over New Caledonia vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/pro-independence-delegation-seeks-un-backing-over-new-caledonia-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence delegation seeks UN backing over New Caledonia vote">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2021
By Bea Cupin in Manila Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa has called on tech and social media giants to practise “enlightened self-interest” amid a global call for platforms to step up in the fight against disinformation. “The world that you’ve created has already shown that we must change it. I continue to appeal for enlightened ... <a title="Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/09/nobel-laureate-ressa-how-the-information-ecosystem-has-been-poisoned/" aria-label="Read more about Nobel laureate Ressa: How the information ecosystem has been poisoned">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michael Field, co-editor of The Pacific Newsroom Extensive damage to food crops across South Pacific atolls has followed three days of high spring tides in the region. Reports into The Pacific Newsroom show the tides have afflicted Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and the archipelago islands of Papua New ... <a title="Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/tidal-damage-cuts-swathe-across-wide-area-of-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara After a day of political showdown that at times involved shouting battles and personal clashes, the much anticipated motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare was defeated by 32 votes to 15 with two abstentions. With the capital city Honiara virtually closed for business yesterday, attention turned to ... <a title="Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomon-islands-political-battle-ends-with-sogavare-winning-confidence-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed two people who had arrived in the country from southern Africa last month have now tested positive to the omicron variant of covid-19. The pair travelled to Fiji from Nigeria on November 25. They both tested positive to covid-19 while in a border quarantine facility. Health Secretary ... <a title="Two Fijians from Nigeria test positive for omicron variant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/two-fijians-from-nigeria-test-positive-for-omicron-variant/" aria-label="Read more about Two Fijians from Nigeria test positive for omicron variant">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Solomon Islands prime minister came in for searing criticism when he faced a confidence vote in Parliament today. A motion of no confidence against Manasseh Sogavare was debated amid tight security in the capital Honiara, where hundreds of regional security forces have deployed following major political unrest less than two weeks ago. ... <a title="Solomons PM condemned during confidence debate, but survives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomons-pm-condemned-during-confidence-debate-but-survives/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons PM condemned during confidence debate, but survives">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Shocking footage has been circulating on social media showing National Armed Forces (TNI) Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages in Suru-Suru District, Yahukimo Regency, Papua. Video: via Café Pacific SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya This past week marked 60 years since West Papua declared independence on 1 December 1961. Around the world, Papuans ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns. 60 years later, they’re still ruling with guns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/yamin-kogoya-60-years-ago-indonesia-invaded-west-papua-with-guns-60-years-later-theyre-still-ruling-with-guns/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns. 60 years later, they’re still ruling with guns">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sue Ahearn, co-editor of The Pacific Newsroom Did you notice anything different about the news coverage of the recent unrest in Honiara? Those fast-breaking stories on Australia’s television, radio and online networks were not presented by Australian journalists but by Solomon Islanders professionally reporting from the frontlines of the riots. There wasn’t ... <a title="Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomon-islands-where-the-world-news-talent-is-all-local/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands – where the world news talent is all local">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific A group of citizens in New Caledonia has asked France’s highest administrative court to postpone next Sunday’s third and final independence referendum. In an urgent submission, 146 voters and three organisations said that given the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, it was “unthinkable” to proceed with such an important plebiscite. They said that ... <a title="‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/unthinkable-referendum-on-new-caledonia-independence-challenged/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Unthinkable’ referendum on New Caledonia independence challenged">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has appealed to opposition leader Matthew Wale to “stop interfering” with police investigations in the wake of the rioting in Honiara last month. “It is unfortunate that the leader of opposition, Mr Mathew Wale, attempted to question an ongoing investigation by police in ... <a title="‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/dont-interfere-solomon-islands-police-tell-opposition-leader/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t interfere’, Solomon Islands police tell opposition leader">Read more</a>
