CoveragePost
June 14, 2020
By Evi Mariani in Jakarta The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have begun to discuss racism in the country and have touched upon a rarely discussed topic – racism against Papuans. For a long time, racism against Indonesians of Chinese descent, also called ... <a title="Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/call-for-chinese-indonesians-to-support-papuanlivesmatter/" aria-label="Read more about Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 13, 2020
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary. Temaru, mayor of the largest municipality Faa’a and a former territorial president, made the announcement outside the courts in Pape’ete where he and his supporters gathered every day this week. He ... <a title="Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/tahitis-pro-independence-leader-oscar-temaru-suspends-justice-hunger-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 13, 2020
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, RNZ Māori News Correspondent The future of the flagship Māori news show Te Karere is on the line as the New Zealand government proposes to create a single Māori news service run by Māori Television. The government this week released its much-aniticipated proposals for a major Māori media shake-up, Te Ao Pāpāho ... <a title="Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/fears-the-future-of-te-karere-maori-news-is-on-the-line/" aria-label="Read more about Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the line">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 13, 2020
By Wansolwara staff Pacific leaders are echoing strong calls for USP Council members to work together to resolve the ongoing challenges currently faced by the region’s premier educational institution. The call by Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano yesterday comes in the wake of mounting pressure from staff, students and stakeholders for good governance to prevail ... <a title="Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/pacific-leaders-call-for-for-common-sense-to-prevail-in-usp-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2020
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office three years ago. Video: BA News Pacific Media Watch PBS investigative documentary series Frontline has acquired A Thousand Cuts, the powerful documentary of award-winning Filipino-American director Ramona Diaz about a “lawless ... <a title="Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/frontline-snaps-up-ramona-diazs-powerful-doco-a-thousand-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Fiji’s NGO Coalition on Human Rights today condemned police for it called heavy-handed intimidation of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific, saying it was “deeply troubled” by the leadership saga. “It is appalling to see the continued interventions and intimidation by the Fiji government and Fiji police ... <a title="Civil society advocates condemn Fiji police ‘intimidation’ of USP students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/civil-society-advocates-condemn-fiji-police-intimidation-of-usp-students/" aria-label="Read more about Civil society advocates condemn Fiji police ‘intimidation’ of USP students">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2020
Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala headquarters campus in Suva, Fiji. University of the South Pacific Cook Islands campus staff and students are backing the university’s suspended vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Campus director Dr Debi Futter-Puati said she was pleased there ... <a title="USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/usp-cook-islands-backs-clean-out-bid-in-fiji-avoids-student-disruption/" aria-label="Read more about USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2020
By Wansolwara staff The decision to suspend the academic chief of the University of the South Pacific pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of “material misconduct” was made legally by the university’s executive committee, says pro-chancellor Winston Thompson. Thompson was responding yesterday to claims from concerned staff, students and some council members that ... <a title="Suspension of USP’s academic head ‘legal’ claims pro-chancellor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/suspension-of-usps-academic-head-legal-claims-pro-chancellor/" aria-label="Read more about Suspension of USP’s academic head ‘legal’ claims pro-chancellor">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2020
Indonesian police in West Papua say four prisoners isolated for suspected covid-19 infection have escaped from Bhayangkara Police Hospital and are still at large. A number of prisoners, including Papuan independence activists, had recently been transferred to the hospital in Papua’s capital Jayapura. The escaped prisoners broke down the bars in their hospital room windows ... <a title="Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/police-hunt-four-covid-suspect-papuan-prisoners-after-escape-from-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Police hunt four covid-suspect Papuan prisoners after escape from hospital">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 11, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi. contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, is the latest figure to support Nauru’s call to convene a special meeting of the University of the South Pacific Council in the long-running leadership saga. In a letter to incoming chancellor of the USP, ... <a title="Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for urgent meeting on USP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/forums-chief-meg-taylor-backs-nauru-call-for-urgent-meeting-on-usp/" aria-label="Read more about Forum’s chief Meg Taylor backs Nauru call for urgent meeting on USP">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Timor-Leste’s Minister of Justice plans to present to the Council of Ministers a proposal to include criminal defamation in the country’s penal code. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Timor-Leste Press Union (TLPU) have protested against the move that would undermine press freedom and public interest journalism, reports ... <a title="Media rights groups protest against Timor’s draft defamation law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/media-rights-groups-protest-against-timors-draft-defamation-law/" aria-label="Read more about Media rights groups protest against Timor’s draft defamation law">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 11, 2020
By Michael Field in Islands Business Senior academics and staff at the University of the South Pacific in Suva are accused in a special audit report of manipulating allowances to pay themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars they were not entitled to, as several Pacific governments say Fiji is using the COVID-19 emergency as a ... <a title="Secret report reveals widespread salary and allowance rorts at USP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/11/secret-report-reveals-widespread-salary-and-allowance-rorts-at-usp/" aria-label="Read more about Secret report reveals widespread salary and allowance rorts at USP">Read more</a>
