Vanuatu evacuates 8000 villagers on Ambae as volcano erupts
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Manaro Voui volcano erupting – photo take yesterday. Image: Vanuatu Digest/FB Facebook By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu’s Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae is erupting and 8000 people are being evacuated on the island. The Penama provincial government council and National Disaster Management Office is currently evacuating […]
Read More →Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights violations
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation. Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the vast flows of refugees and migrants, noting that in 2016 the number of displaced people around the world stood at 65 million […]
Read More →Willie Jackson: Vision, hope and compassion will beat lies in NZ
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz “Jacinda Ardern has touched people and made them feel like they can believe again.” Image: TDB OPINION: By Willie Jackson Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made them feel like they can believe again […]
Read More →Labour MP blames Māori Party for NZ ‘inequality’ as National’s partners
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Labour MP Aupito William Sio … “we don’t believe in giving wealthy people more money at the expense of creating more poverty”. Image: Aupito William Sio /FB/Kaniva News By Philip Cass in Auckland Mangere Labour MP Aupito William Sio has hit out at claims by Tongan Māori Party […]
Read More →Consulate denies Māori Party claim for royal backing for Tongan candidate
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Manase Lua in one of the photos he took in ʻAtalanga and posted on Facebook. Image: Manase Lua/FB By Philip Cass in Auckland Tonga’s Consul has denied claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that he was endorsed by King Tupou VI. Lua made the claims in […]
Read More →Pasifika voters want ‘hand-ups, not hand-outs’ in NZ housing crisis
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Kendall Hutt in Māngere Pasifika voters in South Auckland have stressed they would like to see “hand-ups, not hand-outs” following New Zealand’s 2017 general election on Saturday. At a live Q+A election panel held at the Māngere Arts Centre Community Café, homelessness and Auckland’s housing crisis were […]
Read More →West Papua: Five facts about Indonesia’s ‘dark, dirty secret’
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz University of the South Pacific students at an on-campus solidarity rally in Fiji for West Papuans. They display the Morning Star flag, banned by Indonesian authorities. Image: We Bleed Black and Red ANALYSIS: By Connor Woodman The Indonesian President, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, is desperate to keep hidden Indonesia’s […]
Read More →Jakarta advocacy group accuses hardline general over attack
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) advocacy head Muhammad Isnur … names two people suspected of masterminding the attack on the human rights office. Image: Detak By Dwi Andayani and Noval Dwinuary Antoni in Jakarta Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) advocacy head Muhammad Isnur has accused retired Major-General Kivlan […]
Read More →Vanuatu’s PM aims at UN over ‘sensitive’ West Papua issue
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Prime Minister Charlot Salwai … “Vanuatu continues to commit to spearheading the West Papua cause”. Image: Vanuatu Daily Post By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, says some South Pacific leaders at this month’s Forum in Samoa backed off making a decision about […]
Read More →The Daily Blog: Why we’re giving 13 NZ political parties a ‘fair go’ tonight
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Kiwi Fair Go Debate #KiwiFairGo – tonight at 8pm. OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury of The Daily Blog I love New Zealand’s democracy. It’s representative, it allows for indigenous political representation and it gives everyone the chance to have a say whether they are a citizen or permanent resident. […]
Read More →Dressed to impress – PNG’s second city Lae celebrates Independence Day
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A flag-lowering ceremony held in the capital of Port Moresby on Saturday concluded Papua New Guinea’s 42nd Independence anniversary celebrations. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A man from Menyamya in Morobe travelled from his district to Lae in his traditional attire at the weekend to celebrate […]
Read More →PMC’s Professor Robie and Gadjah Mada team in Indonesian academic exchange
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by Pacific Media Centre Professor David Robie, director of the Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, and seven academics from Indonesia’s Universitas Gadjah Mada will be on exchange next month in the first communication and publication research collaboration of its kind in New Zealand. The seven academics from Yogyakarta, […]
Read More →Callamard slams $26 state budget for Philippine human rights body
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz UN Rapporteur Agnes Callamard … Human Rights Commission “cannot deliver on its mandate without an appropriate budget”. Image: Lito Boras/Rappler By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila United Nations Rapporteur Agnes Callamard has slammed the P1000 (NZ$26) budget that the House of Representatives voted to give the Philippine Commission […]
Read More →Journalist faces defamation probe over Indonesia’s treatment of West Papua posting
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Indonesian journalist and documentary filmmaker Dandhy Dwi Laksono … his message on Facebook about Megawati Sukarnoputri and Aung San Suu Kyi lands him in strife. Image: Tirto By Mong Palatino of Global Voices Indonesian police in East Java are investigating a veteran journalist for comparing former President Megawati […]
Read More →Indonesian police probe funding for group accused of ‘hate hoaxes’
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Saracen syndicate accused of creating and spreading hoax news and hate speech for money in Indonesia. Image: Jakarta Post Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Indonesia’s National Police continue to dig deeper into the Saracen group, an online syndicate accused of creating and spreading hoax news and hate speech for money, […]
Read More →Papuan landowners in PNG to receive first LNG project royalties of K15m
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Boera village in Central province landowners from the PNG LNG Project to receive royalties. Video: EMTV News By Meriba Tulo in Boera village, Papua New Guinea After more than three years and 200 shipments, landowners of Boera village in Papua New Guinea’s Central province have became the first […]
Read More →Murdoch press in Australia linked to deforestation in Indonesia
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Campaigners from Australian advocacy group Markets for Change hand out parody copies of The Australian newspaper to News Corp staff in Sydney to raise awareness over the deforestation issue. Image: Markets for Change By Vaidehi Shah Environmental campaigners have accused The Australian and Courier-Mail newspapers in regional Queensland […]
Read More →Pangu Pati opposition bloc defects to O’Neill’s PNG government
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Defection … Pangu Pati’s Sam Basil (left) and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill making the announcement yesterday. Image: Loop PNG Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk After two weeks of controversy, Pangu Pati leader Sam Basil and most of his party have split with Papua New Guinea’s Opposition and defected to […]
Read More →Elite Rangers captain killed as battle for Marawi rages on
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Filipino Colonel Romeo Brawner gives Day 112 updates on the battle for Marawi City, Mindanao. Video: Rappler By Carmela Fonbuena in Marawi City, Philippines A captain of the elite Philippine Army Scout Rangers force was killed as he led his men in a major operation in Marawi City […]
Read More →Moana Te Reo film world premiere tonight in Māori language week
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk In celebration of New Zealand’s Māori Language Week, the Māori reversioning of the blockbuster Disney movie Moana will premiere tonight in Auckland. Original cast members Rachel House, Temuera Morrison and Jemaine Clement star alongside Jaedyn Randell, who plays Moana, and Te Kāea presenter Piripi […]
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