Kyle Evans
Kyle Evans is a reporter with the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. He has worked as a newsreader for ARN and began his career at newspaper titles in North Queensland and Ballarat.
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Australian-based boxer dies from head injury days after maiden title bout
By Kyle Evans, Doug Dingwall and the Pacific Local Journalism Network's Nick Sas
Family and friends have paid tribute to boxer Lemuel Silisia who died in hospital days after competing in a professional bout in regional New South Wales.
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People using bare hands to recover villagers in PNG landslide, with fears of up to 2,000 people buried
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic
Papua New Guinea's government has warned the death toll from Friday's landslide in Enga province could jump dramatically.
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Recruiter says there's 'a lot of angst' as farmer demand for seasonal workers falls
Demand for Pacific Island seasonal workers is falling after a post-COVID boom in numbers, and some say one reason is changes requiring labourers receive at least 30 hours of work each week.
After 101 treks across the Kokoda Track, one guide says it's too full of 'death traps' to go back
Charlie Lynn led trekkers across the rugged Kokoda Track for three decades — but after one trip last year, he decided the mountainous trail had fallen too far into disrepair for him to return.
Tonga set to become the first Pacific nation to pioneer the use of wave energy technology
Tonga looks set to become the first Pacific country to experiment with wave technology when work commences on a power wave park later this year.
The hunt is on for a rare interstellar meteorite, which scientists speculate could be artificially made
Believed to have crashed into the sea off PNG's Manus Island, the rare interstellar meteor was one of the first ever documented, and it has scientists questioning if it could be artificially made.
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Bernard graduated in 2020. More than 100 job applications later, he is still unemployed
Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby is grappling with a youth unemployment crisis, with some young people applying for hundreds of jobs after graduating from university, with only a handful of interviews to show for it.
Could a third La Niña in a row spell trouble for the Pacific?
Some Pacific Island nations are still recovering from floods or facing severe drought conditions, and there is little reprieve in sight as a third La Niña is set to exacerbate extreme weather conditions across the region.
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Construction's begun on a major Australia-backed defence site in a Fijian town. These locals only just heard about it
Construction is underway on a multi-million-dollar Fiji maritime facility funded by the Australian government, but locals in the town of Lami say they weren't consulted and worry about the naval base being so close to their homes.
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