Suva, Fiji News

Asia Pacific News.Net Wednesday 16th December, 2009 More than 80 percent of Fiji was without electricity and nearly 4,000 people remained in evacuation centres Wednesday in the wake of Cyclone Mick, according to reports from the capital Suva.

From Suva to Somalia, Pakistan to the Philippines and everywhere in between, New Zealand Red Cross humanitarian aid workers operating around the world won't have much time to stop for Santa this Christmas.

Wellington 15 December 2009. - " UN Children's Fund staff are providing essential emergency supplies in the wake of a category two cyclone that hit Fiji, leaving four people dead, several missing, and thousands displaced from their homes.

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand has granted its first ever Human Rights Defender Award to Shamima Ali, Executive Director of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre in Suva, Fiji.

Cyclone Mick has blown past Lautoka and is expected to be more than 100km south of the capital, Suva by dawn tomorrow.

The UN Children's Fund is standing by to respond to the emergency needs of children and families in Fiji as Cyclone Mick makes its way over the country.

This is the chance for me to give something back to the country of my birth. Suzy Vulaca Kraintz, who is one of the four overseas based singers that will be featuring at the Give Back to Fiji Charity Concert tomorrow, is a Suva bred mother of 1 who used to attend at Gospel High School.

UPTOWN Boxing Stable's Gyan Singh is Ghanaian Joseph Kwadjo's trainer in Fiji. Kwadjo's manager Mustapha Khattab said some of Fiji's best boxers train at Uptown Stable in Toorak and were ideal training partners for Kwadjo.

One of the case involving former Post Fiji Executives Peni Mau, Mahendra Patel and Direndra Prasad has been transferred to the Suva High Court.

Danish Minister of UN Climate Change Conference Connie Hedegaard receives a gift from Fiji activist Leah Wickham in the Bella center of Copenhagen after the opening ceremony of the 15th session of the COP15 Climate Talks FIJI'S Leah Wickham, 24, sobbed as she pleaded with world leaders at the climate change meeting in Copenhagen to save her ...

Monday 7 December 2009, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva Regional Office, Fiji - " - CEDAW enables the full and complete development of a country through maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields,' said the President of Nauru, the Hon.

Monday, 7 December 2009, 4:16 pm Press Release: Melissa Kent Annie Goldson to screen An Island Calling at AHA Film Festival Annie Goldson has been selected to screen her acclaimed documentary An Island Calling at the fourth American Historical Association Film Festival in San Diego this coming January.

The second leg of the Digicel Suva 7's next weekend at Churchill Park has attracted well known clubs in the country that once ruled the 7s rugby code.

The Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption yesterday made an application in the Suva High court to consolidate charges against former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and Former Manager of Native Land Trust Board Kalivati Bakani.

DESPITE being the only female entrant, 10-year-old Lorraine Mulan wants to win top honours at the U10 Suva Tennis Association Championship today.

A STAY order application on the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption proceedings against former Airports Fiji Limited chief executive officer Ratu Sakiusa Tuisolia will now be heard next year.

Former Fiji Electricity Authority boss Rokoseru Nabalarua has been appointed by the new owners of BP South West Pacific Ltd to head the proposed Fiji subsidiary of the oil business.

Fiji Ports Cooperation Limited wants to remove all the unused fishing vessels that have been docked at the Suva Harbour for quite some time.

THE young Drifters II side from Makoi continues to head turns in the Suva Volleyball Association club games.

Members of the Tongan community at the South Pacific Pageant in Suva, Fiji came together in an unusual show of support for their pageant queen by lying on the ground to form a walkway for her to the stage.