Fiji Travel News

Australia and New Zealand showed no signs of the diplomatic row with Fiji today as their governments' representatives turned up with other dignitaries at the Fiji Remembrance Day service in Suva.

MISS South Pacific Pageant contestant Merewalesi Nailatikau hopes to do her best while representing Fiji in the contest.

James Batley was expelled along with New Zealand's envoy last week by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

ON HIS WAY: Fiji's acting head of mission, Kuliniasi Savou, arrives at the high commission in Wellington.

New Zealand head of mission Todd Cleaver wore a traditional sulu - a wrap-around garment like a skirt worn by both men and women in Fiji - to Nadi International Airport for his precipitate departure from the islands.

One last time ... Sireli Ledua holds his son, Taniela, 1, before the team departed the Peninsula International Hotel in Suva on their way to Nadi yesterday.

New Zealand's Acting High Commissioner Todd Cleaver is expected back home from Fiji sometime on Thursday, as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

FIJI'S acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation.

AN academic from Canberra's Australian National University has been taken into custody in Fiji, the university says.

The government is expected to expel the head of the Fiji high commission after both New Zealand and Australian envoys where expelled from Fiji.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully tonight confirmed that New Zealand's Acting Head of Mission in Fiji has been ordered out of the country by the interim government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

The Government is now considering what action to take in response to Fiji's expulsion of acting New Zealand Deputy High Commissioner Todd Cleaver yesterday.

Update: 10:44AM FIJIAN Holdings Limited paid $3.7million for consultancy fees, air fares, bank charges and management fees to Hindustani Petroleum for the failed purchase of BP Southwest Pacific.

Mohammed Fahim Faiyaz connects right jab against Zahid Khan during the Boxing Fiji Association amatuer program last Saturday BOXING Commission of Fiji director Allen Harris says there is a need to hold regular amateur programs around the country in a bid to unearth new talents.

The organising committee of the South Pacific Pageant will be responsible for the contestants when they arrive next month.

The Fiji government and tourism stakeholders said on Tuesday they expect tourism numbers to boom with increased airlines servicing Fiji and a direct flight from China to the Fiji resort city of Nadi.

I guess this is where some of the Fiji Visitors Bureau money is going. Certainly the prices of trips to the resorts sounds very good and the articles are the usual mix of fun and description even promoting Fiji's bad roads as 'part of the adventure'. Rory Gibson knows Fiji well and there is a lot of information.

Tourists enjoy the beautiful weather in Suva after arriving on board the cruise liner Amsterdam yesterday BUSINESS owners in the capital are optimistic that the high number of tourist arrrivals will boost trade.

SUVA : Three of Fiji's leading media organisations have lost their full membership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association .

FRIENDLY FACE: Plastic surgeon Dr Murray Beagley is heading a medical team that will travel to Fiji and carry out operations for those who couldna t otherwise access treatment.