Fiji News

SOUTH PACIFIC experts at a recent annual conference on the region were unable to see an end to the deteriorating political situation in Fiji.

SUVA: Fiji's military leader yesterday intensified his crackdown against perceived enemies of his regime, throwing out an Australian academic days after expelling the top envoys from New Zealand and Australia.

Three Fijians and an Indian businessman have been accused of running a human trafficking racket selling jobs in New Zealand.

The government of the People's Republic of China today handed over US$850,000 to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat towards several projects for Forum member countries The Chinese Ambassador to Fiji, H.E. Dr Han Zhiqiang handed over the funds to the Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade during a brief ceremony at the ...

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.

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

Fiji's acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau was sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation on Thursday.

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

Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 4:25 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government New Zealand responds to Fijian expulsion New Zealand's Acting Head of Mission in Fiji, Todd Cleaver, was formally declared Persona Non Grata by the interim regime early this afternoon and told to leave Fiji, Foreign Minister Murray McCully confirmed today.

Asia Pacific News.Net Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 Fiji's military ruler Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama gave the senior diplomats of New Zealand and Australia 24 hours to leave the country Tuesday and ordered his country's high commissioner in Canberra to return home.

The pawpaw looks ripe. Ready to eat. So do the bananas. And this supermarket, promising "We buy big - you save big", has a special on biscuits.

FIJI'S Zoheer Ahmad and Vikrant Chandra have bombed out of the Asia Amateur Championship after missing the cut at the Mission Hills Golf Club in China.

Fiji's Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has urged indigenous investment conglomerate Fijian Holdings Limited to take an innovative look into investment opportunities that will generate exports for Fiji, in the Pacific in particular.

Nasinu's Teimumu Moce shows her skills in volleyball during training at the National Stadium car park courts yesterday.

The Fiji Barbarians 7s team will not be part of the first series of the Digicel Suva 7s next weekend.

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.

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.

Tourism Fiji chairman Patrick Wong says extra seat capacity on the Fiji-Australia route through two Australian carriers Jetstar and V Australia will help brand Destination Fiji.

Moses Hicks of Fiji Water shows Lisa Tavisoro and her family members how to filter water at Sasa Village in Ba.

THERE has been a mechanism put in place by forum island leaders that will ensure Fiji is briefed about the process of negotiations discussed at the trade ministers meeting in Brisbane this week.