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The men’s gold and women’s bronze medals meant everything to Fiji, which has the highest per-capita Covid infection rate in the worldWhen the Fijian men’s sevens team beat New Zealand to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the entire nation ce…
Read MoreMedia experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impactFacebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and industry analysts ha…
Read MoreThree-year-old boy among those missing in floodwaters in the country’s northern and western islandsOne person has died, and five, including a three-year-old boy, are still missing after Cyclone Ana pummelled Fiji on Sunday, just over a month after cate…
Read MoreFiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presi…
Read MoreCountry’s expected ascension to human rights council presidency is being challenged by a China-backed bid by BahrainFor a small country in the South Pacific that joined the UN’s powerful human rights council for the first time in 2019, Fiji has made gi…
Read MoreWhile the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic has so far spared the Pacific, its economies are in free-fall, the region’s chief diplomat warnsBeyond the health and economic crises of Covid-19, the global pandemic has the potential to cause political instabi…
Read MorePunishment of Sodelpa party for factional infighting leaves parliament with just three opposition members on the eve of a major budget debateThe political situation in Fiji, yet to fully recover from the effects of the 2006 coup, is in a tailspin once …
Read MoreVideo of the alleged assault caused a national uproar and points to deeper problem with violence in Pacific nation, say expertsA horrific video of high school students beating a classmate that went viral in Fiji last week has prompted calls for a natio…
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