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Monday 19 May 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A meeting of the University of the South Pacific Council in Tonga is keeping the press at a distance, while it discusses what is understood to be important issues over the future leadership of the under-funded university, which has its main campus in Fiji.
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Monday 5 May 2008
Suva, Fiji
The Fiji Media Council is shocked and dismayed that on the eve of World Media Freedom day the interim Government should make such a mockery of its claim that the media in Fiji is free. While the media is still coming to terms with the deportation of Russell Hunter it is rocked by the deportation of the publisher of the Fiji Times, Evan Hannah.
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Tuesday 25 March 2008
Suva, Fiji
Former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says people in power can see the media as racist because of its criticism of their policies.
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Sunday 9 March 2008
Suva, Fiji
Fiji's self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama has tightened his grip on information in his country, deciding he alone should be the army's media spokesman.
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Sunday 9 March 2008
Suva, Fiji
The findings in a report on the media would not be accepted because it lacked credibility, the Fiji Media Council told Pacnews yesterday.
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Sunday 2 March 2008
Suva, Fiji
The Fiji Human Rights Commission has strongly recommended to the interim government not to renew existing work permits for expatriates in the media industry.
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Friday 29 February 2008
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
The Fiji government has ordered that Papua New Guinean Martha Waradin, wife of deported Fiji Sun newspaper publisher Russell Hunter, also leave the country with her daughter. By Harlene Joku
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Tuesday 26 February 2008
Suva, Fiji
The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) has strongly condemned the deportation to Australia of Fiji Sun Editor in Chief, Russell Hunter, by Fiji's interim government.
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Monday 25 February 2008
Suva, Fiji
Fiji's Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has included another local media publisher in his defamation lawsuit over reports published on allegations of tax evasion against him.
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Friday 22 February 2008
Paris, France
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Fiji appeal court's harassment of Leone Cabenatabua, the editor of the Fiji Sun, and Virisila Buadromo, the head of the Fiji Women's Rights Movement, who were summoned and warned by the court on 12 February because of an article quoting Buadromo in that day's issue criticising the military-led government's appointment of new judges to the court.
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Friday 15 February 2008
Suva, Fiji
Fiji Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) Deputy Commissioner George Langman says more prominent people are expected to face corruption-related charges.
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Thursday 14 February 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The body of a ship's engineer, Vai Vuetibula Pogiono (24), from Ono i Lau, Fiji, has been identified after being found washed up on the western foreshore of Queen Salote Wharf on Saturday morning, February 9.
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Wednesday 6 February 2008
Suva, Fiji
The Public Forum organized by the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre and the Pacific Centre for Public Integrity at the Holiday Inn was cut short today by an anonymous threat.
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Monday 4 February 2008
Suva, Fiji
A bomb scare forced the evacuation of the Holiday Inn, on Suva's Victoria Parade today for over two hours, during the first visit to the South Pacific by the head of Transparency International, Ms Huguette Labelle.
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Thursday 31 January 2008
Suva, Fiji
The operations officer for the Fiji battalion in Sinai, Major Ilai Moceica, is likely to be sent on the next flight home after a local media report misquoted him.
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Wednesday 30 January 2008
Paris, France
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Fiji TV reporter Emily Moli and cameraman Shalendra Datt for "disobeying a police order" on 23 January, when they went to cover a dispute between the principal and administration of Rishikul Sanatan high school in Nasinu.
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Monday 22 October 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
When Commodore Bainimarama, the Interim Prime Minister of Fiji, announced in Neiafu, Vava'u, on October 17 that Fiji will have a Parliamentary Election early in 2009, it was welcomed by Pacific Islands leaders who gave him their overwhelming support- but not the leaders of Australia and New Zealand, he explains in an interview in Tonga. By Pesi Fonua
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Friday 14 September 2007
London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Secretary-General's spokesperson, Mr Eduardo del Buey, has confirmed that the Secretary-General had spoken today to the Interim Minister of Finance of the Republic of Fiji Islands, Mr Mahendra Chaudhry, during which the Secretary-General reaffirmed the Commonwealth's concerns about developments in Fiji Islands.
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Friday 1 December 2006
Suva, Fiji
Fiji's military has denied outright of a breakthrough in mediation talks in New Zealand yesterday.
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Wednesday 4 August 2004
Nadi, Fiji
Non Government Organizations (NGOs) from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga and the Marshall Islands, meeting in Nadi today have called for a greater NGO role in Pacific Governments annual Budget processes. They have also put a strong case to have this participation properly funded by Government so that the voice of people in poverty and other disadvantaged groups may be heard at all points in the budget process.
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