No debate about Vanuatu’s China TV plan and Radio Vanuatu coverage
OPINION: Vanuatu Daily Digest has raised the issue of negligible public awareness of Radio Vanuatu (VBTC) planned developments with a Chinese company over extending...
Fiji baby survives 14 hour cyclone Winston ordeal in esky
By Serafina Silaitoga of the Fiji Times
Eight-month-old Waseroma Rasavou survived 14 hours in an esky cooler as the savage tropical storm battered a remote...
One Jakarta terror bombing suspect still at large, says police chief
One of the suspects directly involved in the bombing attacks in the Thamrin Boulevard business district in the heart of central Jakarta early last...
NZ sending more Defence Force engineers to assist Fiji
By Ashutosh Singh of Newswire Fiji
More assistance from New Zealand is expected to arrive in the country today.
This was confirmed by a representative of New...
Rakiraki town hopes to get business going again next week
By Anish Chand in Rakiraki, Fiji
Rakiraki town, in one of the worst cyclone Winston-ravaged areas in Fiji's northwestern Viti Levu island, is expected to...
11 prisoners shot dead in mass PNG jail breakout
By Junior Ukaha and Pisai Gumar in Lae and Michael Guba in Port Moresby
Eleven prison inmates in Papua New Guinea have been shot dead...
Stop politicising relief help, warns Seruiratu – 62,000 homeless
By Verleshwar Singh and Peni Shute of Newswire Fiji
Fiji's Minister for National Disaster Management, Colonel Inia Seruiratu, has lashed out at political parties that...
Vanuatu opposition raises pardon for 14 jailed MPs issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Opposition has suggested to the Head of State, President Baldwin Lonsdale, that any decision to free 14 former...
Vanuatu too slow to act over cyclone disaster planning, claims Kalsakau
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu's Opposition has expressed sadness with the government and the people of Fiji, and people of Vanuatu and students...
Prepared? Yes, but devastation of Winston was overwhelming
As aid has started to flow to parts of Fiji left devastated by severe tropical cyclone Winston, the Fiji Times chief editor says that...
Ovalau survivors tell their horror stories as $15m aid flows to...
By Akuila Cama of Fiji One News
One of 42 people who perished in Fiji from severe tropical cyclone Winston was a 72-year-old woman, Selai...
Veronica Hatutasi: A journalist’s insights into the Bougainville war
Veronica Hatutasi on difficulties facing authors in Papua New Guinea in an EMTV interview.
By Adam Elliott
Journalist Veronica Hatutasi has recently launched her new book...
Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all...
On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...
100 homes damaged, people from Korovou village cry for help
About 100 hundred homes in Korovou village in Tavua have been damaged.
There have been no deaths in the community, but the peoople have pleaded...
Cyclone ‘flattened’ 10 villages in Fiji’s Ra – now 22,181 evacuees
By Shayal Devi of The Fiji Times
Fiji's coastal district of Nakorotubu, Ra, which includes more than 10 villages and a population of more than...
How ISIS extremist media have hijacked religion and language
By Dr Alan Knight in Sydney
Moderate Muslims were losing the media war with ISIS, according to leading Turkish journalist, Kerim Balci.
”Authentic” Muslims were losing...
42 dead and relief focuses on hardest-hit, says Fiji UN...
By Lice Movono-Rova of Newswire Fiji
Forty-two people have died as a result of severe tropical cyclone Winston, says Fiji’s Ambassador to the United Nations Peter...
Koro’s nightmare – no chance for the people against Winston’s fury
When help finally arrived on Koro Island and the media flew in to bear witness, the scenes were of total devastation.
The sign pointing to...
Danger lurks but tales of heroism are emerging, says Fiji Times...
Gradually it is sinking in with the people of Fiji how “powerful and ruthless” severe tropical cyclone Winston has really been with entire villages...
