Fiji’s AG welcomes relaxed provident fund rules for cyclone aid
By Calvin Prasad in Suva
Fiji's Attorney-General and Minister for Finance Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has welcomed the relaxation of requirements for Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF)...
Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies
Reviewed by Jeremy Agar of CAFCA and published on Nuclear Free and Independent Day.
EYES OF FIRE: The Last Voyage Of The Rainbow Warrior,
by David...
Free lunch for some Fiji schools, cyclone classroom damage $42m
By Maggie Boyle in Suva
Students attending schools managed by TISI Sangam, Fiji's largest non-government organisation, in some cyclone-ravaged areas will be provided lunch for...
Four Corners probe: ‘This mud wave has killed anything alive’
A CNN report at the time of the Bento Rodrigues disaster broadcast on 6 November 2015. Source: Noticias Esporte De Hoje
ABC Four Corners investigative...
Behind the Blockade : A ‘prisoner’ mother’s struggle to remove barriers
Behind the Blockade, by Veronica Hatutasi. Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Word Publishing Company. 233 pages hardcover. ISBN 978-9980-89-024-5.
Reviewed by Anna Solomon
Behind the Blockade, by...
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...