Full Coverage: Fiji

06/06/2008 Fijian civilians, activists, and opposition political leaders have endured two years of increasingly harsh human rights abuses since the military overthrew the government in 2006, blogs Ryan Bodman while traveling the Pacific.
From: Aotearoa Independent Media Center

05/23/2007 A Fijian Provincial Council has welcomed a presentation from Greenpeace on the benefits of turning the Great Astrolabe Reef into a marine reserve.

12/06/2006 SUVA, Dec 5 (IPS) - Fiji's leading daily newspaper and sole television station have suspended operations after attempts to censor their news by the military, which seized control of the country on Tuesday, ousting the elected government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.

11/30/2006 United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has added his voice to the growing concern about a possible coup against the government of Fiji. Pacific states fear the ramifications of a coup both for Fiji and the region as a whole.

07/17/2006 Radio content must be made more relevant to its audience to preserve the medium’s market share, told a Pacific media executive an international broadcasting conference in Singapore recently.

06/08/2006 Fiji will today - World Ocean Day - receive the Global Ocean Conservation Award for its plans to establish a network of protection zones that will cover 30 per cent of its waters by 2020 — one of the largest areas of protected ocean in the world.

06/07/2006 How can a single mother in rural Fiji resolve conflicts for the UK government? At a British Foreign Office conference, Rosemary Bechler catches up with "suitcase radio" pioneer Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls to discuss women's roles in politics and peace.

04/12/2006 RA Province plans to go high tech with the development of e-Ra strategy within the next three years.

02/05/2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 4 (OneWorld) - Water, water everywhere and we are duped into buying it bottled.

07/14/2005 The research titled 'GIS as a Planning Support Tool for Community Integrated Tourism Development: A Pilot Study for Fiji Islands and the South Pacific' is a pilot study which worked in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Transport, Fiji to develop the database and examine its applicability for wider implementation both in Fiji and for government and other development agencies (donors, NGOs, QUANGOS) throughout the South Pacific region.

07/14/2005 The research titled "Maximizing the Benefits of ICT/Multimedia in the South Pacific: Cultural Pedagogy and Usability Factors" was started to determine how Educational ICT/Multimedia can be developed so as to be responsive to the particular needs of the region...

01/18/2005 Another exciting initiative is about to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a women’s media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile women’s community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific volunteer team takes to the road with their “radio in a suitcase” in Fiji.

05/30/2003 The issue of child labour should not be tackled by just punishing the employers says Shamima Ali, the coordinator of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre. Instead, problems of poverty and school dropouts have to be dealt with first.

03/26/2003 Fiji's declaration of its territorial waters as a whale sanctuary was welcomed by a leading international environmental organisation yesterday.

02/24/2003 The value of quality science education to developing countries is widely accepted and has prompted an investment in school science education. But concerns about instructional quality and student achievement are becoming acute.

03/19/2002 Trade suspensions have succeeded in prompting the United Arab Emirates, Russian Federation, Fiji and Vietnam to give better protection to endangered species, according to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species.

02/19/2002 Fijian coup-leader George Speight's life has been spared by the country's president - following a death sentence delivered by the High Court yesterday - in a bid to avoid more ethnic strife in the troubled Pacific island group.

09/10/2001 There has been a big swing against moderates in Fiji's recently concluded elections, as race-based politics takes centre stage in the formation of a new government.

07/04/2001 Plans by a Japanese mining firm to open an extraction plant for low-grade copper in Fiji would lead to the dumping of waste in ecologically fragile areas along the coral coast, says a watchdog.

04/25/2001 Age-old knowledge of the world's botanical riches is being probed in the hope of finding cures for AIDS and cancer. But, as Matthew Brace reports, the practice is often far from ethical.