Move to bring back customary marine rights is celebrated, but concerns remain about potential effect on tourism and lack of clarity about how it might work ...

In December 2024, after years of debate among Fiji’s political leaders, the country’s parliament passed a law establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The initiative was a bid to draw a ...

Since a new government came to power in Fiji on December 24, 2022, following national elections, there has been much to unpack. On Christmas Eve Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka was elected by MPs as Fiji’s ...

2009 September - The Commonwealth fully suspends Fiji after the refusal of the military government to bow to demands to call elections by 2010. It is only the second full suspension in the ...

LONDON: The Supreme Court of Fiji Islands ruled that the Prime Minister must give proportional representation in his cabinet to all parties with more than 10 per cent of the seats in the House of ...

We all stay in hotels often, but how often do we read the compendium in the room and take the time if the information is there to understand the history and social context of the country we are ...

It took 60 years, but Fiji finally earned an Olympic medal. The Fiji rugby sevens team took the gold medal on Thursday, defeating Great Britain, a notable and successful rugby club, 43-7. It is the ...

1643 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is the first European to visit the islands. 1830s - Western Christian missionaries begin to arrive. 1840s-50s - Christian convert chief Cakobau gains control of most ...