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No Chinese base for Fiji land
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USP Council meets today
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Ten years ago Islands Business named the PNA, an acronym for the parties to the Nauru Agreement, as our Pacific ‘Organisation of the Year’, a…
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Here in the West, I sometimes suffer from an occasional “mental lightening” shock – even on a perfect sunny day. Most often, the source of my mental…
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"We trust the results, we just don't like them"
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In 1971, the leaders of five independent island nations established the South Pacific Forum, with support from Australia and New Zealand. They wanted…
February 24, 2021
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February 24, 2021
Sailing into the future: the decarbonisation agenda
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Pacific Island nations risk being left behind in the race to decarbonise the shipping industry, despite leading the way on this issue at the…
February 24, 2021
Boosting the Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy
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February 2021 marks the first anniversary of the endorsement of the Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy (PAfTS 2020-2025). It was not the first strategy…
February 24, 2021
Obese? Fat? No!
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In early 2014, a group of ‘fairly decent’ runners living and working out of Fiji’s capital, Suva decided to pursue the idea of creating a platform to…
February 24, 2021
Jewel of the Islands
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The Maria Daulato kei Jisu Na Gone Sau mai Nasareci (Immaculate Maria and Jesus the Child King of Nazareth) is a masterpiece in mosaic depicting…
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