A country burns: Meanwhile, chiefs argue over a name

IN April, I caught up with a close friend in Melbourne, an Indo-Fijian woman who left Fiji 30 years ago in search of a better life.

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Building a better world: Safe, fair, inclusive

IS it any wonder people are in thrall to the power and vicarious thrill of digital technologies when many acclaimed films and TV series extol the apparent virtues of digital surveillance?

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We must unite: Regional approach to fuel crisis

A FLEMISH proverb often attributed to Benjamin Franklin says: “We must hang together, else we shall most assuredly hang alone.”

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No other way

RALPH Regenvanu has consistently spoken out on the issue of climate change at home in Vanuatu, in the region and on the global stage.

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France will try

LAST month, France missed the chance to win the Rugby Six Nations Championship Grand Slam, but it continued strengthening its

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Time for calm in Vanuatu

VANUATU has officially welcomed an economic mission to Port Vila from New Caledonia’s Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et

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Tick a box

WHEN you pick up a bag of desiccated coconut at your local grocer in Suva, Port Vila or Honiara, you probably don't think

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Taiwan, uni team up

THE Taiwan Technical Mission (TTM) and Fiji National University’s (FNU) Koronivia Campus have partnered to establish a student training farm to strengthen agricultural education and support long-term food security in

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Why private sector is key

Veteran food technologist Dr Richard Beyer on why the private sector, niche products, and knowing what we're good at are the

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You can do better

A SURVEY of just under 300 young people across four Pacific Island nations has produced interesting, and some would say, telling

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Growth and work

PACIFIC leaders talk jobs. Young people hear promises, but an economist hears a different problem: the region is creating

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