Fiji

An Australian mining company says it's very optimistic it will get the green light to mine sand along Fiji's Sigatoka River.

A guidebook uniquely designed to help Pacific governments report on human rights is being finalised this week in Fiji.

The men's and women's Olympic sevens champions will take to the field today for the time since their Rio success.

The judge in Fiji's trial of eight suspended policemen and a soldier charged with rape is today due to give his verdict

An advisor to two former Fiji Prime Ministers says the New Zealand police have asked him to tone down his Facebook page which posts messages criticising the current Fiji government.

Reports from Fiji say the Commerce Commission is concerned about claims on Facebook that people in Fiji are to enjoy visa-free access to Australia.

Fiji's elections supervisor Mohammed Saneem's has been accused of using social media in a bullying and partisan way.

A complaint has been made to Fiji's media authority over the chief of Fiji's public broadcaster calling some commentators idiots.

Assessors in the Vilikesa Soko trial in Fiji have found five suspended police officers and a soldier guilty of his rape and sexual assault.

Fiji Television has apologised to the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation over a story involving FBC's chief executive officer Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.

The deputy director-general of the Pacific Community welcomes Fiji's bid to preside over next year's UN Climate Change Conference, COP23.

Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama has met his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Israel.

Fiji TV has been asked by FBC chief executive Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to retract a story which he says wrongly portrays him calling social media commentators in Fiji "idiots."

The Fiji women's rugby team are eying further history after advancing to the final stage of qualifying for the 2017 World Cup.

A workshop in Fiji this week is aiming to improve the way police around the Pacific deal with violence against women.

Fiji is developing its defence links with Indonesia in addition to police ties.

The opposition in Fiji has questioned why the country's police commissioner is going away to study at a war college for a year.

Three new police complaints have been filed against the chief executive of the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation accusing him of further inciting communal antagonism.