Fiji

Sixteen people accused of sedition in Fiji have had their trial dates moved back to February next year.

A court in Fiji has acquitted the local government minister, Parveen Kumar Bala, who had been charged with dangerous driving causing death.

The veteran American golfer Brandt Snedeker will be the headline name at the third edition of the Fiji International at Natadola Bay.

Building of a new Tukuraki village has officially started it was wrecked by a landslide four years ago.

A new report says Australia and New Zealand need to adopt a more equal approach to re-engaging with Fiji militarily.

A Fiji village that was battered by a landslide in 2012, slammed by that year's Cyclone Evan and then again by Cyclone Winston, is being relocated.

Over $US9.5 million will be released in grant funding for education, transportation and health projects.

More than 600,000 people are registered to vote in Fiji after the country's latest voter registration drive.

Around 300 Fijian peacekeepers are preparing to depart for the Golan Heights.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says it accepts the decision by leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group to defer its bid for full membership.

Fiji's Human Rights and Anti Discrimination Commission says it is speaking out on brutality and torture.

A former senior regional banking executive has been appointed as the chair of the Fiji Sugar Corporation.

Fiji's government has signed a US$50 million loan agreement with the World Bank to assist in ongoing recovery needs after Tropical Cyclone Winston.

A youth-in-work programme in Solomon Islands will be replicated in the rest of Melanesia, if a training programme is successful.

Fiji's health minister says a lack of ambulances across the country is of real concern.

The Fiji Olympic Committee will enforce strict rules to ensure the safety of its athletes at the Rio Games.

The New Zealand Defence Force said they were continuing a successful run with their joint fisheries patrols in the waters of Fiji, Niue, Tokelau and Tuvalu.

Fiji sprinter Banuve Tabakaucoro made a tough and courageous decision to pull out of the Rio Olympics, according the country's Chef de Mission Cathy Wong.

A human rights advocate in Fiji says it is worrying that old pictures of police brutality don't appear to have been investigated until they were made public.

Giving the United Liberation Movement of West Papua membership to the Melanesian Spearhead Group is the most responsible action any Melanesian Leader can do, according to Fiji's Opposition Leader.