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Ganesh Chand to Semi Tukana, 'Just because you are I-Taukei, you have NO automatic TICKET to get the TENDER'. iTaukei Tender Expectations and Questions Over Tukana’s Fiji Airways Debt Collection - Any Update?
Fiji Leaks
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August 12, 2025
*As debates flare over procurement fairness in Rabuka’s Fiji - fuelled by Ganesh Chand’s pointed Facebook remark that ‘being indigenous’ is no excuse to skip tenders - attention also turns to the progress, or lack of updates, on Semi Tukana’s...
Business students create product to fight sun exposure
Times Online
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August 12, 2025
Members of Ormiston Senior College’s Viti Initiative Young Enterprise Scheme business group. Photo supplied An innovative group of east Auckland business students are back in the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) for the second year, with a new...
Baggage offloaded on Fiji Airways Vava’u flight amid weight restrictions
The Fiji Times
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August 12, 2025
Passengers on Fiji Airways’ Nadi–Vava’u, Tonga service today faced baggage delays after the airline was forced to offload all economy class checked luggage due to weight restrictions. The airline confirmed the changes affected Flight FJ275, citing...
NZ and Fiji Business Councils to host joint trade and investment conference
The Fiji Times
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August 12, 2025
The New Zealand Fiji and Fiji New Zealand Business Councils are once again paving the way for businesses across both countries to explore trade and investment gateways. The councils will jointly host a conference at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland...
Fiji hosts game-changing maritime office
FBC News
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August 12, 2025
Source : Fiji Government/ Facebook The Pacific faces urgent threats from climate change, pollution, and weak maritime governance. The new International Maritime Organization (IMO) Regional Presence Office (RPO) in Suva aims to tackle these...
Bank helps enhance med storage room
The Fiji Times
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August 12, 2025
THE construction of a new dedicated storeroom for essential medicines has been completed at the Nayavu Nursing Station in Tailevu, a community project by BSP Financial Group (Fiji) Pte Ltd (BSP). The facility, one of BSP’s many community projects,...
Prime Minister of Fiji Expresses Interest in Strengthening …
UzDaily
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Uzbekistan 12/08/2025 Prime Minister of Fiji Expresses Interest in Strengthening Relations with Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka has expressed his country’s interest in further strengthening...
GSTC2025 conference in Fiji focuses on sustainable tourism challenges
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
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August 11, 2025
GSTC2025 in Fiji gathered global experts to address sustainable tourism, highlighting coastal and island challenges, community engagement, and climate resilience. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) concluded its 2025 Global Sustainable...
Byrne confident in Flying Fijians mix for PNC
FBC News
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August 11, 2025
Mick Byrne [File Photo] Flying Fijians head coach Mick Byrne believes the Pacific Nations Cup will be a crucial platform to strengthen squad depth and blood new talent. The squad will begin their campaign with two weeks of training in Fiji, giving...
PACIFIC FIBER CONFERENCE | Fiji’s bold digital future
The Fiji Times
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August 12, 2025
FIJI is embracing a bold digital future alongside our Pacific brothers and sisters Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communications Manoa Kamikamica highlighted this while opening the Pacific Cyber Week at the Sheraton Fiji Golf & Beach...
Women’s Fund Fiji awards $970k in new grants to drive gender equality
The Fiji Times
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August 12, 2025
Women’s Fund Fiji (WFF) has announced 15 new grants worth $970,445 to empower women’s groups across the country. The funding will support initiatives tackling gender-based violence, boosting women’s leadership, advancing economic empowerment,...
International Maritime Organization opens regional office in Fiji to boost Pacific maritime cooperation
The Pacific Island Times
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August 11, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff The International Maritime Organization has inaugurated a new Regional Presence Office in Suva, Fiji, marking a milestone for regional maritime cooperation and capacity development in the Pacific. The Regional...
Who pays and Who receives? Finance talks dominate the final stretch…
Pacific News Service
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As delegates enter the final stretch of the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) in Geneva, Switzerland and with just four days left before the gavel falls, decisions over effective, just and...
Why Maptitude Is the Best Business Mapping Platform for Australia, On Every Platform
iTWire
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August 12, 2025
GUEST OPINION: For Australian professionals working with geographic data, whether business development analysts, consultants, or logistics managers, the choice of mapping platform has a direct impact on strategic decision-making. Maptitude is the...
Fiji receives five metric tonnes of black-eyed cowpea seeds from India as agricultural assistance
The Assam Tribune
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August 11, 2025
Suva, Aug 11: In a significant step towards solidarity with its Indo-Pacific partners, the Indian mission handed over five metric tonnes of cowpea seeds as humanitarian assistance to the Fijian government on Monday. This was the first tranche of...
Life of renowned island music legend Fiji honored in hometown memorial
Hawaii News Now
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August 12, 2025
SUVA, Fiji (HawaiiNewsNow) - Musicians, family, and mourners from around the South Pacific gathered Tuesday in Fiji to honor the life of renowned international music superstar George Brooks Veikoso, more commonly known as Fiji. The 55-year-old...
TE Pacific Group and Lightspeed Fiji join forces to advance ICT services in Fiji
Business Advantage PNG
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August 11, 2025
Dovi Kanaimawi, Lightspeed PNG Country Manager and Robbie Huxley, Managing Director of TE PNG. Credit: BAI The partnership will combine TE PNG’s proven track record in delivering large-scale ICT and critical communications projects across the...
Starlink rollout to connect 111,300 Fijians in remote communities
The Fiji Times
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August 11, 2025
More than 111,000 Fijians living in some of the country’s most remote and underserved areas will soon gain reliable internet and voice services through the deployment of Starlink satellite technology, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for...
Mukhsinhodja Abdurakhmanov Becomes Uzbekistan’s First Ambassador to Fiji
UzDaily
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Uzbekistan 11/08/2025 Mukhsinhodja Abdurakhmanov Becomes Uzbekistan’s First Ambassador to Fiji Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Mukhsinhodja Abdurakhmanov, Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to Japan and concurrently accredited to the Republic of Fiji,...
PNG calls for new trade deal with NZ, rejects PACER Plus…
Pacific News Service
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Papua New Guinea is urging New Zealand to engage in negotiations for a bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), arguing that current trade policies do not meet the unique economic needs and aspirations of PNG. Papua New...