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Chinese Government Insecure with a Bainimarama Chip on its Shoulder

The world has accepted that China is emerging as a great power; it is a pity that it still does not always act as one FOR a country that prides itself on its “peaceful rise”, it was an odd way to celebrate a birthday.…
Women can replace Fiji Military Forces UN Peacekeepers

Washington, Oct. 1 -- In preventing violence against women and girls in Liberia, Indian women peacekeepers have set an example that must be emulated in UN peacekeeping missions across the world, Secretary of State Hillar…
DISASTERS AID AND THE CURSE IN THE PACIFIC

DURING the bleak days of a diabolically cold and long winter, the thought of a short holiday on a Pacific island kept many a Wellingtonian going. Blue skies, gentle breezes, azure seas and golden sands are every travel a…
New Zealand to intervene if Frank Bainimarama turns Nasty

Iran and Libya are being ridiculed because they have used an opportunity to lambast the United Nations security council for what, in their opinion, are gross injustices over many years. A study of history bears out that…
Fiji Excluded from Commonwealth Finance Meet

COMMONWEALTH finance ministers will concentrate on the global financial crisis during their three-day meeting, which starts in Limassol today. The agenda has been divided in three parts, each dealing with a differe…
IMF WORLD BANK DO NOT HAVE MORAL AUTHORITY TO LEND FIJI MONEY

“When a corrupt governmental regime borrows money in the name of the state, and then steals or squanders the proceeds, must the future citizens of that country repay the loan?The law says yes, but the moral instinct o…
The Commonwealth Mad FRANK and Terrorists

MOVES are afoot to have Fiji banned from next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The Commonwealth ministerial group has met in New York and agreed to ask the Commonwealth Games Federation to review Fiji's participa…
United States GPOI FIJI Sanctions Live and Kicking

Phnom Penh - The United States has reaffirmed its backing of Cambodia to host an annual multilateral exercise next year to train peacekeepers for UN and regional peace support operations, according to Cambodia's defence…
Australian has a Chat with Frank at the UN

A number of informal meetings have been taking place on the sidelines of the annual gathering at the UN. As our chief political correspondent Karen Middleton has discovered, climate change and the future of Pacific Isl…
Economic Doom in the South Pacific - ADB

Economic growth in the Pacific will slow sharply in 2009, with five economies in the region expected to contract as the global economic slump continues to erode incomes from tourism and remittances, says a major new repo…