A Vanuatu delegation and descendants in Fiji presented 10 piglets, fine Vanuatu mats, dalo and a kava plant to seek the forgiveness of the Fiji chiefs yesterday. Read more…

MILITARY commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama says the Government needs to stop and look around at the politically-created rut the nation has been forced into. Read more…

A CLASS One student and his three-year-old sister are dead after a house fire allegedly started by their mother early yesterday morning. Read more…

I have a special treat for all readers. A good friend of mine and long time golfing resident of Phuket has agreed to author a series of original articles about golf in Thailand. These articles will be published exclusively here... Read more…

Rolf Potts - Unexpected pleasures in one of Europe's most beautiful cities. And yes, good beer, too. Read more…

Fijian soldiers from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland have celebrated this year's Fiji Day in Midlothian Read more…

Fiji's 2007 Budget Address by the Finance Minister will be held on November 4 in a joint sitting of the Lower House and Senate Read more…

Fiji's new envoy to the United Nation, Dr Tupeni Baba says his posting as the country's representative to New York, has come as a surprise Read more…

Three children who were allegedly abducted from Papua New Guinea by their step mother will remain in Fiji unless the PNG government wants them returned Read more…

Two businessmen wanted by police for plotting the murder of a Nadi businessman last month have left the country Read more…

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry has warned of a possible derailment of the multi-party Cabinet Read more…

Fiji's High Court has ordered the five assessors in the trial of former agriculture permanent secretary to disregard Read more…

The Multi-Party Cabinet has approved downsizing Fiji's civil service by around 5000 positions Read more…

The Spice Islands of eastern Indonesia, conjure up images of galleons, emerald green jungle islands, amid turquoise seas. Australian comedienne, Pamela Stevenson, journied to Banda, with a gunboat full of bodyguards, to discover the truth about her great, great, grandfather, Salty Sam. Pamela tells her story of journeying to Banda, a few hours from Ambon, and [...] Read more…

Is it love they neighbor, or ‘those bloody neighbors’? When you’re talking about Indonesia and Australia, the latter seems most appropriate. A Sydney Morning Herald article asks if the 2 countries can ever see eye to eye and work together. I think Indonesia and Australia’s misunderstandings are a macro version of what we in Bali have [...] Read more…

A 36-year-old Australian has narrowly avoided jail in Cambodia for possessing three stone carvings illegally plucked from the famous temples at Angkor Wat. Steven Doyle from Sydney had been arrested and charged with trying to take culturally significant artifacts out of the country, three pieces of carved sandstone, allegedly taken from Angkor Wat and the nearby Bayon temple. Doyle's experience is a salutary caution to all travellers that "souvenirs" may not always be what they seem. Read more…

Here?s my hotel review of the Royal Asia Lodge on Sukhumvit Road, Soi 8 in Bangkok, Thailand. Read more…

Want to know how to get from Bangkok to Ko Chang by bus? Read about my bus experience here. Read more…

Living the slow and easy life in an unfinished hotel in Bang Bao, the little fishing village cum tourist mecca on Koh Chang. Read more…

Besakih is known as the ‘Mother Temple’ in Bali. The largest and most important temple on the island, it sits on the western slopes of Gunung Agung. I visited Pura Besakih in 2003, along with 6 Balinese people and had a good experience. Visitors to Bali will be offered a trip to Besakih temple, by [...] Read more…

Today is October 10th, the night before the 4th anniversary of Bali Bomb I. This afternoon I walked past the place where tommorrow’s ceremony will take place. The area between Poppies II, the Sari Club, memorial site and Paddy’s, looks good. As mentioned before, the street has been paved and looks spanking new. Just outside the [...] Read more…

Richard Bangs Adventures - Follow 89 teams through back-country Utah in a grueling test of skill, guts and endurance. Read more…

Barbara Correa - Travelers express plenty of cynicism about concierge recommendations. Read more…

AP - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, on a trip to China, has opened a first-of-its-kind city tourism office in Beijing on Monday that he hopes will encourage travel to his hometown and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into its economy. Read more…

AP - Do you love making snow angels? Read more…