AP - Two hikers who were lost in a heavily wooded area were located by a helicopter pilot after they used the flash on a cell phone camera as a signal. Read more…

Just a brief update to let everyone know I?m still alive and kicking and doing well visiting Angkor Wat and Siem Reap in Cambodia. Read more…

ABOUT 300 police officers have been deployed to Nadi to provide security during the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting that begins next week. Read more…

A POLICE support officer who assaulted an elderly farmer last year was jailed for two years yesterday. Read more…

ABOUT 370,745 of Fiji's population will not be formally employed by 2015, says an academic at the University of the South Pacific. Read more…

HARSHER penalties should be imposed on people who break into places of worship, said the head of a religious organisation yesterday. Read more…

POLICE officers are questioning a villager who allegedly left 293 branches of marijuana at a relative's house at Tukavesi, Cakaudrove in Vanua Levu on Sunday. Read more…

SEVEN police officers leave the country this morning for a year of peacekeeping duty in Sudan. Read more…

Police have remained tightlipped on investigations regarding the distribution of a pornographic movie that was allegedly shot at five of the country's major tourism resorts. Read more…

SOME of the deaths of mothers during childbirth over the past four years were the result of possible misdiagnosis by medical personnel on duty. Read more…

A recent influenza virus that hit the country is waning, says the Fiji College of General Practitioners president, Doctor Wahid Khan says. Read more…

A POLICE officer based on Taveuni has been charged with stealing livestock and has been suspended on half pay while he awaits his court trial. Read more…

A SCHOOL management yesterday locked out its students and teachers in protest against the Ministry of Education's failure to assign a science teacher there. Read more…

The High Court was yesterday told that the Ministry of Agriculture's farming assistance scheme was a new program designed to begin in Naitasiri province because of the heavy involvement of youth in the 2000 political crisis. Read more…

THE happiness Hindus gain from celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights, may rest on one man who supplies clay diya to most supermarkets each year. Read more…

Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry yesterday agreed to the establishment of a forum to draft the ground rules of the multi-party Cabinet. Read more…

Army commander Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama last night reiterated his call to the Government to resign if it won't drop unjust policies such as the Promotion of Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill. Read more…

A lecturer at Fiji's University of the South Pacific Laucala campus today appeared in court on pornography charges involving juveniles Read more…

Australian national Greg Urwin is the lone applicant for the Secretary General's post at the Forum Secretariat Read more…

Australian Prime Minister John Howard will bring a barrage of his personal bodyguards for the 37th Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji next week Read more…

Fiji's Finance Ministry should have intervened when the Agriculture Ministry continuously requested funds for the farming assistance scheme in 2000, the High Court heard this afternoon Read more…

Fiji's two main political leaders, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry met today and agreed on land and minor constitutional changes by the first quarter of 2007 Read more…

Get rid of the bills or resign, that's the final word from Army Commander Voreqe Bainimarama Read more…

It all comes down to the spin of the dice or toss of a coin. Heads you love to gamble, tails you don't. I fall into the latter category, which is why I simply cannot comprehend why any sane person would save up for a holiday then, once away, fritter away hard-earned spending cash on the pokies or flush it down the roulette wheel. Such behaviour seems crazy to me but obviously I'm a minority or how else have casinos become such a tourism focus? And they most certainly have, with ever-increasing momentum. Read more…

Thailand golf caddies raise so many questions for golf travelers here that I thought to completely re-write, including some original photos,my prior Thailand Golf Caddies article. As regular golfers in Thailand know, one of the undoubted joys of playing golf... Read more…