Fiji Nursing Association general secretary Kuini Lutua says she has received confirmation from the Health Ministry that striking nurses will not be getting paid Read more…

The Fijian Teachers Association plans to take the interim administration to court following the regimes decision not to pay the teachers during the two-week school holiday Read more…

The Great Council of Chiefs is calling for immediate dialogue with the interim Fijian Affairs Minister Ratu Epeli Ganilau to resolve differences that has followed the reinstatement of the chiefly body Read more…

Two senior civil servants have denied charges of abuse of office in the High Court today Read more…

Mining and Quarrying Council chairperson Harvie Probert says Fiji could have full potential in terms of export industry based on mining Read more…

AP - Italy's transport minister Tuesday promised a package of measures including extra staff to improve the chaotic baggage-handling system at Rome's main airport. Read more…

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs will have fewer members and new faces as part of major changes being looked at by the interim Government Read more…

Fiji Employers Federation members today expressed their frustration at what they felt was the unfairness of New Zealand's travel bans imposed on some of them after the December 5 military coup Read more…

The British High Commission in Wellington says that the recruitment of Fijians into the British army is completely separate from its diplomatic stance over the December coup Read more…

The works of one of Bali’s most famous artists, Affandi, will be on display at the Neka museum in Ubud from August 12th - 16th 2007. Affandi was originally from Yogyakarta where a museum is dedicated to him. Here’s more from the Jakarta Post. Affandi paintings to be displayed in Neka museum, Bali DENPASAR (Antara): Neka Museum [...] Read more…

AP - The number of visitors to Yellowstone National Park continues to climb. Read more…

AP - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Read more…

Rewa high chief Ro Teimumu Kepa has indicated that her province is ready to facilitate any future meetings of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs Read more…

Executives of two unions who return to work today fear more pay cuts under the interim Government Read more…

AP - "This is the last pretty thing you're going to see until we get to the lakefront," tour guide Rose Scott tells passengers gazing at the live oaks of City Park. Read more…

AP - Architects unveiled three competing plans for a new downtown skyscraper and transit hub that would be the West Coast's tallest building. Read more…

Striking nurses who were detained at the Nasova Police Academy this afternoon were released minutes ago Read more…

Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs has not decided on the time and venue of their next meeting following a regulation gazetted Read more…

Fiji as a member of the Pacific Islands Forum is entitled to attend its next meeting in Tonga, says Forum secretary general Read more…

The return of Fiji's union members to work tomorrow is a victory for the interim Government, says interim Public Service minister Poseci Bune Read more…

The Pacific Islands Forum secretary general Greg Urwin has defended the appointment of two sacked chief executives of Fiji's deposed Government to the Forum, stating the process was transparent Read more…

The five per cent wage reduction imposed on civil servants early this year also applied to military and police personnel Read more…

Bali’s Sunset Rd is an offshoot of Bypass Ngurah Rai. Funded by the World Bank and finally completed in 2003, it allows traffic coming off of Jl. Raya Kerobokan to access Seminyak, Legian, Kuta, Tuban and the airport in 25 minutes max. The Sunset Rd was aptly named as sunsets are lovely from that vantage [...] Read more…

Bali is a tropical island situated just 8 degrees south of the equator and 115 degrees east of the Greenwich meridian, so my GPS unit likes to tell me. So close to the equator our seasonal light doesn’t have the big changes that Europe does. Here in Bali you’re looking at sunrise being around 6am-6.30am. [...] Read more…

Fiji's Public Employees Union and the Viti National Union of Taukei Workers will return to work tomorrow Read more…