AP - This city almost erected a billboard outside Jamestown, Va., to congratulate it on its 400th birthday — and remind everyone St. Augustine passed that milestone four decades ago. Read more…
The Fiji Islands are the most expensive place to live in the Asia Pacific region outside Japan, a study conducted by the Asian Development Bank showed. Read more…
The Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions has opted to go on strike on Thursday after no deal was struck with the interim Government today Read more…
AP - The owner of a cheesesteak shop with family ties to the inventors of the famous sandwich has filed suit against a historic farmer's market that plans to replace his restaurant with another cheesesteak shop. Read more…
AP - "Relax. There will be no test." Read more…
AP - Northwest Airlines struggled again with end-of-the-month cancellations on Monday. Read more…
Fiji's Cabinet has decided to retain its position on the 5 per cent pay deduction, deferment of the Partnership Agreement and the reduction in retirement age from 60 to 55 Read more…
Fiji's interim administration remains tight-lipped as to how it will respond to the nurses' calls for arbitration to end their week-long strike Read more…
Fiji's Prices and Incomes Board has announced a drop in wholesale and retail prices of motor spirit, diesel and premix outboard fuel, which comes into effect from tomorrow Read more…
The last couple of days I’ve had a touch of the Bali Belly (no photos with this article), where you eat something and a short time afterwards you get the urgent feeling the bottom of your pants are going to drop out at any moment. This latest episode brings back travel memories loud and clear. [...] Read more…
Fiji will "go broke " if Government agrees to the nurses' demands, says interim Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama Read more…
Additional staff will be engaged to fill the current vacancies within the nursing establishment, says the Public Service Commission Read more…
Former chief investigator of the agriculture scam ACP Nasir Ali was today questioned on documents allegedly linking three men accused of official corruption Read more…
The Fiji Court of Appeal has ruled that the stay of proceedings granted on human rights activist Angie Heffernan's case, remain Read more…
AP - Here's why I've taken my kids on airplanes: For family vacations in Florida, California and Paris. All frivolous excursions, I admit. Read more…
AP - I'm on a Delta flight from Richmond to JFK Airport which is running 20-30 minutes late. The flight attendant goes through the cabin to ask about our connecting flights. Read more…
AP - The controversy surrounding the opening of a northern Kentucky museum that teaches the biblical story of creation hasn't hurt it at the box office. Read more…
Fiji's interim Cabinet will meet in the next hour in a last-minute attempt to avert the looming strike by members of the Fiji Islands Read more…
Interim Labour minister Bernadette Rounds-Ganilau will today decide whether the strike by members of the Fiji Nursing Association Read more…
AP - Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park will be adding a new $5 million raft ride equipped with water guns to soak targets, other riders and bystanders. Read more…
AP - When the city rolled out a national ad campaign aimed at gay tourists four years ago, some of the commercials featured same-sex couples in Colonial costumes. Read more…
AP - South Africa's tourism minister acknowledged that his country's reputation for crime was keeping visitors away, and said his ministry was working with police to address the issue. Read more…
AP - Authorities reopened the main runway at Brazil's busiest airport on Friday for the first time since a TAM jetliner crashed there on July 17, killing 199 people. Read more…
AP - The turquoise waters and white-sand beaches of the Caribbean appear to be losing some of their allure for U.S. tourists. Read more…
The final of the Asian Cup soccer tournament took place in Jakarta on Sunday night with Irag emerging victorious over Saudi Arabia. Soccer is hugely popular in Indonesia with a small national league. Locals however are fully up to speed on world soccer, the English Premier League being broadcast live over Bali TV every Saturday [...] Read more…