Fiji

The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens have been granted Presidential pardons.

The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens have been granted Presidential pardons.

FRU Interim Board chairman Peter Mazey said they are concerned by former Flying Fijians captain Waisea Nayacalevu's "serious accusations against the team at Rugby House".

"If we didn't have corruption, if we had professional people in charge, then Fiji would be better," Waisea Nayacalevu, who led the team to the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, said.

World Boxing Assocaition Oceania president Ferlin Marsh has asked another four international boxing judges to view the fight footage and send him the points.

The rise of the Fijian Drua rugby team and how it has captivated a nation, is now chronicled in a book.

Fijian cruiserweight boxing champion Alivereti Kauyaca lost by split points decision to New Zealand's John Parker in Hamilton on Saturday.

It is almost eight months since Fijian authorities raided two warehouses within days of each other in "one of the biggest seizures ever".

The St Giles Psychiatric Hospital in Suva is battling with resource constraints as demand for mental health services, linked to drug use, is surging in the country.

Fiji's Melania Tora and Samoa's Litara Ieremaia-Allan, both 24, were crowned Miss Hibiscus (in Suva) and Miss Samoa (in Apia) on Saturday.

Fiji's first Miss Universe beauty pageant in more than 40 years has been "tainted" by ugly accusations, a New Zealand judge at the contest says.

Barbara Malimali was revealed new anti-corruption head on Wednesday, detained the next day, and was back in the same office investigating her for an abuse of office allegation Friday.

Fiji's new anti-corruption chief has been taken in for questioning by the anti-corruption office in relation to an abuse of office allegation, a day after her appointment was announced.

Fiji's Judicial Services Commission has reportedly appointed a new head of the country's anti-corruption office who is currently under investigation by the anti-corruption watchdog.

In what was supposed to mark Fiji's grand return to the Miss Universe pageant later this year, the organisers of the Miss Universe Fiji have revealed they crowned the "wrong winner".