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Daily Post Journalist Wins Major USP Awards

Wednesday, 20 December 2000, 3:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: A Fiji Daily Post journalist Wainikiti Bogidrau today scooped four academic gold medals, including the top campus honour, at the University of the South Pacific's annual graduation ceremony. More >>

FIJI: Army fugitive in daring F$80,000 raid

Tuesday, 19 December 2000, 8:52 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: A military fugitive and three other armed men today raided a supermarket in an elite suburb of the capital Suva and stole F$80,000 (US$40,000) on the first business day since the post-coup curfew had been lifted at the weekend. More >>

FIJI: Furious row over media academic's coup claim

Tuesday, 19 December 2000, 8:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

AUCKLAND, Dec 17 (AFP) - A row has broken out in Fiji over claims the news media may have helped cause the coup which bought down the country's government in May. More >>

Radio station and pro-democracy group clash

Tuesday, 19 December 2000, 8:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: The Citizens Constitutional Forum (CCF) and the state-run Fiji Islands Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (FBC) have run into another hitch over on-air advertising [supporting democracy], reports the Fiji Sun. More >>

USP Staff Slam Inquiry As Risking 'Witch Hunt'

Monday, 18 December 2000, 4:48 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: The University of the South Pacific's academic staff union has refused to cooperate with a special internal inquiry to probe staff conduct in the wake of the Fiji political crisis, claiming that it runs a grave risk of setting off a "general witch hunt". More >>

Rotuma Rebels Nabbed

Monday, 18 December 2000, 4:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Two men believed to be part of a secessionist group that wants the northern Fiji island of Rotuma to be declared a republic have been arrested, the Daily Post reports. More >>

Rebel Says Australian Stance A Terrible Mistake

Monday, 18 December 2000, 4:41 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

Leaders of the West Papuan independence movement yesterday attacked Australia's stance over the troubled Indonesian province, saying it was offensive and a terrible mistake. More >>

Press And The Putsch In Fiji Controversy

Monday, 18 December 2000, 10:26 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

A chronology of links on the controversy about a paper at an Australian journalism education conference last week examining the role of the Fiji news media during the year before the rebellion and following the 19 May 2000 putsch: More >>

Radio Station Bombed

Monday, 18 December 2000, 10:01 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

(CMFR/IFEX) - On Monday 11 December 2000, at 3:30 a.m. (local time), the transmitter site of a church-run radio station in Cotabato City, Mindanao, in Southern Philippines, was bombed, wounding one of the station's employees and damaging surrounding buildings ... More >>

Pina Nius Online Misrepresentations

Wednesday, 13 December 2000, 3:38 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: I was disappointed to read the PINA Nius Online report which purported to be a "news story" about my paper "Coup Coup Land: The Press and the Putsch" presented at last week's Journalism Education Association (JEA) conference in Australia. More >>

SOLOMON IS: Trade unions under threat

Tuesday, 12 December 2000, 5:46 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

Trade unions could become a thing of the past in Solomon Islands if Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has his way. Mr Sogavare has foreshadowed a possible move to outlaw trade unions. More >>

Special Envoy Sees No Real Progress

Tuesday, 12 December 2000, 5:45 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Special Commonwealth envoy to Fiji Justice Pius Langa says the speedy return of democracy in the country is the only acceptable action the Commonwealth will accept. More >>

Dakuvula Predicts 6000 Plus Landless By New Year

Tuesday, 12 December 2000, 3:58 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has been made a scapegoat of nationalist Fijian hysteria and the country faces an extra 6000 landless people by the new year, warns political commentator Jone Dakuvula. More >>

Freelance cameraman denies misleading NZ TV report

Tuesday, 12 December 2000, 1:06 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: A freelance cameraman in the northern Fiji Islands town of Labasa who is being questioned over a television report broadcast in New Zealand last month said there was nothing misleading about what he reported. More >>

Former AG Blasts Review Professor

Wednesday, 29 November 2000, 11:56 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: A former Fiji attorney-general has drawn a parallel between the Pacific nation and the United States and attacked the professor charged with heading a constitutional review. More >>

FIJI: Envoy's justice comments still rile regime

Tuesday, 28 November 2000, 1:10 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius

SUVA: A diplomatic row over a New Zealand envoy's criticisms of the slowness in bringing the perpetrators of the May coup to justice in Fiji continued today with the military-appointed regime describing the comments as "ill-timed" and "foolish". More >>

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