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MEF Shoots Dead Arson Suspect
Tuesday, 28 November 2000, 10:24 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
GIZO, Western Solomons: A former Malaita Eagle Force member suspected of setting fire to a building housing the office of the militia legal representative has been shot dead in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Honiara. More >>
Call To Sack Judges
Monday, 27 November 2000, 10:54 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: President Ratu Josefa Iloilo has been asked to sack three of Fiji's High Court judges, the Daily Post reports. More >>
NZ Envoy Challenges Delay In Justice Over Coup
Monday, 27 November 2000, 10:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand High Commissioner Tia Barrett today challenged the delay in prosecuting the leaders of Fiji's coup and mutiny, saying "dictatorship, one-party states and other forms of demagogy do not belong in the Pacific". More >>
Fiji Coup Journalists Top USP Awards
Monday, 27 November 2000, 10:37 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Four student journalists involved in coverage of the Fiji coup crisis in May and the aftermath won major prizes at the annual University of the South Pacific Journalism Awards today. More >>
USP Annual Journalism Programme Awards
Friday, 24 November 2000, 10:10 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: New Zealand High Commissioner Tia Barrett will today speak and present prizes at the annual Journalism Programme Awards at the University of the South Pacific. More >>
Ravuvu Lashes Out At Gates Judgment
Wednesday, 22 November 2000, 3:17 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's Constitutional Review Commission chairman, Professor Asesela Ravuvu, has lashed out at the High Court judgment upholding the validity of the multiracial 1997 constitution, saying politics must become before the law. More >>
FBC Poised To Provide 'Wide Reach' TV
Wednesday, 22 November 2000, 10:04 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji can in future look foward to far better television coverage in terms of "reach of the nation" if plans by the national radio broadcaster Radio Fiji go ahead. More >>
Radio broadcaster killed in Mindanao
Tuesday, 21 November 2000, 11:53 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
(RSF/IFEX) - In a letter sent to Filipino Minister of Interior Alfredo Lim, RSF expressed its concern after the murder of Olipio "Jun" Jalapit, journalist and broadcaster with the private radio station DXPR in Pagadian, in the province of Zamboanga (Mindanao ... More >>
Country Faces Bleak Future, Says Chaudhry
Tuesday, 21 November 2000, 11:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji faces a bleak future unless democracy is restored, according to deposed prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry, the Daily Post reports. More >>
Tourism television advertisement breaches code
Monday, 20 November 2000, 6:33 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
AUCKLAND (PMW): A Fiji Visitors Bureau television advertisement portraying the Fiji Islands as unchanged after rioting and a coup in May has been found to have breached New Zealand's advertising code of ethics and has been modified. More >>
Constitutional Ruling Judge Threatened
Monday, 20 November 2000, 11:06 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The judge who drafted last week's landmark judgment ruling that Fiji's military installed interim administration is illegal and that the 1997 constitution is still the supreme law has been threatened, according to media reports. More >>
Digging Up The Past To Solve Balibo Killings
Monday, 20 November 2000, 11:04 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
BALIBO, East Timor: Forensic investigators are looking for the remains of five Western journalists murdered here 25 years ago during Indonesia's occupation of East Timor. More >>
Unionists Turn On Journalists
Monday, 20 November 2000, 11:01 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guinean trade unionists who have been gathering at the Sir John Guise stadium in recent days to protest against privatisation and the downwriting of members' contributions by the National Provident Fund (NPF) yesterday turned on ... More >>
Armed Soldiers 'Slow Healing' In Hospital
Monday, 20 November 2000, 10:54 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Patients in Fiji's national hospital were today reported to be more at risk because the sight of armed soldiers in the wards caused anxiety and slowed down healing. More >>
Nasara To Pay 8 Million Vatu To Heston
Monday, 20 November 2000, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
PORT VILA (OFO): The editor and publisher of Nasara newspaper, Kalvao Moli, has been ordered by a Vanuatu court to pay Toa Farm managing director Bob Heston 8 million vatu (US$52,000) for damages over defamatory statements made by his paper on 23 February ... More >>
Military Clears Suspect Colonels
Friday, 17 November 2000, 10:46 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's military forces have cleared two senior army officers suspected of being involved in an aborted mutiny earlier this month and have lifted the restrictions on their movements, according to news media reports. More >>
FIJI: Baba says Labour needs to make changes
Thursday, 16 November 2000, 1:36 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's former deputy prime minister in the ousted elected government, Dr Tupeni Baba, has welcomed the judgement by Justice Anthony Gates but believes the Fiji Labour Party will need to consider amendments to the 1997 Constitution, the Fiji Times reports. More >>
Citizens' Group Calls For Interim Govt To Resign
Thursday, 16 November 2000, 10:04 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A Fiji Islands pro-democracy group called on the military installed interim administration to be ready to resign and make way for the formation of a government of national unity following today's landmark court ruling that the 1997 constitution ... More >>
FIJI: Interim government rejects 'illegal' ruling
Wednesday, 15 November 2000, 8:21 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (Pacnews): Fiji's interim government has rejected a High Court judge's ruling that it is an illegal administration and that the country's 1997 constitution has not been abrogated, Pacnews reports. More >>
Tarte Hails Journos
Wednesday, 15 November 2000, 10:15 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Journalists have a tight rope to walk in order to get news and must be commended for their efforts in risky situations, according to Fiji Media Council chairman Daryl Tarte. More >>
