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FIJI: Military tighten security in goldmine town
Monday, 12 June 2000, 2:30 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji martial law authorities have tightened security at the goldmining town of Vatukoula in the western side of Viti Levu to prevent explosives being smuggled out by supporters of rebel leader George Speight. More >>
The Real Issues Behind The Solomon Islands Crisis
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:56 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
--- A delegation of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group arrived in Honiara today to investigate the crisis. A USP journalist student talks to a prominent Solomon Islands academic to background the issues. --- More >>
Viti Fm Reporter Harassed By Rebels
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:53 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): A Communications Fiji Ltd radio reporter came close to being beaten up by rebel supporters of coup leader George Speight, a radio station has reported. More >>
Murdoch's Smallest Asset Folds
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:51 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: The South Pacific's oldest news magazine, the Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM), announced on Friday it was ceasing publication, Fiji's Sunday Post/AFP has reported. More >>
'People's' petition launched with big support
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:49 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A "people's petition" calling for more than 500,000 signatures against the hijacking of democracy in the Fiji Islands by rebel leader George Speight and for the freeing of about 30 hostages has been launched with an "overwhelming" initial ... More >>
FIJI:Western chiefs back Ratu Josefa for president
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:45 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Western chiefs came to the Fiji Islands capital of Suva today with a message for rebel leader George Speight and the military - they want Ratu Josefa Iloilo made President and for him to form a civilian interim government. More >>
Fiji TV's licence threatened over crisis
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:45 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Fiji's telecommunications authorities under martial law have threatened Fiji Television Ltd with revoking its operating licence over a current affairs programme about the political crisis which led to an attack on the station, according to news ... More >>
Drugs, Rape Claim In Parliament Siege
Monday, 12 June 2000, 9:36 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A woman who has escaped from being held captive at Fiji's Parliament claims she was gang-raped for four nights and that drug abuse is rife in the complex, according to media reports today. More >>
FIJI: Scavengers attack journalists at dump
Friday, 9 June 2000, 10:45 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Scavengers at the rubbish dump of Fiji's capital of Suva have stoned and attacked journalists reporting on the economic and social consequences of the Pacific country's three-week-old political crisis, according to a newspaper report. More >>
Suharto's Suit Against Time Thrown Out
Friday, 9 June 2000, 10:41 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
JAKARTA -- Former President Suharto yesterday lost his first legal battle after his fall from power when his multi-billion dollar libel suit against Time magazine was thrown out by a Jakarta court. Central Jakarta District Judge Sihol Sitompul ruled ... More >>
FIJI: Military authorities pledge media freedom
Friday, 9 June 2000, 10:23 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA (PMW): Fiji's martial law authorities have pledged that they will honour a free media in the Pacific country in spite of the political stand-off over the three-week-old hostages crisis, according to radio reports. More >>
Fiji unions hit back at Aussie businessman
Thursday, 8 June 2000, 8:50 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Suva's deputy mayor and national assistant secretary of the Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC), Diwan Shankar, today slammed Australian businessman Mark Halabe for statements he made in The Australian newspaper just five days after the coup. More >>
Fiji crisis impacts on economy
Thursday, 8 June 2000, 8:48 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji's political crisis has begun to bite deeply into the economy as the Commonwealth partially suspended the Pacific country until democracy and the rule of law is restored. More >>
Solomon Star On The Attempted Coup
Wednesday, 7 June 2000, 5:18 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
See updates and pictures: http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/ and: http://www.lookinglassdesign.com/wansolwara/wansol.html More >>
UTS Hosts Censored News
Wednesday, 7 June 2000, 3:14 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SYDNEY: The home page of the University of Technology, Sydney, is hosting exclusive reports from student journalists at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva after the students' news site was shut down. More >>
SOLOMON IS: Analysis: beyond ethnicity
Wednesday, 7 June 2000, 2:03 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Written by Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. This article was published in the May 2000 edition of Pacific News Bulletin, the monthly magazine of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement, before the latest escalation More >>
Senior rebel officer meets military deadline
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 6:47 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: A senior military officer and two other soldiers backing Fiji rebel leader George Speight today heeded the army ultimatum and returned to barracks. More >>
Crisis Of Ethnic Fijian Identity
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 3:12 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
Kathy Marks (June 3rd, page 15, 'Speight's bigotry takes him to the brink of power) gives a realistic picture of Speight, but not of what the political crisis in Fiji is really about. More >>
FIJI: Using the 'SS' sheets
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 9:54 am | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Truth is always the first casualty in conflict, aided and abetted by half or part truth plus the blundering hands, heads and pens of the less intellectual revolutionaries. More >>
Military issues ultimatum to Speight
Monday, 5 June 2000, 7:35 pm | Pacific Media Watch - Pasifik Nius
SUVA: Fiji military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama today issued an ultimatum to rebel leader George Speight and his supporters to release the hostages and lay down their arms. More >>
