Fiji

Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu called on people to put aside personal interests and "engage in respectful dialogue" during his opening address for the 2025 parliamentary term on Monday.

The Honiara Summit 2025 aims to address the sustainable use of marine resources, including tuna fish, which is crucial for the region.

Multiple warnings are still in place, including a heavy rain warning for the whole of Fiji.

The headman for Sawana village on Vanua Balavu in Lau says villagers need water and food because the farm they rely on has been completely damaged.

The drugs, with a street value of FJ$2billion, were seized in January 2024 during a raid on a vacant house under construction in the tourist down of Nadi.

Rae is expected to become a severe tropical cyclone later on Monday.

Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Prime Minister Rabuka's decision and is demanding the Fijian government "immediately reverse this provocative decision."

Fijian police commissioner Rusiate Tudravu says the force is focused on "disrupting, destabilising and dismantling" home-based illicit drug production labs in the country.

"When it comes to women rugby players, it seems as though no matter what we do, negativity usually outweighs the positive." Audio

Lynda Tabuya, whose private video of her dancing naked was leaked online, spoke out at a Safer Internet Day event on Wednesday, saying her "attackers sole purpose was to crucify her".

The former Fijiana rugby figures are calling for a code of conduct amid the debate on same-sex relationships in the sport.

The country's police chief has directed "immediate action" against those involved in a brawl in Nabua on Tuesday, a suburb in Fiji's capital, Suva.

Influential Indo-Fijian politician Harish Sharma believes the South Pacific nation's two largest ethnic groups are on a path to reconciliation.