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...Fiji Trouble in Paradise A day after Fiji's court of appeal declared the regime of military chief Frank Bainimarama unlawful, his ally, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, abolished the constitution, sacked Fiji's judges and reinstated Bainimarama as Prime Minister. Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 coup, wants to reform a political system he calls racist and corrupt. Critics, however, call him a dictator. Fiji's central bank has devalued its currency 20% to boost exports and tourism amid the turmoil...
Around the corner, the soldier who had been closest to the explosion, Private First Class Ratu Waqa Mawi, 26, of Fiji, called out. "This place," he said, jabbing his gun at a large stone house. "I saw him go in there." After his sergeant blew the lock off the door with a shotgun, "Maui Wowy" as he is known, raced into the house, screaming with fury. In a cool, dim room, he found his attacker - a 19-year old with a pubescent mustache, in a red and black Real Madrid tracksuit - sitting on a couch between two older women...
Wait, you hadn't been home in a year? Nah. I just tend to stay where I'm at, I don't like to fly to Fiji or Tahiti or Australia or Indonesia and fly back home the next week and then fly somewhere else that far away again the other week. I tend to stay where I'm at and then fly to next place, it makes it easier for me to deal with. Why not chill in Fiji for a while...
Some insight into how media images are processed into behavior comes from a 2004 Harvard study on the arrival of TV in Western Fiji. The most noticeable change was that Fijian women became dissatisfied with their bodies and tried to lose weight. They didn't necessarily want to be like Europeans; they just wanted to look like them. Is it possible that the situation for teens and tweens is the same? They don't want to be like the characters in Gossip Girl (only 16% of whose viewers are actually teen girls) or America's Next Top Model; they just...
...fear of cultural amnesia - particularly of the region's traditional arts and crafts - that underlay the festival's inauguration in Suva, Fiji, in 1972. As "each and every one of our countries aspire to economic prosperity, we are all deeply conscious that the quality of life is what matters in the end," Fiji's then-Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, told delegates. In the 36 years since, the event has opened itself up to cross-cultural exchange (Townsville, 1988), contemporary art (Noumea, 2000) and, most recently, the arts of the northern Pacific (Palau, 2004), to become what the Secretariat...