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1 July 2010

Fiji: Will new media laws lead to better reporting?

Written by Michael Hartsell · Freedom of Speech, Governance

Claiming it will introduce media transparency and responsible reporting, Fiji’s government enacted new media rules, establishing a code of conduct for journalists, strengthening local ownership stipulations and creating a set of fines and prison terms to be levied against reporters and media institutions for potentially breaking guidelines.

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15 June 2010

Fiji: Tackling the land tenure issue

Written by Michael Hartsell · Labor, Economics & Business

Because of its ties to ethnicity, culture and a growing import food bill, land tenure is one of Fiji’s most pressing problems. The government will soon attempt to reform the country’s land tenure system, which has largely remained untouched since the mid-1970s.

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8 April 2010

Fiji: New media oversight proposed

Written by Michael Hartsell · Freedom of Speech, Law

Fiji's journalists have been working under tough conditions since the country's military government abrogated the constitution last year. Now, that government has released plans to oversee Fiji's media.

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14 September 2009

Fiji: Bloggers debate Amnesty International findings

Written by Michael Hartsell · Freedom of Speech, Governance

Bloggers in Fiji and around the Pacific are debating a recent Amnesty International report chronicling the island nation’s human rights record since the country’s president abrogated the constitution April 10

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3 September 2009

Commonwealth suspends Fiji

Written by Michael Hartsell · Freedom of Speech, Elections

The Commonwealth of Nations has suspended Fiji from the 53-nation body for failing to hold elections by October 2010

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31 July 2009

Fiji: President announces retirement

Written by Michael Hartsell · Governance, Politics

Forum posters and bloggers are reacting to the announcement that Fiji’s president will step down. Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda announced his retirement after nearly nine years in office. At 88, he leaves office as the world’s oldest statesman.

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Updates about Fiji

17 April 2010

English

Many prognosticators worry about how Fiji's proposed media ownership law will affect the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fiji Times. But a former staffer said in Cafe Pacific both foreign and local management are to blame for the paper's fall.

• Michael Hartsell

6 April 2010

English

It's hard to prove fully, but for the past six months, blogging platforms (including Global Voices) have been subject to on-again, off-again access problems in Fiji. As another round of blog blocking has been rumored, New Zealand-based blogger Crosbie Walsh writes an open letter to Fiji's Police Commissioner explaining the harm indiscriminate censorship can do to a fragile political situation.

• Michael Hartsell

17 December 2009

Updates

Wendy, from the blog Babasiga, hopes that the history syllabus taught in Fiji's schools is not really from 1960. “Sobosobo, that was colonial! Before Independence, before coup culture!,” she writes.

• Michael Hartsell

10 July 2009

English

With Fiji’s government cracking down on outlets selling pirated DVDs, L. Cass pens a piece in Failed Paradise criticizing these “cheating” retailers but also lamenting their downfall

• Michael Hartsell

English

A second journalism school has opened in Fiji, this one at the Fiji Institute of Technology. But given “the climate of censorship and media paranoia in post-putsch Fiji,” media educator David Robie in his Café Pacific blog argues the standards of these new programs should face heavy scrutiny.

• Michael Hartsell

4 June 2009

English

Jonathan, the writer of the blog Oceanic: User Experiences from the South Pacific reports on a consumer complaint against his Fiji-based advertising agency stating that his advert for a local ISP attempts to benefit from the Swine Flu epidemic (now called H1N1) by misleading consumers into thinking internet service “is like a prescription drug.” He wonders how people can protest against his work, while much of the local media prints “sensationalist” and “inaccurate” headlines about the flu scare.

• Michael Hartsell

English

Most taxi drivers in Suva, Fiji are quiet and uneventful. Every so often, however, you'll run into the driver who is the anti-barman, reports Paradise Fiji Blog. Instead of listening to your problems, these drivers are full of opinions and stories. Here lie five topics you'll most likely hear in a cab in Fiji.

• Michael Hartsell

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