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FIJI LOCAL NEWS ....................

Fiji’s Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama wants neighbours Australia and New Zealand to know that all is well between them and Fiji at the business level. ...
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A 50-year-old Muslim man has been arrested by Police in Labasa after he struck his daughter’s lover with a cane knife early Saturday morning. ...
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Struggling Fiji cannery, the Pacific Fishing Company, recovering from a factory fire last year, is to receive a US$20 million investment injection from North American partner Bumble Bee Seafoods, chairman Peniasi Kunatuba revealed last night after the company was named Exporter of the Year. ...
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Her arms full with three trophies from the Prime Minister’s Exporter of the Year Awards last night, Gaetane Austin had just one thing to say as her company Pure Fiji became the first to be inducted into the TFL Hall of Fame – love what you do and it’ll drive you to do it better. ...
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Fiji’s annual Exporter of the Year Awards has come to an end with the Levuka-based Pacific Fishing Company winning the main Prime Minister’s Exporter of the Year award. ...
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Fiji’s exporters face incredibly tough times and have been able to achieve success in the face of very difficult circumstances and in a highly unpredictable environment, says acting Fiji Trade and Investment Board chairman Viliame Naupoto. ...
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Fiji’s Land Forces Commander Colonel Pita Driti was part of the musical preliminaries tonight at the annual Prime Minister’s Exporter of the Year Awards in Sigatoka. ...
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The director of Fiji’s Immigration Department says Australian-based Fiji academic Dr Brij Lal was not deported but left the country voluntarily this week. ...
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Police in Fiji say no arrests are likely soon in two recent murders that have baffled the capital, Suva. ...
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Inflation in Fiji rose to 6.3 percent in September, up from 5.1 percent in August, with Fiji’s Reserve Bank predicting a further increase in the prices of market items during the festive season towards the year-end inflation forecast of 9.5 percent. ...
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Commercial banks in Fiji will have to increase the proportion of their deposits held with the Reserve Bank of Fiji from next month as part of measures by the central bank to support growing liquidity and foreign reserve levels. ...
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Money administered by the Fiji Prime Minister’s Office for the development of specific target groups was not fully utilised in 2006, according to the Public Accounts Committee. ...
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The decomposed body of a male was discovered in the Draunivi hills in Ra by a group of men on a camping trip, police said. ...
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The Fiji Public Service has given itself a $150,000 budget for its annual prize giving later this month. ...
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Virgin Australia this week announced it would launch daily Boeing 777-300ER flights between Sydney and Fiji from December 18 after receiving International Air Services Commission approval. ...
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