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It was the moment like no other. Winston “The Real Deal” Hill who has been working on his craft and honing his skills came out firing to defeat Dylan Archer and claim the PBC Oceania Regional Super Welterweight title after a TKO. In a match titled The Battled of the Pacific both fighters wowed the […]
With the Pacific Games beginning shortly, we felt it was fitting to cast our minds back to the first time the nations of the region came together in Suva for the first South Pacific Games (as it was called then) in 1963. Specifically we’d like to talk about one person who was too young […]
Meet Sera Volavola the 25-year-old who will represent Fiji in Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2023 pageant on 22nd December 2023. Miss EARTH Fiji is currently a Marketing & Sales representative while she studies a degree in Chemistry and Food Technology. Those close to Sera have described her as intelligent, witty, kind, cool and down […]
Tackling the streets with the “Sleep Rough’ challenge, Lifeline Fiji coined this idea to address the intersectional issues between mental health and homelessness. This was done in collaboration with mental health partners including the Vodafone ATH Foundation. Around 30 people joined the challenge to sleep in the streets of Suva from the evening of 9th […]
The islands of the Pacific are the smallest emitters of carbon dioxide in the world but the effects on us are the greatest. According to Tiana Miller, the pictures below tell a very, very powerful story of how climate change affects us and will affect our children even more. This is what she posted on […]
Meet 18 year old Jasmine Daunakamakama, one of Fiji’s few female boxers. After training seriously for about five years, the 18-year-old recently had her first professional fight in the super lightweight category. According to Daunkamakama when asked why she chose boxing, a sport normally not associated with women in Fiji she states that loves the […]
Technology has very much become a part of everyones daily lives. Let’s take a look at a phone for instance. It is not just used for phone calls anymore it has become so much more than that. It has become the alarm clock, the different apps allow for you to get anything done online from […]
Local company Fiji Chemicals marked an interesting milestone in its history when it acquired its first fully electric vehicle. As noted on their page: 1 month ago we acquired our first Electric Vehicle (EV) from Leaf Capital. It is a Nissan Leaf and it does about 200km per full charge. Leaf Capital installed a […]
Exactly a year ago a group of young women were putting their name in the history books as they competed for Fiji in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. They won hearts and fans in Fiji and around the world with their performance. Rugby being the sport of the nation for Fiji anyone that wears the […]
It was just another day of exploring the internet when I stumbled up this video on YouTube and just like that I went down the rabbit hole and I’m still in it. So quick story about the girl who’s been cycling around the world since 2011. Jin is from South Korea, here she is pictured […]
