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Since the beginning of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Snoop Dogg has been everywhere showing his support for athletes and in many sports as well. He has been dubbed an unofficial mascot of the Olympics and has been described by many as a man who looks like “a proud dad”. With every sport, he has a […]
Sharon Liu, a research officer at the Development Policy Centre and a co-author on the topic at hand shared statistics on the high number of Fijians migrating Overseas. In an interview with ABC’s Pacific Pulse she shared that 42,000 people left the country in 2022 and 47,000 in 2023 which accounts for nearly 10% of […]
Netflix has dropped a new Documentary called “Sky Walkers” featuring Angela Nikoleau and Ivan Beerkus which feature the couple who are “rooftoppers”. Which features the couple as they risk their lives for art atop the world’s tallest buildings. The film that tells the story of this Russian pair of “rooftoppers” (the name given to their […]
Snoop Dogg has agreed to become an Olympic torch bearer. The hip-hop star recalled an emotional, iconic moment watching Muhammad Ali light the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games. He hopes to recreate some of that magic for the global audience that will be watching the Paris Olympics. “It […]
Last September, as the celebration picked up steam inside a cramped South Sudanese locker room in Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Luol Deng paused to reflect on surrealness of it all. How Deng, a 15-season NBA veteran, had come to spend the last four years in a new role: president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation. […]
“If you’re struggling with something, talk to someone, get the help that you need, don’t wait till it’s too late”, this is the advise that Kalesi Volatabu, founder of Drug Free World Fiji shared on the Pacific Beat podcast. Reports have surfaced on the increasing cases of meth, […]
Violet Langan is a Brisbane pastor who also moved to Australia from Fiji and helps households struggling to afford bills and food explained that groceries have become quite expensive even for this the employed. “It’s just too expensive for things that have risen in costs, the basics. You don’t get much out of $100,” she […]
Pastors Meli and Evelyn Tamanisau lead PAL workers in to in cooking and giving out food. They said that the number of people coming for meals has grown. The pastors started cooking meals before the COVID pandemic, when Mr Tamanisau was working at Sun Pork, and the […]
KFC just made things pretty exciting in Australia by launching a wild pop-up restaurant to celebrate the addition of a new permanent menu item. Three new burgers, the ‘Original Crispy’, the ‘Original Crispy Cheese and Bacon’ and the ‘Original Crispy Stacker’, are now available to hungry Aussies at KFC stores around the country. However the […]
A fourth-year computer science student specializing in data science at the Vellore Institute of Technology, went viral on LinkedIn after using AI to translate American sign language (ASL). Priyanjali Gupta got the idea from her mom, who pushed her to put her engineering degree to good use. She made the model using Tensorflow Object Detection to translate […]
