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The Fiji Times is owned by Motibhai Group, which purchased it from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on 22 September 2010 due to the enactment of the Media Industry Development Act 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Fiji Times Limited board is chaired by Kirit Patel (as of 2010), and includes Rajesh Patel, [ 5 ] a resident director appointed in 2010 and Jinesh ...
This is a list of newspapers in Fiji. Daily Post; Fiji Focus; Fiji Live; Fiji Samachar; Fiji Sun (in English) [1] Fiji Times (since 1869; daily, in English) [1] Fiji Village [2] The Jet Newspaper (monthly, in English) [1] Sartaj (weekly, in Hindi) [1] Shanti Dut (weekly, in Hindi) [1] The Stallion; South Sea Times; Nai Lalakai; Kaila; Fiji ...
Buadromo strongly condemned the military coup which deposed the elected government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on 5 December 2006. The Fiji Times quoted her on 12 December as saying that Fiji had a "coup culture" which was perpetuated by the failure of successive governments to prosecute perpetrators of earlier coups, from the 1987 coups onwards.
Fiji Sun is a daily newspaper published in Fiji since September 1999 and owned by Sun News Limited. [2] [3] Fiji Sun was founded by and is part of CJ Patel Group. [2] The Fiji Sun has its main newsroom in Suva, Fiji. [4] Its print center remains in suburban Walu Bay, from where the paper was founded in September 1999. [3]
The Media Industry Development Act 2010 (MIDA) was a law of Fiji which regulates the media. The law was promulgated by the military regime which seized power in the 2006 Fijian coup d'état, in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, and required media organisations to be 90% Fijian-owned and forbade news reporting "against the national interest or public order", with repressive ...
Fiji's foreign currency reserves had fallen by 1/3 during 2008 and, in February 2009, Standard and Poor's downgraded Fiji's long term credit rating from stable to negative. [20] Exports increased in 2008 and inflation declined; however, cashflow suffered from the global financial crisis and imports increased leading to a larger negative balance ...
An indirect election was held in Fiji on 31 October 2024, in which members of parliament elected the president.Incumbent Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu was nominated by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka following the withdrawal of the previous nominee, President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere.
About 86 percent of the land in Fiji is owned by indigenous Fijian people. [13] In 1876, Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, the British colonial Governor, prohibited the sale of Fijian land to non-ethnic Fijians. This policy continues today, and in 2014 the sale of freehold land to foreigners was further restricted.