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Written By : CHRIS ARSENAULT Aljazeera.net. After droughts ravaged his parents’ farmland, sixteen-year-old Hassain and his two-year-old sister Sareye became some of the newest refugees forced from home by water scarcity. “There was nothing to harvest,” Hassain said through an interpreter during an interview at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya which is housing some [...]

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Written By : DAILY MAIL REPORTER. This amazing picture of Titanic Captain Edward Smith’s private bathtub is among a series of spectacular images that have been shown for the first time during a court case into the salvage rights. The porcelain tub, which has intricate plumbing for both freshwater and seawater, has sat in the [...]

Written By : Source: MINISTRY OF SOCIAL WELFARE, WOMEN AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION . The Northern Division received a special treat this week to celebrate the official opening of its Centre for the Fiji National Council for Disabled Persons (FNCDP) in Naiyaca, Labasa. The facility symbolises Government’s commitment to empower the disabled in our community, with [...]

Written By : Source: BIO-SECURITY AUTHORITY OF FIJI. The Asian subterranean termite outbreak, presence of American iguanas in Fiji, taro beetles and the re-emergence of the American Foulbrood disease in honey bee farms in the Western Division have brought bio-security issues to the forefront. This week the chief executive officer of the Bio-security Authority of [...]

Written By : SOURCE: SOPAC. The importance of setting rules for seabed mining in the Pacific was heard at a meeting in Fiji last week. Michael Lodge, Legal Counsel for the International Seabed Authority (ISA), who was invited to speak at the three-day meeting, said rules that govern mineral resource related activities in the international [...]

Written By : TAMARA ABRAHAM Daily Mail. When you have a fortune of billions, having the latest sports car or the largest house is child’s play. For the likes of Roman Abramovich and the Sheikhs of the UAE, the real way to demonstrate one’s financial worth is to have the grandest yacht. While size most [...]

Written By : FIONA ROBERTS Daily Mail. It turns out the streets of New York really are paved with gold – as long as you don’t mind searching for it on your hands and knees. Raffi Stepanian, a self-styled urban prospector, has discovered enough tiny jewellery fragments hidden in the sidewalks of the city’s Diamond [...]

Written By : Source: FIJI DEVELOPMENT BANK. The internet is the ground on which every child born in Fiji post-1990, has cut their teeth playing. Well, for the children who live in the suburbs anyway. If you asked these same children about playing pani and rounders, you’d probably get a blank stare followed by, “Are [...]

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