For eight weeks Mahendra Chaudhry ... indigenous prime minister. But Chaudhry never gave up. On Wednesday his Labor Party-the political voice of Fiji's 44 percent ethnic Indian minority-claimed ...

Fiji's ousted Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry said on Thursday he was confident of popular support and believed he could still win an election. "Those who participated in the coup are a minority," ...

BHU JAMALPUR, India — Jostling crowds, dancers, flags and flowered arches welcomed deposed Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry on Thursday to the village of his ancestors. The people of Bhu ...

On July 13, after 56 days as a prisoner of coup leader George Speight, Mahendra Chaudhry was freed into a new Fiji, without a Constitution or an elected government, and policed by martial law.

At stake, said Mahendra ... region," Chaudhry said. Indians were first brought to Fiji as indentured workers to tend sugar cane fields and over the decades have grown to 44 per cent of the ...

Fiji's former Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, has been released on bail after being charged with breaching the military government's emergency laws. Mr Chaudhry, leader of the opposition Labour ...

Former Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry has appeared before a Suva magistrate this afternoon on 12 charges of money laundering, tax evasion and fraud involving NZ$1.8 million given to him by ...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry, but in 2000 he and most his cabinet were held hostage for almost two months, after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the ...

Mr Chaudhry is one of Fiji's main opposition voices Fiji's former Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, has been released on bail after being charged with breaching the military government's ...