Having met for two days, Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) broke up last Friday without making any decision on the country's political crisis. Acting President Ratu Josefo Iloilo called the 52 ...

1643 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is the first European to visit the islands. 1830s - Western Christian missionaries begin to arrive. 1840s-50s - Christian convert chief Cakobau gains control of ...

A powerful indigenous body in Fiji, the Great Council of Chiefs, has backed a controversial bill granting amnesty to those involved in a coup in 2000. The Reconciliation, Tolerance and Unity Bill, ...

A group of Fijian tribal chiefs have met coup leader George Speight to pressure him to end his rebellion and release the hostages he has been holding for three weeks. The meeting came as Fiji's ...

Members of a Fiji village believe they are cursed because their ancestors killed and ate a Christian missionary 136 years ago. SUVA, Fiji --An elaborate effort to lift a century-old curse on a ...