The Latest Breaking News from Fiji

For Georgina Matilda, working for Chinese infrastructure company China Railway means that she can put food on the table for her children

SUVA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds a meeting with counterparts from 10 Pacific island nations in Fiji on Monday, midway through a diplomatic tour of the region where China's ambitions for wider security ties has caused concern among US allies.

Scant details released apart from promises of infrastructure support, amid western concerns that China is seeking to expand its security presence in region

Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi is touring eight Pacific island nations as part of a strategy to increase Beijing's clout in the region. The move triggered Western countries to strengthen ties and may re-boot the relationship between France and Australia, still suffering from a submarine deal that went wrong.

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said on Saturday he had a “wonderful meeting” with Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who travelled to Fiji days after being sworn in to show the new government's attention to the Pacific Islands.

Pacific countries in the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between China and the US and its allies face a big decision this week

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A Ukrainian regional governor says that four people have been killed in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk over the past 24 hours by Russian shelling

A Fijian court dismisses an appeal intended to keep the Amadea in the Pacific, paving the way for the US to seize the $450 million superyacht, believed to be owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Sulieman Kerimov.