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Not content with being a lickspittle of the Attorney General and the worst propaganda rag in the region, the Fiji Sun has unleashed its mangy dogs of war on Grubsheet. The main letter at the top of today's letters column is clearly from one of the Fiji's Sun's more erudite correspondents - a certain Tukai Lagonilakeba from Nadi, entitled "You … [Read more...] about #CJ PATEL’S FIJI SUN. ALL CLASS

A “war of words”, the Fiji Times called it on its front page on Tuesday – the Registrar of Political Parties and Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem, going head-to-head with the leader of the National Federation Party, Biman Prasad, in a public squabble over the allocation of party funding. Saneem accuses Prasad of breaching the … [Read more...] about #”BROWN OWL”. NEITHER WISE NOR JUDICIOUS

There's nothing like free publicity and I got it in spades today from the Fiji Sun, which is clearly stung by my criticism of it for completely ignoring the Taiwanese government's account of the attack by two Chinese diplomats on one of its representatives in Suva and running only the improbable Chinese Embassy account.  The Sun dedicates … [Read more...] about # THE AG’S MANSERVANT AT THE FIJI SUN HITS BACK

I was being far too generous in my assessment of the Fijian media last week in describing the Fiji Sun as a travesty of a newspaper. It is, in fact, a grotesque parody of a newspaper - a propaganda rag not only for the FijiFirst government but the Chinese Communist Party which the Fijian people can no longer trust and should boycott. In the wake … [Read more...] about #FIJI SUN. NUMBER ONE FOR CORRUPTION

Our story yesterday on the attack by two Chinese diplomats on a Taiwanese official in Suva was confirmed this afternoon by the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry in Taipei and has gone global. Here are the links to a selection of stories: The Washington Post : … [Read more...] about #GRUBSHEET STORY GOES GLOBAL

UPDATED WITH FRESH INFORMATION (SEE POSTSCRIPT) Reports are emerging of a serious diplomatic incident in Suva 10 days ago in which two Chinese diplomats from the Suva embassy assaulted a member of the Taiwanese delegation in Fiji. The incident allegedly took place on the evening of Thursday October 8 on the fringes of a reception at the Grand … [Read more...] about #BREAKING NEWS: CHINESE DIPLOMATIC OUTRAGE