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The Yue Lai yum cha czar, Zhao Fugang, has been on a local PR blitz to rubbish the Nine Media's reporting that he is a priority target of Australia's intelligence services for allegedly running the region's biggest drug trafficking syndicate. But he has fallen at the first hurdle with his claim that Nick Mckenzie - the 60 Minutes and Nine newspaper … [Read more...] about # ZHAO FUGANG’S CHINESE BURN

Like many Fijians, Grubsheet has been in a mild state of shock at the sight of Frank Bainimarama trying to use what looked like a tea towel to cover up his handcuffs as he and Sitiveni Qiliho left the High Court yesterday for the journey to prison. It wasn’t as if we didn’t expect the pair to be jailed. Grubsheet had been predicting it in these … [Read more...] about # IT ISN’T OVER FOR FRANK

Both sentences start immediately and the ousted prime minister and suspended Police Commissioner have been escorted to prison in handcuffs. For an educated guess about what happens next, please refer to our previous posting. Detailed analysis to come tomorrow (Friday). … [Read more...] about # BREAKING NEWS…FRANK BAINIMARAMA JAILED FOR ONE YEAR FOR PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE…SITIVENI QILIHO JAILED FOR TWO YEARS FOR ABUSE OF OFFICE

Security has been tightened in central Suva as Frank Bainimarama and Sitiveni Qiliho are re-sentenced by the Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, and he imposes much harsher penalties than the effective acquittals pronounced on them by Magistrate Seini Puamau. The hearing was due to begin at 11.00am and local media reports that police are checking … [Read more...] about # THURSDAY MAY 9. A MOMENTOUS DAY IN FIJI

There is suddenly a lot of hand-wringing about moral decay in Fiji, including on the front page of today's Fiji Times where the new Chair of the Great Council of Chiefs preposterously blames the 2000 and 2006 coups. Nonsense. The moral decay in Fiji lies at the feet of our leaders who preach one thing and do another and the appalling example they … [Read more...] about # THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT ENABLES THE MINISTER WHO SLEPT WITH A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSER

Imagine what it must be like to be a Fijian employee of the self-confessed Chinese Communist Party agent and alleged drug trafficker Zhao Fugang. He comes to you and asks you to appear with him in a photograph to use in his attempt to counter the explosive allegations against him detailed by Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes. What do you do? "O, … [Read more...] about # ZHAO FUGANG MUSTERS HIS LOCAL USEFUL IDIOTS