WOMEN of Rabi who are well known for the production of virgin coconut oil on the island pocketed another asset to boost livelihood on the island.

The Banaban Women's Organisation was given eight electric sewing machines; two machines for each of…

Fiji Times Online Salaseini Vosamana Tuesday, August 02, 2011

SOCIAL Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation Minister Doctor Jiko Luveni will visit villages in the Northern Division next week in a bid to empower disadvantaged women.

PACIFIC BEAT Updated August 1, 2011 09:08:06

During an archaeological dig, the smallest items can reveal the most exciting clues.



And the humble coconut is providing some of the answers about how and when people travelled through the Pacific in ancient times.



Researchers at the University of New England in New South Wales have been analysing the spread of the coconut, and they've uncovered some fairly amazing details about…

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Teri (second from left) with members of the Banaban Women's Group.Picture: FAY VOLATABU.

THERE is never a better weather than the current cold spell to have…

The craft that is currently undergoing advanced trials has been designed with…

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Villagers of Wailevu in Cakaudrove with yasi plants. Picture: MAIKA RABALEILEKUTU

WAILEVU villagers in Cakaudrove have embarked on a yasi tree planting…

Pacific Beat RADIO AUSTRALIA  Updated July 27, 2011 16:59:01

Nauru's President says a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York has taken a step towards recognising climate change as a global security threat. Marcus Stephen says they didn't go as far as Nauru and other small island states would have liked. There had been talk of setting up a United Nations force which could intervene in conflicts caused by climate change, which would be called "Green Helmets", but that idea…

Fiji's interim government plans to supply every village in the country with two sewing machines.



They are on track with a recent donation of 500 electric machines from China.



Most of the 1,170 villages in Fiji have either a hand or treadle machine courtesy of donations from All China Women's Federation, the Indian government and the Latter Day saints.



This latest batch…

MANILA, Philippines -- In this column last June 25, we reported on the Xylose Coco Sugar, a special kind of sugar that is extracted from the coconut shell. The company that is doing this for the first time in the world is the Toyota Tsusho Philippines, Inc. located at the DADC Economic Zone in Brgy. Darong, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur.

An information material was prepared by Angelica Laurilla and sent to us by…

Pacific Island Trade & Investment Commission, Australia

A capacity building programme for officials of Pacific Island governments to help them tap funds for renewable energy and other ecologically friendly programmes for their respective countries that was under way in the Cook Islands this week concludes today.

Planned and coordinated by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Apia, Samoa headquartered South Pacific Regional Environment…

The Micronesian island nation of Nauru has hooked almost the entire complement of street lighting around its main urban area on to solar power.

Thanks to an assistance programme funded and technically managed by the government of the republic of China (Taiwan), which has a diplomatic mission on the island, some 155 new solar lights now light up Nauru’s streets.

Nauru, however, is not new to solar lighting. A previous programme successfully installed…

IN the hope of instilling a self help attitude, the elders and leaders of Wailevu in Cakaudrove have paved a way for such habits to dwell among villagers.

Village headman Tevita Beka said they had started building two copra driers which would help villagers dry their own copra which was sold directly to the mill in Savusavu.

He said over the past years the villagers sold raw coconuts to the…

~ Bill Gates ~

This should be posted in every school or kid's bedroom.

Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (11) things they did not and will not…