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Solomons’ Sogavare faces general election

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So what was it all about?

24. Death by hanging 18 February 2002

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Sāmoa wants action on falling albacore catches

23. New coup 2 November 2000

Tonga narrowly avoids another Ashika

22. Desert Island

School’s out for USP?

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Speight rebel group ‘...pose a risk to the people…’

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Kava, custom and apology

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21. Freedom Thursday 13 July 2000

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20. Meeting my husband's captors

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19. Muanikau Accord

Berlin’s stolen South Pacific canoe

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Mongoose at Parliament

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18. Families: John Scott and the Red Cross

Defeated Fiji minister defends his circumcision

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17. Assassination or stage play?

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16. Nightmare spreads; 'Darkness of Fiji'

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15. Clueless; 'Great' chiefs and reporters

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14. Long days and nights in captivity

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Epidemic again

13. What does God want? ' Forgiveness '

Assassination: 'a big fire came out...'

Sāmoa's wannabe assassins jailed

12. Ten-point plans Through June 2000

Fiji's Rabuka supports Japanese radiation dump

Apology to people of Sāmoa for the injustices

11. Another military coup; Monday 29 May 2000

Slave fishing crew released from Vanuatu jail

Into the world

10. Constitution's edge; Friday 26 May 2000

Solomon Is - sovereignty over democracy

Plebiscite fair and impartial

‘Indians go to Hindu church…’

Want to be free

9. Ten-day slide; Chaudhry beaten

‘Please don’t Enter in this house without permission…. Try to respect.’

Like a dance of death

Rabuka: sympathise with the cause

Sedition or an honest opinion?

Prison filling with friends

8. Reaction: Golf clubs in action

Gestapo spy infiltrates ‘Solf Circle’

Hostage media statements

'Tokelau will get there...'

So'oa'emalelagi - daughter of Vailima

7. Speight, son of Sam: 'Failed businessman'

Minerva’s time for wisdom

Marines, babies and pe’a

Under a wide and starry sky

Surprised to see real coup leader

Breadfruit to make umu

Colonel's escape from Fiji

On counting souls

6. Civil coup Friday 19 May 2000

Pago Pago under Japanese fire

Pacific questions over new DNA maps

'Word has it … likely to be a bloody affair’

Military coronation of Sāmoan king

Speight and Fiji’s lucrative mahogany plantations

NZ Army's '50/50 blood' rule

5. People's Coalition. Wednesday 19 May 1999

Sāmoa's racial blending outrages Nazi

Vanuatu’s world of corrupt dealings exposed

Secret: Special NZ Police order squad for Pacific

Baba: ‘ I would be … prime minister’

Sāmoans as ‘cultural Aryans’

Rabuka’s recant and reform; new constitution

US miners, not China, behind Cook Is seduction

German fantasy in Sāmoa; Der Papalagi

4. Military takeover: Thursday 14 May 1987

Elon Musk disrupts South Pacific

Return to homeland

3. Kala pani: Thursday 14 May 1897

Ta’isi’s sedition - guilty

2. The way the world should be: Vanua and taukei

Mau treating Ta’isi as a king

Japanese submarine attacks American Sāmoa

1. Armed strangers: Friday 19 May 2000

'The Cause'; Fiji's third coup

Inside Fiji's 2000 coup

Anthropologist and another general

Facebook suing Tokelau Internet alias

Not paradise, lost, found or regained...

Sāmoans retain mind and intellect of child

‘It’s not too bad here in Tokelau after all’

Self-conceited white-man’s burden stuff!

Bainimarama appeals to Fiji soldiers

Another coup - this without ammunition

Poison against New Zealand

Pacific marine protected areas of little use

Boys, we shall be killed today, let us go now

Women’s Mau; ‘dangerous person to have’

Not conceding, Bainimarama’s options

Catholics accused of stealing Polynesian atolls

BULLETIN¥¥¥¥ - Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry… freed

The price of fish - UPDATED

Obscure and beautiful South Pacific airfields

Treat Sāmoans roughly - navy

It's the beef, mad cow disease

Speight of Violence

End to Fiji Sun living off taxpayers

South Pacific naval deployment without captions

Palagi become manu

Confused statesmen come calling

Cain killed Tupua Tamasese…?

Bainimarama stabs rival, threatens Fiji Govt

Checking the mini-bar

Coroner: ‘...rifle fire was unnecessary’