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The Fiji national rugby sevens team has competed in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Olympics.Fiji won the gold medal in the inaugural rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Brazil, the country's first Olympic medal in any event, and repeated as Olympic champions in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, defeating New Zealand.
This is a list of newspapers in Fiji. Daily Post; Fiji Focus; Fiji Live; Fiji Samachar; Fiji Sun; Fiji Times; Fiji Village; The Jet Newspaper; Shanti Dut; The Stallion; South Sea Times; Nai Lalakai; Kaila; Fiji Newswire; Fiji One; Fiji Broadcasting Corporation; Islands Business (magazine) Mai Life (magazine)
Fiji's Court of Appeal is chaired by the President of the Court of Appeal. The Chief Justice of Fiji is not permitted to hold this position; in order to give the Court of Appeal a degree of independence from the High Court and the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice, who chairs both courts, is constitutionally disqualified from presiding over, or even sitting on, the Court of Appeal.
Vishnu Deo ( Hindi: विष्णु देव) OBE [1] (17 July 1900 – 7 May 1968) was the first Fiji born and bred leader of the Indo-Fijians. From his initial election to the Legislative Council in 1929 to his retirement in 1959, he remained the most powerful Indo-Fijians political leader in Fiji. He was a staunch supporter of Arya Samaj ...
Players selected from Fiji Women's Rugby League competition include: Asenaca Diranuve (Police Sharks) [21] Salote Sukakinamena [22] Grace Waqa (USP Raiders) [23] Adi Sokula Waqa [24] Players selected from the NSWRL Women's Premiership include: Illawarra Steelers: Ana Raduva and Anastasia Shum.
The Fijian coups d'état of 1987 resulted in the overthrow of the elected government of Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, the deposition of Elizabeth II as Queen of Fiji, and in the declaration of a republic. The first coup d'état, in which Bavadra was deposed, took place on 14 May 1987; a second coup d'état on 25 September ended the ...
Almost all Indo-Fijians are fluent in English. According to the 1996 census (the latest available), 76.7% of Indo-Fijians are Hindus and a further 15.9% are Muslims. Christians comprise 6.1% of the Indo-Fijian population, while about 0.9% are members of the Sikh faith. The remaining 0.4% are mostly nonreligious.
t. e. Islam in Fiji ( Fiji Hindi: فجی میں اسلام ( Perso-Arabic script); फ़िजी में इस्लाम ( Devanagari script)) is the third largest religion. There are about 60,000 Muslims in Fiji. [1] [2] Muslims in Fiji are mostly Sunni Muslim with a Shia and Ahmadiyya minority. [3] In the 1966 Fiji elections, a Suva ...