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Fiji's Melania Tora and Samoa's Litara Ieremaia-Allan, both 24, were crowned Miss Hibiscus (in Suva) and Miss Samoa (in Apia) on Saturday.

Fiji's first Miss Universe beauty pageant in more than 40 years has been "tainted" by ugly accusations, a New Zealand judge at the contest says.

Barbara Malimali was revealed new anti-corruption head on Wednesday, detained the next day, and was back in the same office investigating her for an abuse of office allegation Friday.

Fiji's new anti-corruption chief has been taken in for questioning by the anti-corruption office in relation to an abuse of office allegation, a day after her appointment was announced.

Fiji's Judicial Services Commission has reportedly appointed a new head of the country's anti-corruption office who is currently under investigation by the anti-corruption watchdog.

In what was supposed to mark Fiji's grand return to the Miss Universe pageant later this year, the organisers of the Miss Universe Fiji have revealed they crowned the "wrong winner".

Winning both the sportsman and sportswoman awards demonstrates that the sport getting the recognition it deserves, the head of the sport's governing body in the country says.

A Pacific academic claims corruption is rife within the Fiji Police Force because officers "are not very well paid and temptations to take a bribe is quite strong". Audio

Former top Fijian soccer coach Gurjit Singh believes the Fiji Under-20 women's team can match the top teams at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

World Rugby pick out six talking points from the first weekend of the cross-border competition as Fiji and Japan both kick off the tournament with big wins.

The Prime Minister says the agreement commits Australia to help Tuvalu with climate adaptation, and he's also had conversation with Fiji PM to develop a similar bilateral agreement.

The Fijian PM joins other Pacific leaders, from the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Nauru, who have had the red carpet rolled out by Beijing this year.

The Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission chair and the Home Affairs Minister have opposed suggestion by Women and Children's Minister to bring back capital punishment.

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga played first Test rugby games against each other in 1924. Audio