The FIJI Water Flying Fijians have stepped up their preparations ahead of the opening round of the inaugural Nations Championship, with intensity building as the side enters game week for its highly anticipated Test against Wales.

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear industry is calling on the government to establish dedicated training centers to address a growing shortage of skilled workers.

The Suva business community has acknowledged that businesses will continue to operate under a largely unchanged policy environment from August.

Tommy Finau believes USP Rugby League still has plenty of improvement left despite making a perfect start to the Fiji National Rugby League Vodafone Cup with back-to-back victories.

A push to make it easier for businesses to invest in Fiji sport is being tied directly to long-awaited efforts to upgrade and expand the country’s sporting infrastructure.

Fiji now has ten registered political parties as Registrar of Political Parties Ana Mataiciwa approved the registration of One Nation as a political party pursuant to the Political Parties (Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosures) Act 2013.

The last of Belgium’s golden generation take a final shot at World ‌Cup glory having come through a mixed group stage and ahead of a last-32 clash in Seattle on Wednesday against a Senegal side who have also had a topsy-turvy campaign.

Twenty young entrepreneurs and youth groups from the Central and Eastern Divisions have received a major boost to grow their businesses after securing funding through the Ministry of Youth and Sports’ Youth Grant Programme.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti is hopeful he will have Neymar available for more minutes in Monday’s World Cup round of 32 fixture against Japan in Houston, and believes his Brazil side ​are ready for anything in what will be a tough knockout fixture.

While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one.

Eleven people, including a pilot and 10 parachutists, were killed when a small ​plane crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine, narrowly missing nearby homes as their families watched, officials and a witness said.

Concerns over government borrowing have been clarified by the Finance Ministry, which says borrowing is being used mainly for infrastructure works and not recurrent expenditure.