A World Bank report has made suggestions on unique opportunities to redefine the tourism industry in Fiji and the Pacific region.

Canadian media and telecom firm Bell is cutting 1,300 jobs, shuttering six radio stations and selling another three as revenues dry up at its legacy phone and news business, parent company BCE Inc (BCE.TO) said.

The Head of the ESCAP Subregional Office for the Pacific at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) Andie Fong Toy has expressed concerns over the sluggish state of the Pacific economic outlook and its impact on various socioeconomic aspects.

The Land Transport Authority has presented a traditional protocol called kida at the Karavi Weighbridge Site in Ba last Friday.

Amazon is excluding its new competitor Temu from its price searching algorithm that checks if products sold on its platform are competitive with rivals, saying the site doesn’t meet its standards.

Investment Fiji continues to gain traction for investment projects, however, converting the interests into real-time development is crucial.

Meta Platforms said that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new “human-like” artificial intelligence model that it said can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models.

The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to a report released.

Complaints relating to landlord and tenancy matters ranked the highest this year.

Paymentology, the leading global issuer-processor, has announced its continued partnership with Vodafone Fiji.

Twitter was threatened with shutdown in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, with India wanting to curb journalists’ and protesters’ use of the social media platform, co-founder Jack Dorsey said.

Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad has emphasized the urgent need for immediate visa-free travel between Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island states.