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Pinktober event raises funds for cancer awareness

Guests turned up in numbers to support the Pinktober Morning Tea event hosted by the Association of The University of the South Pacific (AUSPS) Women's Wing at the Oceania Centre for Arts, Law & Education today. Picture: AUSPS Women's Wing   By WANSOLWARA STAFF The newly-formed Association of The University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) Women’s Wing hosted a Pinktober Morning Tea event today at the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies on Laucala campus in an effort to create awareness about breast cancer during the month of October and support the important role of Fiji Cancer…

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Royal visit a ‘humbling experience’ for USP students

USP Journalism student Apenisa Vatuniveivuke, far left, was one of 10 students from the Faculty of Arts, Law and Education chosen to meet the royal couple at Laucala campus today. Picture: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION   By MEREONI MILI MEETING the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in person was a humbling experience for specially selected students from The University of the South Pacific including two first-year journalism students, Apenisa Vatuniveivuke and Dhruvkaran Nand. Vatuniveivuke, who is an undergraduate student majoring in journalism and law, said he was pleased to be one of 10 students from the Faculty of Arts, Law and…

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Gathering increases understanding of legal issues

The Otago delegation at this year’s Pacific Law and Culture Conference. Picture: Otago Pacific Islands Law Society Association/radionz.co.nz   By SALOTE QALUBAU Increasing the understanding of Pacific legal issues was the aim of the recent Pacific Law and Culture Conference at the Canterbury University in New Zealand. Participants included legal practitioners and law students who were eager to share lessons learned in their respective Pacific Island countries. Otago University’s Pacific Islands Law Students Association president Nera Tautau said there was a significant increase in the number of Pacific people interested in the legal profession due to events such as the conference.…

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Lack of media judgment a challenge, says Indian academic

Speakers in the opening AMIC2018 plenary on “Millennials – concept of democracy: Freedom of expression for all v. Freedom of expression for themselves”. Picture: Pacific Media Centre/SUPPLIED   By DAVID ROBIE in Manipal, India “Fake news” combined with a lack of critical media judgment by many in the millennial generation is a major challenge to democracies across the world, says a leading Indian communication academic. Speaking at the 26th annual conference of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) conference with the theme “Disturbing Asian millennials: Some creative responses”, Professor Bharthur Sanjay, pro vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad, said the vulnerability…

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Turkish Political Violence and Human Migration

By Monica Aguilar For a country that has survived four coups in two decades, Fiji is not a stranger to political violence, ethnic tensions and the mass exodus of coup opponents. Turkey, a country that is more than a twenty hour flight away from Fiji, is currently facing this same crisis. In July this year the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was subject to a failed military coup. In response Erdoğan has detained and arrested tens of thousands and dismissed over eighty thousand government employees. Those purged by the government are suspected of being members of the Hizmet…

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