#fiji🇫🇯

[hazzelle-kento]

BUL A VINAKA 🩵🇫🇯

Vakamareqeta na Vosa Vakaviti 🙌🏽

Happy Fiji Language week, I’m so delayed but better late than never !! It’s Fiji Day today in Sydney, Aus.

So, have a blessed one and ni sa moce 🫶🏽

[dlea203]

Shangri-La Yanuca Island, Fiji 🇫🇯

[natashaneha31]

Fiji is more than just an island paradise; it's a testament to the Fijian community where diverse cultures converge to celebrate 'bula' with contagious smiles and warm welcomes. The spirit of the 'Bula smile' embodies the inclusive and vibrant essence of Fiji, where hospitality and unity thrive among its people.

🇫🇯🌴🐚🌞🙂

[manoftrustsblog]

flooding in Fiji 🇫🇯 😳

[xtruss]

US ‘Satisfied’ with Japan’s Dumping Nuclear-Contaminated Water Betrays Its Image as Global Leader in Environment Protection: Observers

— Global Times Staff Reporters | August 26, 2023

Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

Defying mounting opposition and contrary to its self-styled image as a global leader in environment protection, the US Department of State endorsed Tokyo's controversial dumping of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean, saying the US is "satisfied with Japan's safe, transparent, and science-based process."

Endorsing Japan's selfish and irresponsible practice that harms world environment and health of human beings in the planet, the US trampled on its own image as a leader in global environment protection, exposing its selfishness and hypocrisy of prioritizing its geopolitical interests above the long-term well-being of the people around the world, observers reached by the Global Times said.

As the US publicly backs the Japanese government's plan to dump contaminated water into the ocean, media reports quoting data from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan revealed that the US was making the biggest moves in decreasing imports of agricultural and aquatic products from Japan in the first half of 2023.

Data showed that the US is the country that reduced the imports of Japanese agriculture, forestry and fisheries the most in the first half of the year, and the main production areas of the three kinds of food are all in the affected areas of the dumping of nuclear contaminated water, according to media reports.

Intl Community Condemns Japan's Irresponsible Dumping. Global Times, August 25th, 2023. Fijians take to the street to protest against Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater on August 25, 2023 in Suva, Fiji. Fijian media reported that a coalition of NGOs asked the Fijian government, and other Pacific Islands countries, to call for international action to stop Japan's planned dumping. Photo: VCG

In an apparent political gesture, US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel claimed to eat fish from Fukushima to show support for Tokyo's decision during his visit to the region on August 31.

Though being well-aware of the risks brought by the nuclear-contaminated water to surrounding oceans and the entire global environment, the US has succumbed to its political interests and is going against its image portrayed as a leading role for environment protection activist, Lü Chao, an expert on Korean Peninsula issues at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Saturday.

"It is hilarious to see the hypocrisy and double standards held by the US by covering up Japan's extremely selfish and irresponsible wrongdoing," Lü said.

"Acts and deeds from the US show that it purely considers Japan's act of harming global environment and human beings of all countries from a geopolitical perspective. The US's real intention is to tie Japan to its chariot of geopolitical games," Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Saturday.

Without the indulgence of the US, the Japanese decision on dumping of nuclear-polluted water would not have been so arbitrary. Japan opened a Pandora's box on Thursday with the strong backing of the US, allowing crisis to plague other countries and the international community, Li added.

China Suspends All Aquatic Products From Japan Over Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping. In this aerial image, nuclear-contaminated water is released from the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean on August 24, 2023 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. Photo: VCG

Amid wide opposition and outcry from the Chinese public that the contaminated-water would eventually pose health risks to products from Japan, the Japanese Embassy in China issued a statement on the Japanese edition page on Friday, reminding Japanese staying in China of being careful not to speak Japanese loudly outside their homes as the possibility of encountering accidents cannot be ruled out.

The reminder triggered strong backlash among Chinese netizens late Friday, with many saying "it is the Japanese government we are opposing not the Japanese people" and some accused Japanese government of attempting to divert attention from being targeted due to its insistence on dumping contaminated water.

Lü told the Global Times Tokyo's hype over the safety of Japanese nationals in China servers its purpose of packaging itself as a victim caught in a cycle of deteriorating China-Japan ties and isolating China in its foreign policy while catering to the US' Asia-Pacific strategy to counter China.

Japanese farm minister Tetsuro Nomura on Friday even expressed his surprise that China was taking the responsive measures by suspending imports of aquatic products from Japan, Mainichi Shimbun reported, saying he was "very surprised and completely unexpected."

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao had said China's decision to suspend imports of aquatic products from Japan is reasonable and necessary. The responsibility for this situation lies entirely with Japan, and Japan should reflect on its own actions, Ambassador Wu said.

Japan's actions have provoked strong opposition in China, protest against its dumping the contaminated water into the sea has been mounted in South Korea, with lawmakers of the Democratic Party and the Justice Party planning to visit Fukushima from Sunday and Monday, according to the National Assembly on Thursday.

[girlactionfigure]

HERE is the list of the 134 countries that are NOT supporting South Africa's 🇿🇦 claims of genocide against Israel 🇮🇱:

🇦🇩 Andorra 

🇦🇴 Angola 

🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda 

🇦🇷 Argentina 

🇦🇲 Armenia 

🇦🇺 Australia 

🇦🇹 Austria 

🇧🇸 Bahamas 

🇧🇧 Barbados 

🇧🇾 Belarus 

🇧🇿 Belize 

🇧🇹 Bhutan 

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 

🇧🇼 Botswana 

🇧🇬 Bulgaria 

🇧🇮 Burundi 

🇨🇻 Cabo Verde 

🇰🇭 Cambodia 

🇨🇦 Canada 

🇨🇫 Central African Republic 

🇨🇱 Chile 

🇨🇳 China 

🇰🇲 Comoros 

🇨🇬 Congo 

🇨🇷 Costa Rica 

🇭🇷 Croatia 

🇨🇺 Cuba 

🇨🇾 Cyprus 

🇨🇿 Czech Republic 

🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo 

🇩🇰 Denmark 

🇩🇲 Dominica 

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 

🇹🇱 East Timor (Timor-Leste) 

🇪🇨 Ecuador 

🇸🇻 El Salvador 

🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea 

🇪🇷 Eritrea 

🇪🇪 Estonia 

🇸🇿 Eswatini 

🇪🇹 Ethiopia 

🇫🇯 Fiji 

🇫🇮 Finland 

🇫🇷 France 

🇬🇪 Georgia 

🇩🇪 Germany 

🇬🇭 Ghana 

🇬🇷 Greece 

🇬🇩 Grenada 

🇬🇹 Guatemala 

🇭🇹 Haiti 

🇭🇳 Honduras 

🇭🇺 Hungary 

🇮🇸 Iceland 

🇮🇳 India 

🇮🇪 Ireland 

🇮🇹 Italy 

🇯🇲 Jamaica 

🇯🇵 Japan 

🇰🇪 Kenya 

🇰🇮 Kiribati 

🇰🇵 Korea, North (North Korea) 

🇰🇷 Korea, South (South Korea) 

🇽🇰 Kosovo 

🇱🇦 Laos 

🇱🇻 Latvia 

🇱🇸 Lesotho 

🇱🇷 Liberia 

🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 

🇱🇹 Lithuania 

🇱🇺 Luxembourg 

🇲🇬 Madagascar 

🇲🇼 Malawi

🇲🇹 Malta 

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands 

🇲🇺 Mauritius 

🇲🇽 Mexico 

🇫🇲 Micronesia 

🇲🇩 Moldova 

🇲🇨 Monaco 

🇲🇳 Mongolia 

🇲🇪 Montenegro 

🇲🇲 Myanmar (Burma) 

🇳🇷 Nauru 

🇳🇵 Nepal 

🇳🇱 Netherlands 

🇳🇿 New Zealand 

🇳🇮 Nicaragua 

🇲🇰 North Macedonia (Macedonia) 

🇳🇴 Norway 

🇵🇼 Palau 

🇵🇦 Panama 

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 

🇵🇾 Paraguay 

🇵🇪 Peru 

🇵🇭 Philippines 

🇵🇱 Poland 

🇵🇹 Portugal 

🇷🇴 Romania 

🇷🇺 Russia 

🇷🇼 Rwanda 

🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis 

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia 

🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 

🇼🇸 Samoa 

🇸🇲 San Marino 

🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe 

🇷🇸 Serbia 

🇸🇨 Seychelles 

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 

🇸🇬 Singapore 

🇸🇰 Slovakia 

🇸🇮 Slovenia 

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands 

🇪🇸 Spain 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland 

🇹🇼 Taiwan 

🇹🇿 Tanzania 

🇹🇭 Thailand 

🇹🇴 Tonga 

🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago 

🇹🇳 Tunisia 

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan 

🇹🇻 Tuvalu 

🇺🇦 Ukraine 

🇬🇧 United Kingdom (UK) 

🇺🇸 United States of America (USA) 

🇺🇾 Uruguay 

🇻🇺 Vanuatu 

🇻🇦 Vatican City 

🇻🇳 Vietnam 

🇿🇲 Zambia 

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

[lev-nevelevinskya]

Swazi Miku from Eswatini! 🇸🇿

Next up is Fiji 🇫🇯

I forgot to add her music details I’m giving to all my Miku drawings in this series 🫠

[mahinastarz]

Mamanuca islands, Fiji 🇫🇯

[hettie]

come on Fiji!

🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

[lizard-reads-the-world]

Book Review: The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad (🇫🇯 Fiji + others)

[image 1: book cover: Amid violet coloring and flowers are 4 illustrated woman: a blue-eyed, brown-skinned girl with lavender hair, a dark-skinned girl with a jeweled braid, a light-skinned girl with long blue hair, and a dark-skinned girl with a tropical flower in an afro. Tagline says "Their magic will not be vanquished"; image 2: map showing Fiji; image 3: beautiful flower bouquets at a Fiji market; source: wikimedia)

The Wild Ones

Author: Nafiza Azad

YA World Challenge read for 🇫🇯 Fiji

While the author was born in Fiji and is a "self-identified island girl" according to her bio, only a couple chapters of this book took place in Fiji (plus one Fijian character). I didn't know that before reading, but that's okay and enough to count as my book for Fiji. 😘

Review

This was a uniquely written book and I liked it for that. The premise is a sort of magical-girl squad of sexual violence survivors. They are Paheli's "Wild Ones" - she has saved them all in some way and given them magic stars which instill powers. They are able to traverse the Between, a sort of magical hallway between cities, which is usually only accessible to non-humans. When Paheli is reunited with Taarana, the boy who first saved her and gave her the stars, the Wild Ones decide to protect him from the baddies hunting him down.

The book alternates between two points of view - one is Paheli's, and the other is a collective "we" voice of the other Wild Ones. The voice will also sometimes address the reader directly with comments on gender violence and society. This might seem heavy-handed to some readers, or cathartic to others, depending on the person. I found it refreshing to read a different style.

My favorite parts of the book:

The cities! The Between takes us to multiple cities, each one described as a character in itself, so that we are immersed in such diverse places as Marrakech, Morocco and Busan, South Korea.

I wasn't expecting to find such a cute romance. Seriously, they were so cute.

The diversity of the girls. From Africa to Iraq to the Pacific, the Wild Ones come from across the globe (and the LGBT spectrum). I also love that the author did not only choose Western-palatable names, and chose to show that the Widads and Gufrans of the world are just as beautiful (they are!)

I did want to know more about the character's backstories - each has her own poem, though cryptic - but at the same time I felt the message was "our trauma is not your entertainment" in leaving their stories intentionally vague. So, respect to that.

This was a unique book with a fun feminist theme that tackled themes of trauma and violence at the same time. Keep this in mind for the content warnings (there is also on-page suicide), but if you're okay with that this was worth the read.

Here's the beautiful full jacket cover that I didn't get in an ebook! ✨

Other reps: #lgbtq (various casual mentions) #straight

Genres: #magic #contemporary fantasy #social issues

★  ★  ★  ★   4.5 stars

[lifenconcepts]

New month challenge! Look into different cultures!

This can be in the form of media of that specific country (art, literature, movies), music, culture, and anything of the sorts!

Feel free to use as an art challenge, or writing challenge, or reading goal, or to watch list.If YOU yourself are apart of any one of these countries and are knowledgable on what they entail, I absolutely welcome you to make a list of what you would like someone who has never heard or seen anything from your country to know. This can be songs, cartoons, movies, films, art pieces, musicians, fanfics, stories/books, poems, YouTubers, foods, habits/traditions/common activity, folklore, clothing, item of importance, etc! The only limit is your imagination! Understand that I can’t do every country, that’s for sure, but I hope you enjoy this list I’ve formed..

Spain 🇪🇸

France 🇫🇷

Russia 🇷🇺

Latvia 🇱🇻 or Lithuania 🇱🇹

Portugal 🇵🇹

Britain\UK 🇬🇧

Japan 🇯🇵

Denmark 🇩🇰 or Germany 🇩🇪

Sweden 🇸🇪 or Norway 🇳🇴

Switzerland 🇨🇭

Hungary 🇭🇺

Philippine 🇵🇭

Turkey 🇹🇷

China 🇨🇳

Italy 🇮🇹

India 🇮🇳

Jamaica 🇯🇲

Greece 🇬🇷

Morocco 🇲🇦 or Austria 🇦🇹

Afghanistan ��🇫

Siberia or Alaska

Thailand 🇹🇭

Indonesia 🇮🇩 or Guatemala 🇬🇹

South Korea 🇰🇷

USA 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦

Australia 🇦🇺

Bhutan 🇧🇹

Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Brazil 🇧🇷

Costa Rica 🇨🇷 or Fiji 🇫🇯

free day, you get to choose!

Important to note that Costa Rica and Thailand have different flags (🇨🇷/🇹🇭) and so do Austria and Latvia (🇦🇹/🇱🇻respectively )

for days that have “or” in them, you are allowed to choose both, but please do not burn yourself out doing research on both if you don’t feel like it.

[fourpeatinarowww]

FIJI FIJI FIJI 🇫🇯 🇫🇯🇫🇯

[makoto-shizumu]

BIG NEWS! World Boxing receives its first batch of new arrivals since the Paris Olympics - 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇵🇰 Pakistan, 🇧🇹 Bhutan, 🇫🇯 Fiji, and 🇪🇨 Ecuador, bringing the number of members to 42.

Algeria and Thailand are not yet in WB, but Imane Khelif and Janjaem Suwannapheng are mutuals w/ WB on Instagram 👀

Only 8 more to be recognized by the IOC!

[belleandre-belle]

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The UN has just voted 120-14 in favor of an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza.

Those voting against peace:

🇺🇸USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇹Austria 🇨🇿Czechia 🇫🇯Fiji 🇬🇹Guatemala 🇲🇭Marshall Islands 🇫🇲Micronesia 🇳🇷Nauru 🇵🇬Papua New Guinea 🇵🇾Paraguay 🇹🇴Tonga

If you’re wondering why all these tiny Pacific island nations voted “no” to peace, the reason is those are the only countries the US dollar could buy.

[travelella]

Oceania

Oceania is a continent filled with 14 countries; this is a quick list in alphabetical order featuring the country flag (on mobile).

Australia 🇦🇺

Fiji 🇫🇯

Kiribati 🇰🇮

Marshall Islands 🇲🇭

Micronesia 🇫🇲

Nauru 🇳🇷

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Palau 🇵🇼

Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬

Samoa 🇼🇸

Solomon Islands 🇸🇧

Tonga 🇹🇴

Tuvalu 🇹🇻

Vanuatu 🇻🇺

[fijiantransplant]

Fiji in the 60’s was a vibe 🌴😘🇫🇯🇫🇯