A Facebook group formed on January 28, 2013, and calling itself “Fiji Masi for Everyone” sought to bring attention to this issue and rally opposition to Air Pacific’s plan to trademark the masi motifs ...

Masi is an extraordinary show that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and Fiji, where it was the first professional theatre show to tour there. Now it's in Australia for the first time. It's ...

At first she fended off claims it was tapa by saying it had more colour in it than Fijian masi had, but Niumeitolu launched into her. "The designs and patterns you have been using . . . have all ...

Masi has played 35 games for the Drua and was selected for the Fijian Test side after a breakout year in 2023. The following year, Masi returned to Sevens and claimed silver at the Paris Olympics.

Nina Nawalowalo describes her parents' meeting at a chess club in Wellington and subsequent romance as ''quite a love story'', and it's hard to disagree.

Like the patterns of the masi, it is about the lines that make us who we are, Nawalowalo says. “I recognised in the masi a map back to my own cultural roots, which as a Fijian New Zealander I ...

The Fijian Drua have confirmed the signings of prop Mesake Doge and Sevens Gold Medalist Iosefo Masi for the next two seasons. Doge returns to Fiji from Welsh club Dragons in the United Rugby ...

After being handed a 58-point thrashing by the Crusaders last year, Fijian Drua gain revenge with an upset 25-24 victory over the New Zealand heavyweights in front of a passionate home crowd in ...

In Fiji, the term masi refers to cloth made from tree bark and decorated with intricate designs, generally a grid of square or rectangular geometrical patterns or motifs, mostly black or rust-brown in ...