Fiji's prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced on Tuesday that his country will dump the Union Flag (better known as the Union Jack by most people) from its national flag, the Telegraph reports.

The South Pacific nation of Fiji has launched a competition for a new national flag. The current flag, adopted in 1970 following independence from Britain, is blue with the Union Jack in the left ...

An NGO is calling for Fiji to change its flag, labelling it a reminder of negative colonial inheritances such as racism, divide and rule and cringing subservience. The CEO of the Pacific Dialogue ...

Fiji will hold a national competition to redesign the nation’s flag in an effort to shed several symbols of its colonial past, the island nation’s Prime Minister said on Tuesday. The current ...

After a national competition a new design for the flag of Fiji will be unveiled in October Fiji is to remove the UK's union jack from its flag, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The Pacific island nation of Fiji is the latest country to announce plans to rid its flag of Britain’s Union Jack. “We need to replace the symbols on our existing ...

The designer of Fiji's current flag says she is disappointed by prime minister Frank Bainimarama's move to replace it with a new one. Tessa Mackenzie won the competition in 1970 to design the flag ...

It’s a question that gets asked every Olympic games. Why do some countries, Fiji for one, have the Union Jack on their national flag? That’s because Fiji is one of four sovereign states ...

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