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's new national flag which will be designed this year will focus on uniting the island nation, the prime minister's office Thursday. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has revealed that the ...

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 ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year's Day address that his country will be getting a new flag. The move means Australia will now become one of a small group of former ...

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 ...

Fiji's coup-installed government is considering changing the country's national anthem and flag. Fiji has been ruled by army leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama since a coup in December 2006 ousted ...

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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 ...