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, apart from ...

Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama scrapped plans on Thursday to change his country's flag as the feel-good factor envelops the Pacific nation following a first Olympic medal, a gold. Mr ...

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Fiji will remove Britain's Union Jack from its flag and replace it with a design that symbolises the Pacific nation rather than its former colonial power, the prime minister said Tuesday, announcing a ...

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 ...

Fiji's interim prime minister Frank Bainimarama says his country will get a new flag to reinforce a new identity for his country. Commodore Bainimarama announced the change in his annual New Year's ...

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 ...

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 flag ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year's Day address that his country will be getting a new flag. Harold Scruby, executive director of Ausflag - a group campaigning for a new ...

In his annual address on New Year’s Day, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the military ruler, only mentioned “revamping” the flag, but it is widely thought the Union Flag will be dropped. The move would ...

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. Mr ...