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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

AUSTRALIA has become one of a small group of former British colonies to keep the Union Jack on its flag after Fiji moved for change. Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year ...

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 ...