Fiji

Fijian authorities have warned of possible outbreaks of communicable diseases at evacuation centres filled with people fleeing flooded towns.

A state of natural disaster has been declared for flood-stricken western Fiji with more stormy weather predicted.

A family of four has died under a landslide in Fiji, as forecasters predict lingering torrential rain in the flood-battered region.

New Zealanders in a flood-hit area of Fiji have been evacuated from their resort on Denarau Island by helicopter.

More than 400 New Zealanders are understood to be in Fiji as the island nation is battered by a deadly storm.

The All Blacks will play Fiji at Carisbrook in a one-off rugby test in July.

Rupert Murdoch, whose companies own the world's most extensive media holdings, has over the decades had to deal with many varieties of government, from true democracies to totalitarian states, so he is unlikely to be surprised by the actions of New Zealand's nearest dictatorship, the Bainimarama regime of Fiji.

Comparisons between the actions of Fiji's Frank Bainimarama "to solve Fiji's" intractable problems and that of the present New Zealand Government to deal with the "institutional failure" of the Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) are inevitable.

A second person has been found dead in Fiji following Cyclone Tomas which hit the country earlier this week.

Homes have been destroyed, crops flattened and debris scattered across Fiji but Cyclone Tomas didn't cause as much damage as first thought, officials say.