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WORKING hard on sugarcane farms from dawn to dusk surviving on a handful laddoo. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Yet that is the power of high-protein, gluten-free, wholesome, locally grown multigrain flour known as satwa. Indentured labourers and their farm descendants used to sing about this superfood that is little known now.

October 8, 2017

Power in a flour

WORKING hard on sugarcane farms from dawn to dusk surviving on a handful laddoo. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Yet that is the power of high-protein, […]
September 11, 2017

Diplomat calls it a day

HAVING never set a foot in a Pacific Island country, Andrew Jacobs could only guess what his appointment as the Pacific ambassador for the European Union […]
September 2, 2017

Duo defy the odds

THE speech and hearing impaired are often marginalised individuals, but Sekaia Vatucicila and Minesh Kumar have never allowed their disabilities to limit their ambitions. The duo […]
September 2, 2017

Food Locally Sourced Ingredients For New Tukuni Restaurant

Tukuni’ is yet another innovative idea by FRIEND Fiji. The traditional iTaukei and Indo-Fijian themed restaurant opened yesterday at FRIEND Fiji Teidamu office in Lautoka. After […]