Buying a tabua ahead of an engagement is also about status, she says. “It means the man’s family is quite well off,” says Ms Naviqa, whose husband presented six tabuas to her family in 1970.

Tabua - ceremonial sperm whale teeth - being returned to Fiji . More than a hundred polished sperm whale teeth, known as tabua, that came to New Zealand from Fiji have been returned to Fiji.

Tabua, named after a sacred Fijian whale’s tooth, will be split into five segments. The transpacific trunk runs between Los Angeles, California, and New South Wales, Australia. The remaining four ...

Google is to deploy two new subsea cables connecting Fiji and French Polynesia to the United States and Australia. The company this week announced two new transpacific subsea cables — Honomoana and ...