One tribal chief, Ratu Udre Udre in Rakiraki, Fiji, is said to have consumed 872 people and to have made a pile of stones to record his achievement.

Speaking at 30th anniversary celebrations on 26 July 2006, Commander Bradley Bower said that the greatest challenge facing the navy of a maritime country like Fiji was to maintain sovereignty and the maritime environment, to acquire, restore, and replace equipment, and to train officers to keep pace with changing situations.

On 13 April 2005, Fiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, rejected criticism from Australia and some other countries over the prosecution and imprisonment of two foreigners charged with committing homosexual acts, which are illegal in Fiji, and said that other countries needed to respect Fiji's independence.

Qarase said that as member of the United Nations, Fiji was as entitled as any other country to make its own laws as it saw fit.

Susan Boyd, a former Australian High Commissioner to Fiji, strongly criticized the legislation, but Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that it is an " internal matter " and that Australia does not want to get involved.

Qarase said that he had asked Australia to provide two or three experts to help with the establishment of the proposed Fiji Research Sugar Institute.

The then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that he would maintain his tough stance against Fiji in order to prevent a " coup culture " spreading around the Pacific.

" Chinese Ambassador Cai Jin Biao rejected this explanation, and said that the visit was a violation of the One China Policy, to which Fiji had agreed when diplomatic relations were established in 1975, which would " sabotage relations between China and Fiji.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ), was dispatched to Fiji and met Prime Minister Qarase during a brief stopover on 21 – 22 May, a move that Tavola said was not coincidental.

Helen Clark has said in the NZ Herald that she would consider sanctions against Fiji.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said that " Diplomatic relations with Fiji are roughly the same they have been for the last couple of years unfortunately " and that " we have had our ups and downs and unfortunately today they are down ".

On 29 June, Foreign Minister Tavola said that Fiji was " running out of patience " and that he was writing to the government of Vanuatu in what he called a " final gesture of friendship.

On 18 August, Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Authority chief executive Tevita Banuve said that importers would be given two weeks to clear their kava stock from the wharf.

Fiji Museum archaeologist Sepeti Matararaba said that the area beside the sea must have been occupied, because a great deal of pottery, hunting tools, and ancient shell jewellery had been discovered.

On 15 August, Qarase said that the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) had granted assistance to Fiji to develop its biofuels project.

Transformation of the Fiji Sugar Corporation into an energy and sugar company would result in a turnover of F $ 1 billion by 2025, he said, and would cut imports of crude oil, generate export earnings, and provide a source of electricity.

More than 31, 000 Australian companies were trading in the Pacific, half of them in Fiji, Bray said.

Incomes had improved, the report said, with Gross Domestic Product rising from F $ 5440 to F $ 5880, but other aspects of the quality of life enjoyed by Fiji Islanders had deteriorated.

It used to be said that boas are found in the New World and pythons in the Old World, but with boid species present in Madagascar, Fiji and the Solomon Islands, this is not quite accurate ; instead, it seems that they have survived in evolutionarily isolated areas.

" If the trend continues, Fiji will be left with a large pool of poorly educated, unskilled work force with disastrous consequences on our social and economic infrastructure and levels of investment ," he said in a statement on 19 June 2005.

He lamented the " indications of a growing feeling of insecurity, frustration and disaffection among people of all races at the direction in which Fiji appears to be headed ," and said that only way to reverse the trend was to elect a government that would provide stability, raise living standards, and create a climate of confidence for investors and opportunities for job seekers.

Speaking on 20 May, he said that a " culture of coups " had developed in Fiji and that it needed to be eradicated.

He had raised the issue with Om Prakash Chautala, he said, after being hounded by the media in both Fiji and India.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

`` Hettie '', he said as gently as he could, `` we're still headed west.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

Yet, I responded, could not similar things be said about the art of the past??

He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.

He said that the architect might reasonably be expected to carry his financial burdens if all harrassment could be brought to an end, and that the bank would accept a mortgage on Taliesin to help bring this about.

`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.

but he defended the doctrine in The Art Of Happiness, and what indeed could be said against the Epicurean virtues, health, frugality, privacy, culture and friendship??

`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

He said he could do it.

Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.

`` At least you could leave it for the movers '', Miss Ada said.

`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.

One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.

`` I'm sorry, Mrs. Minks '', Arlene said in a tone so low you could hardly hear it.