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July 2021 Vol 47 No 7
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       4   Editor’s note                                    20  Real estate: Fiji- A buyer’s market
       5   View from the West                               22  Pacific Makete: SugarBee Fiji
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       6   Briefs                                           23  Using ‘food havens’ to reduce obesity among
 •      8  Whispers                                             Pacific and Māori peoples

       10  Fiji’s creative industries and COVID-19          24   Pleass Global: Celebrating 25 years of innova-

       12  Nauru determined to back deep sea mining             tion
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 •     13  Fiame prevails                                   28  Traditional knowledge: Science in a different
       14  Independence leader takes top job in New             dialect
           Caledonia                                        32  Inclusivity is expedient for PACER Plus

       16  USP’s regional students struggle to study        34  Profile: Mia Kami

       18  Debt traps and doing business                    36  Movers and Shakers






                                                            On the cover: This month’s cover is part of a recent work by Nadi-based artist
                                                            Sonny Misiolo Sofe. Sonny is an accomplished tattoo and visual artist.  His work
                                                            can be seen on Instagram @Yanuyanulife. Read more about how Sonny and other
                                                            Fiji artists and performers are responding to COVID-19 on page 10.



                                     French Polynesia .............. CPF500
              Australia ....................... AU$6.00
                                                                                       Solomon Islands ............. SL$30.00
          Australia ......................AU$10.00  Hawaii ........................US$10.00  New Caledonia ................ CPF500  Samoa ............................T10.00
                                                              New Zealand .................NZ$10.00
                                                                                       Tonga .............................P10.00
                                                              Niue ...........................NZ$10.00
                                     Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
              Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
          Cook Islands ..................NZ$10.00  Kiribati ........................AU$10.00  New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00  Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
          FSM ............................US$10.00  Marshall Islands .............US$10.00  Niue ............................ NZ$6.00  Tonga .............................P10.00
                                                                                       Tuvalu .........................AU$10.00
                                                              Palau ..........................US$10.00
              Federated States of Micronesia ......
                                     Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
                                     Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
              US$6.00
                                                              Papua New Guinea .............K15.00
                                                                                       Vanuatu ........................
          Fiji Islands.......................F$8.00  Nauru .........................AU$10.00  Palau ........................... US$6.00  Tuvalu .......................... AU$6.00 Vatu500
              Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35
                                     Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
          French Polynesia .............. CPF500  New Caledonia ................ CPF500  Papua New Guinea .............K10.00  Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
                                                              Samoa ............................T12.00
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