The Fiji Sun is a daily newspaper published in Fiji. Owned by Sun (Fiji) News Limited, it was first published in September 1999. An internet edition is also published.
The Fiji Sun website claims that the paper is wholly owned by Fijian nationals, and employs a total of 92 staff plus some forty sub-contractors.
In March 2008, the newspaper's publisher, Australian citizen Russell Hunter, was deported on the orders of the interim Defence Minister, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, who claimed that Hunter was a threat to "national security." Opponents of the military-backed government, which took power in a coup d'état in 2006, claim that it was a blatant attempt to intimidate the media.
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